WhiteLegendary Artifact Creature — Phyrexian MiteSkrelv, Defector Mite
Mana value1Rank#1,130
The Commander
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Skrelv can't block.
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: Choose a color. Another target creature you control gains toxic 1 and hexproof from that color until end of turn. It can't be blocked by creatures of that color this turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
Guide
Gameplan
Skrelv is a one-mana white commander that protects your best threat and pushes damage through. You usually run him as a cheap commander in a Voltron or mono-white aggro shell, suiting up a single creature with auras/equipment and using Skrelv's activated ability to grant hexproof-from-a-color and evasion so it connects. Alternatively he anchors a poison/toxic plan, granting toxic 1 to your attackers to chip out opponents via infect-style proliferate.
Strengths
- Costs only one mana, so he's reliably available and can repeatedly protect your key creature from targeted removal
- Hexproof-from-a-color plus unblockable-by-a-color makes a suited-up threat extremely resilient and almost unstoppable in combat
- payment with life means you can protect even when tapped out or color-screwed
- Enables a sneaky alternate win through toxic/poison counters and proliferate
Weaknesses
- He can't block and dies to any removal himself, and the protection only covers one color per activation
- Mono-white means weak card draw, ramp, and interaction relative to other colors
- Voltron is inherently fragile to board wipes, edicts, and 'destroy all'/bounce effects that he can't stop
- Poison plans are slow and grindy without proliferate support, and he only grants toxic 1
Key Cards
- Swiftfoot Boots — Stacks haste and extra protection on your Voltron threat so it swings the turn it's equipped.
- Sigarda's Aid — Flash in equipment and auras at instant speed to dodge removal and ambush blockers.
- Shadowspear — Cheap equipment that grants trample so your protected, unblockable threat punches through chump blockers and removes opposing hexproof/indestructible.
- Skrelv's Hive — Generates a steady stream of toxic Mite tokens that synergize directly with the poison plan and provide bodies.
- Ajani, Sleeper Agent — A white planeswalker that proliferates poison counters and adds to a toxic-focused build.
- Inkmoth Nexus — A manland with infect that pairs with proliferate to threaten lethal poison alongside Skrelv's toxic creatures.
Upgrade Path
Lean fully into one plan: for Voltron add efficient protective equipment (Sword of Feast and Famine, Lightning Greaves) and game-ending auras while trimming fragile filler. For poison, load up on proliferate (Karn's Bastion, Evolution Sage), infect threats, and toxic creatures. In both cases, improve mono-white's weak spots with fast ramp (Sol Ring, mana rocks), card advantage like Esper Sentinel and Welcoming Vampire, and board-wipe insurance such as Teferi's Protection and Heroic Intervention-style effects.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Connecting with a heavily-equipped, evasive, hexproof Voltron creature for commander damage
- ▸Going wide with mono-white tokens backed by an anthem and alpha-striking
- ▸Accumulating 10 poison counters via toxic creatures plus proliferate
- ▸Granting unblockable to a large threat to close games out of nowhere
Archetypes
- Voltron — His repeatable hexproof-from-a-color and evasion make a single equipped/enchanted creature nearly impossible to remove or block.
- Mono-White Aggro — As a one-drop he deploys early and helps small creatures push damage through wide boards.
- Poison/Toxic — He grants toxic 1 to attackers and carries toxic himself, enabling a proliferate-fueled poison kill.
- Equipment Matters — His protection ability rewards stacking equipment and auras on one carrier without fear of removal.
Combos
- Yomiji, Who Bars the Way + Skrelv, Defector Mite + Phyrexian Altar
→ Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (W), by popularity.
