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Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Angel
Ixhel wants a deck that wins with poison counters instead of damage. It leads the ready-made Corrupting Influence deck (2023).
- Mana cost
- White, Black, Green ()
- Power / toughness2 / 5
- RarityMythic
Flying, vigilance, toxic 2
Corrupted — At the beginning of your end step, each opponent who has three or more poison counters exiles the top card of their library face down. You may look at and play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.
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Cards That Fit Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa
Picked for what they do in Ixhel's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Ixhel's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.
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Decks Led by Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa
Ixhel leads a ready-made deck.PreconShort for preconstructed deck: a ready-to-play deck sold in a box by Wizards of the Coast. A Commander precon comes with its commander and all 100 cards, so you can play it straight away and change cards later.Open the full glossary
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Corrupting InfluenceOfficial precon
All 100 Cards
Commander · 1
Creatures · 22
- 1×Bilious Skulldweller
- 1×Blight Mamba
- 1×Blightbelly Rat
- 1×Cankerbloom
- 1×Contaminant Grafter
- 1×Evolution Sage
- 1×Glissa's Retriever
- 1×Grateful Apparition
- 1×Ichor Rats
- 1×Ichorclaw Myr
- 1×Mycosynth Fiend
- 1×Myr Convert
- 1×Norn's Choirmaster
- 1×Pestilent Syphoner
- 1×Phyrexian Swarmlord
- 1×Plague Myr
- 1×Plague Stinger
- 1×Scavenging Ooze
- 1×Venomous Brutalizer
- 1×Viridian Corrupter
- 1×Vishgraz, the Doomhive
- 1×Windborn Muse
Instants · 7
Sorceries · 17
Artifacts · 12
Enchantments · 3
Lands · 38
- 1×Bojuka Bog
- 1×Canopy Vista
- 1×Command Tower
- 1×Exotic Orchard
- 8×Forest
- 1×Fortified Village
- 1×Karn's Bastion
- 1×Krosan Verge
- 1×Myriad Landscape
- 1×Necroblossom Snarl
- 1×Path of Ancestry
- 6×Plains
- 1×Sandsteppe Citadel
- 1×Shineshadow Snarl
- 1×Sungrass Prairie
- 6×Swamp
- 1×Tainted Field
- 1×Tainted Wood
- 1×Temple of Malady
- 1×Temple of Plenty
- 1×Temple of Silence
Rulings for Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa
explain how Ixhel works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary
A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game. This is a state-based action and doesn't use the stack. In other words, it happens immediately and players can't respond to it, just like a player losing the game due to having 0 or less life.
Any other effects of that damage, such as life gain from lifelink, still apply.
Casting an exiled card causes it to leave exile. You can't cast it multiple times.
Conversely, replacement effects that apply to the number of counters put on a player can modify the counters placed this way. For example, Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider's last two abilities can apply to counters placed this way.
Damage dealt by a creature with toxic grants the same number of counters regardless of how much damage is dealt. Notably, if a replacement effect modifies the damage in some way (such as that of Gratuitous Violence), the number of counters given remains unchanged.
If a creature with toxic deals combat damage to a creature or planeswalker, or if it deals noncombat damage, toxic has no effect and no player gets poison counters.
If you leave the game, the cards remain exiled face down indefinitely. No player may look at them.
Ixhel doesn't change when you can cast an exiled card. For example, if you exile a creature card without flash, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
Multiple instances of toxic are cumulative. For example, if a creature has toxic 2 and gains toxic 1 due to another effect, combat damage that creature deals to a player will cause that player to get 3 poison counters.
Toxic doesn't change the amount of combat damage a creature deals. For example, if a 2/2 creature with toxic 1 deals combat damage to a player, that creature will deal 2 damage. The results of that damage are the player loses 2 life and gets a poison counter.
You may look at and cast the exiled cards (and spend mana as though it were mana of any color to do so) even if Ixhel leaves the battlefield. If another player gains control of Ixhel, that player can't look at or cast the cards, and you still can.
You pay the costs for an exiled card if you cast it. You may pay any alternative costs the card has rather than the card's mana cost.
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