Agent Venom
Legendary Creature — Symbiote Soldier Hero
Flash
Menace
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Through the Omenpaths
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #7195
Agent Venom arrives with a Symbiote counter on it and puts another on Eddie Brock whenever a creature you control dies — that death-trigger engine is the whole reason it exists. The mana cost is reasonable for what it does, and in any deck that wants counters on Eddie Brock piling up fast, Agent Venom is a near-automatic include.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Eddie Brock
Eddie Brock is the natural home — Agent Venom feeds him a Symbiote counter on entry and another every time a creature dies, accelerating the payoff Eddie Brock is built around. At 44% inclusion across nearly 8,000 decks, the synergy rate reflects how central Agent Venom is to that engine.
Venom, Deadly Devourer
Venom, Deadly Devourer wants creatures dying and counters accumulating, and Agent Venom delivers both in one card. The death trigger lines up cleanly with what Venom, Deadly Devourer is trying to do, which explains the 33% inclusion rate.
Ratadrabik of Urborg
Ratadrabik of Urborg copies legendary creatures as tokens when they die, and Agent Venom is a legendary creature worth copying — each loop can retrigger the Symbiote counter placement. The 16% inclusion rate reflects a real but narrower fit compared to the Symbiote-tribal shells.
Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn
Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn cares about counters and creatures entering or dying, and Agent Venom checks both boxes on a single body. At 11% inclusion it's a supporting role, but a consistent one whenever the deck wants redundant counter-generating creatures.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Agent Venom is built for Commander — the death-trigger loop rewards the longer games and multiplayer battlefields where creatures die constantly, and a critical mass of Symbiote synergies only exists in the singleton 100-card format. In constructed formats like Standard, Pioneer, and Modern, Agent Venom lacks the tribal infrastructure to compete at a meaningful rate; it's a parasitic card without its web. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal but have no interest in a three-mana 2/2 that needs a support structure those formats don't offer. Play Agent Venom in Commander and only Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
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Sources
Mentioned
- Eddie Brock
- Venom, Deadly Devourer
- Ratadrabik of Urborg
- Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.