Venomized Cat
Creature — Symbiote Cat Villain
Deathtouch
When this creature enters, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Marvel's Spider-Man
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #13668
Venomized Cat puts a deathtouch body on the board and demands an answer before it trades up into something expensive. The cost of admission is trivial — this is a role-player that earns its slot specifically in Venom, Deadly Devourer builds where symbiote synergies compound quickly.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Venom, Deadly Devourer
Venom, Deadly Devourer wants every symbiote-adjacent piece it can get, and Venomized Cat slots in as a cheap deathtouch threat that feeds the commander's ability to grow and threaten combat.
Eddie Brock
Eddie Brock casts a wide net for symbiote creatures to trigger his text, and Venomized Cat is exactly the low-cost body that keeps the engine churning without eating into the mana budget.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Venomized Cat is a Commander card — full stop. In singleton formats it fills a tribal or theme slot without competing against redundant copies, which is the only context where a vanilla-adjacent two-drop with deathtouch justifies a deck slot. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Pioneer, a 1/1 deathtouch for two is well below rate; Swords to Plowshares and Fatal Push exist, and neither needs a Venomized Cat to race them. Pauper has enough cheap deathtouch creatures at common that this offers no edge there either. Play it in Commander if the symbiote theme demands it, and nowhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Venomized Cat is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card itself. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point almost never appreciate unless a new commander or mechanic pushes sudden demand, so treat it as a throw-in, not a pickup.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Venom, Deadly Devourer
- Eddie Brock
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.