It was quite a simple deck idea really: Infect.
When looking at making an “Infect” I had in my mind a green/black deck, but I looked at the cards I had and I didn’t have enough creatures with infect. So I considered something I don’t often consider, and that is to add a third colour. I’m not a fan of three or more colours in a deck, unless there is the upmost need for it. Once I had looked through my blue cards I realised that I do need blue in the deck as well.
Choosing to use blue also opened up a space for Defender creatures, which I don’t usually use either but I’ve never looked at Infect as a strong defence.
When looking back through my blue cards I had to have these cards in my deck: “Chained Throatseeker” 
– a nice big creature, but it can’t attack unless the opponent is poisoned, but this should be a problem with the un-blockable ability provided by “Blighted Agent”
he should get the poison counter that is needed.
I also put in some “Guard Gomazoa” cards, purely for a strong defence as all combat damage dealt to it is prevented.
The majority of this deck is green, which as you might expect, this is the best place to find a big creature; for example “Phyrexian Hydra”.
Over half of the green cards in this deck are actually spells, which is very unlike my usual style of building a deck. Typically I have used cards including “Cultivate”, “Journey of Discovery” and “Harrow”, merely to get all three colours into play.
Green is good for pump up spells, and there are plenty here, even an old favourite, “Giant Growth”.
I also included “Naturalize”
and to deal with flying, “Pistus Strike” – which destroys, then gives the controller a poison counter.
The very few black cards in this deck are all creatures.
The artefact cards I used are evenly weighted with creatures, equipment and general means of gaining mana.
I put a wild card into the deck too. “Vigean Hydropon”. 
The hope here being that this would be case before “Blighted Agent”, just to give it that extra +1/+1 from the Graft effect.
Poison Ivy Deck List:
Blue Creatures:
Wall of Frost
Guard Gomazoa x2
Blighted Agent x4
Chained Throatseeker x2
Green Creatures:
Viridian Betrayers x2
Glistener Elf x2
Blightwidow
Rot Wolf
Phyrexian Hydra
Black Creatures:
Septic Rats
Contagious Nim x2
Blackcleave Goblin
Flensermite
Plague Stinger
Artefact Creatures:
Phyrexian Digester
Ichorclaw Myr
Vector Asp
Other Creatures:
Vigean Hydropon
Other Blue:
Defensive Stance
Drake Umbra
Eel Umbra
Other Green:
Pistus Strike
Plummet
Naturalize x2
Giant Growth
Unnatural Predation
Savage Silhouette
Fistful of Force
Earthbrawn x2
Harrow
Journey of Discovery x2
Cultivate
Other Artefact:
Vorrac Battlehorns
Strider Harness x2
Diviner’s Wand
Prophetic Prism
Coldsteel Heart
Armillary Sphere
Land:
Island x7
Forest x7
Swamp x7
Simic Growth Chamber x2
Terramorphic Expanse
Evolving Wilds
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