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Swarm Intelligence
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $97.27
Salt sum: 17.72
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Commander

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Grist, the Hunger Tide

As long as Grist isn't on the battlefield, it's a 1/1 Insect creature in addition to its other types. +1: Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then mill a card. If an Insect card was milled this way, put a loyalty counter on Grist and repeat this process. −2: You may sacrifice a creature. When you do, destroy target creature or planeswalker. −5: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Planeswalker
Grist, the Hunger Tide (mh2) 306

Commander

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Attacker

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Battlefly Swarm

Flying {B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Battlefly Swarm (dmu) 81
Flow of Maggots

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) This creature can't be blocked by non-Wall creatures.

Creature
Flow of Maggots (ice) 125

Attacker

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Bounce

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Invasive Species

When this creature enters, return another permanent you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Invasive Species (m15) 181

Bounce

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Counters

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Adaptive Shimmerer

Flash This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Adaptive Shimmerer (iko) 1
Bond Beetle

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Bond Beetle (m13) 161
Deadbridge Goliath

Scavenge {4}{G}{G} ({4}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Deadbridge Goliath (rtr) 120
Deadly Grub

Vanishing 3 (This creature enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) When this creature dies, if it had no time counters on it, create a 6/1 green Insect creature token with shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Deadly Grub (plc) 69
Duskshell Crawler

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Duskshell Crawler (clu) 161
Fretwork Colony

This creature can't block. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Fretwork Colony (kld) 83
Ironshell Beetle

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Ironshell Beetle (jmp) 405
Nessian Hornbeetle

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control another creature with power 4 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Nessian Hornbeetle (fdn) 229
Swarm of Bloodflies

Flying This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Swarm of Bloodflies (jmp) 282

Counters

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Creature

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Carrion Ants

{1}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Carrion Ants (5ed) 150
Coiling Woodworm

Coiling Woodworm's power is equal to the number of Forests on the battlefield.

Creature
Coiling Woodworm (nem) 103
Colossapede

Creature
Colossapede (akh) 161
Deadly Insect

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Deadly Insect (mmq) 238
Drudge Beetle

Scavenge {5}{G} ({5}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Drudge Beetle (rvr) 136
Dune Beetle

Creature
Dune Beetle (akh) 89
Emerald Dragonfly

Flying {G}{G}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Creature
Emerald Dragonfly (chr) 63
Fog of Gnats

Flying {B}: Regenerate this creature.

Creature
Fog of Gnats (ulg) 53
Giant Caterpillar

{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Create a 1/1 green Insect creature token with flying named Butterfly at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Giant Caterpillar (mmq) 249
Giant Cockroach

Creature
Giant Cockroach (9ed) 133
Giant Dustwasp

Flying Suspend 4—{1}{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{G} and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Creature
Giant Dustwasp (tsr) 206
Giant Mantis

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Creature
Giant Mantis (bfz) 173
Golgari Longlegs

Creature
Golgari Longlegs (rtr) 216
Goliath Beetle

Trample

Creature
Goliath Beetle (uds) 107
Hawkeater Moth

Flying Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Hawkeater Moth (usg) 259
Jagwasp Swarm

Flying

Creature
Jagwasp Swarm (wwk) 58
Krotiq Nestguard

Defender {2}{G}: This creature can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.

Creature
Krotiq Nestguard (tdm) 148
Mind Maggots

When this creature enters, discard any number of creature cards. For each card discarded this way, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Mind Maggots (exo) 66

Creature

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Discard

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Brain Weevil

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Sacrifice this creature: Target player discards two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Brain Weevil (ddj) 58
Gigapede

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard, you may discard a card. If you do, return this card to your hand.

Creature
Gigapede (ons) 264

Discard

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Draw

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Grave-Shell Scarab

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card. Dredge 1 (If you would draw a card, you may mill a card instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Creature
Grave-Shell Scarab (rav) 211

Draw

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Evasion

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Bayou Dragonfly

Flying; swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

Creature
Bayou Dragonfly (tmp) 215

Evasion

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Finisher

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Crash of Rhino Beetles

Trample This creature gets +10/+10 as long as you control ten or more lands.

Creature
Crash of Rhino Beetles (cmm) 279
Huskburster Swarm

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card you own in exile and in your graveyard. Menace, deathtouch

Creature
Huskburster Swarm (blb) 98

Finisher

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Land

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Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mh2) 489
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mh2) 486
Twilight Mire

{T}: Add {C}. {B/G}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{G}, or {G}{G}.

Land
Twilight Mire (2xm) 328
Viridescent Bog

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Viridescent Bog (dsc) 324
Woodland Cemetery

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (pip) 316

Land

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Landfall

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Caustic Crawler

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have target creature get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Caustic Crawler (wwk) 54
Kazandu Nectarpot

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kazandu Nectarpot (znr) 190

Landfall

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Lifedrain

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Delta Bloodflies

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, if you control a creature with a counter on it, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Delta Bloodflies (tdm) 77

Lifedrain

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Mill

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Carrion Grub

This creature gets +X/+0, where X is the greatest power among creature cards in your graveyard. When this creature enters, mill four cards. (Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Carrion Grub (dsc) 134
Moldgraf Millipede

When this creature enters, mill three cards, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each creature card in your graveyard. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Moldgraf Millipede (inr) 208

Mill

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Protection

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Blightbeetle

Protection from green (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything green.) Creatures your opponents control can't have +1/+1 counters put on them.

Creature
Blightbeetle (m20) 87
Giant Ankheg

Trample Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) Other creatures you control have trample and ward {2}.

Creature
Giant Ankheg (clb) 233
Pincher Beetles

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Pincher Beetles (10e) 285
Xantid Swarm

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, defending player can't cast spells this turn.

Creature
Xantid Swarm (ema) 193

Protection

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Ramp

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Giant Ladybug

Reach When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Creature
Giant Ladybug (j22) 39
Loam Larva

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Creature
Loam Larva (ogw) 135
Quarry Beetle

When this creature enters, you may return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Quarry Beetle (hou) 127
Spineseeker Centipede

When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Delirium — This creature gets +1/+2 and has vigilance as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Spineseeker Centipede (dsk) 199

Ramp

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Recursion

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Brood of Cockroaches

When this creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of the next end step, you lose 1 life and return this card to your hand.

Creature
Brood of Cockroaches (vis) 53
Durable Coilbug

{4}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Durable Coilbug (iko) 85
Endless Cockroaches

When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Creature
Endless Cockroaches (c13) 75
Gleancrawler

({B/G} can be paid with either {B} or {G}.) Trample At the beginning of your end step, return to your hand all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Creature
Gleancrawler (ddj) 64
Life from the Loam

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Sorcery
Life from the Loam (rvr) 434
Zask, Skittering Swarmlord

You may play lands and cast Insect spells from your graveyard. Whenever another Insect you control dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library, then mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) {1}{B/G}: Target Insect gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. ({B/G} can be paid with either {B} or {G}.)

Creature
Zask, Skittering Swarmlord (j22) 47

Recursion

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Removal

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Ambush Gigapede

Flash When this creature enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Ambush Gigapede (otj) 77
Bane of the Living

Morph {X}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Creature
Bane of the Living (c19) 104
Blister Beetle

When this creature enters, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Blister Beetle (ala) 66
Brain Maggot

When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card until this creature leaves the battlefield.

Creature Enchantment
Brain Maggot (jou) 62
Carrion Beetles

{2}{B}, {T}: Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.

Creature
Carrion Beetles (usg) 122
Carrion Locust

Flying When this creature enters, exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If it was a creature card, that player loses 1 life.

Creature
Carrion Locust (bro) 87
Caustic Caterpillar

{1}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Caustic Caterpillar (ori) 170
Caustic Wasps

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may destroy target artifact that player controls.

Creature
Caustic Wasps (mmq) 234
Flesh Burrower

Deathtouch Whenever this creature attacks, another target creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Flesh Burrower (dsk) 178
Foundry Hornet

Flying When this creature enters, if you control a creature with a +1/+1 counter on it, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Foundry Hornet (aer) 59
Grist, Voracious Larva

Creature
Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 446Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 446
Heartstabber Mosquito

Kicker {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell.) Flying When this creature enters, if it was kicked, destroy target creature.

Creature
Heartstabber Mosquito (ddp) 52
Plague Fiend

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature unless its controller pays {2}.

Creature
Plague Fiend (pcy) 73
Skittering Heartstopper

{B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Skittering Heartstopper (xln) 122

Removal

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Sac Outlet

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Devouring Swarm

Flying Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Devouring Swarm (m12) 91
Dross Hopper

Sacrifice a creature: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Dross Hopper (som) 60

Sac Outlet

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Tokens

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Ant Queen

{1}{G}: Create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

Creature
Ant Queen (mm2) 139
Fumulus, the Infestation

Flying, deathtouch Whenever a player sacrifices a nontoken creature, create a 1/1 black Insect creature token with flying. Whenever an Insect, Leech, Slug, or Worm you control attacks, defending player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Fumulus, the Infestation (j25) 42
Giant Adephage

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Giant Adephage (dsc) 179
Hornet Nest

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt damage, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Hornet Nest (tdc) 259
Hornet Queen

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, create four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch.

Creature
Hornet Queen (dsc) 184
Iridescent Hornbeetle

At the beginning of your end step, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token for each +1/+1 counter you've put on creatures under your control this turn.

Creature
Iridescent Hornbeetle (j22) 678
Living Hive

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens.

Creature
Living Hive (hop) 75

Tokens

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Untap

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Locust Swarm

Flying {G}: Regenerate this creature. {G}: Untap this creature. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Locust Swarm (mir) 226

Untap

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Maybeboard

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Decimator Beetle

When this creature enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature you control. Whenever this creature attacks, remove a -1/-1 counter from target creature you control and put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature defending player controls.

Creature
Decimator Beetle (akh) 197

Maybeboard

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{"ops":[{"insert":"\"A never-ending swarm of insects, feeding on itself as quickly and mindlessly as it feeds on all around it. Amidst the swarm, Grist moves to and fro, guiding the endless swarms in devastating direction in order to consume and grow.\"\n\nCast Grist and mill in order to quickly grow loyalty counters and put creatures in the graveyard to deal mass life loss against opponents. Use the swarm to act as a buffer between Grist and enemies, while pulling lands out of the graveyard to offset commander tax and to keep the horde alive. \n"}]}
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