Tribal Buffs

Amzu, Swarm's Hunger

Flying, menace
Other Insects you control have menace.
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, you may create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the greatest mana value among those cards. Do this only once each turn.

Vishgraz, the Doomhive

Menace, toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
When Vishgraz enters, create three 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature tokens with toxic 1 and "This token can't block."
Vishgraz gets +1/+1 for each poison counter your opponents have.

Land Combo

Retreat to Hagra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
• Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Crawling Sensation

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill two cards. (You may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere for the first time each turn, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

Hammer of Purphoros

Creatures you control have haste.
{2}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Create a 3/3 colorless Golem enchantment artifact creature token.

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.

Pestilent Souleater

{B/P}: This creature gains infect until end of turn. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life. A creature with infect deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Tunneling Geopede

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Forest

Conjurer's Closet Combo

Hornet Queen

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

Haunted Crossroads

{B}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Necropede

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
When this creature dies, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

The Swarmweaver

When The Swarmweaver enters, create two 1/1 black and green Insect creature tokens with flying.
Delirium — As long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, Insects and Spiders you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch.

Carrion Beetles

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

Spellbinder

Imprint — When this Equipment enters, you may exile an instant card from your hand.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Equip {4}

Wooded Ridgeline

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
This land enters tapped.

Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{G}.

Planar Bridge

{8}, {T}: Search your library for a permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Rise of the Ants

Create two 3/3 green Insect creature tokens. You gain 2 life.
Flashback {6}{G}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Reshape the Earth

Search your library for up to ten land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Everythingamajig

{2}, {T}: Move a counter from one permanent onto another. If the second permanent refers to any kind of counter, the moved counter becomes one of those counters. Otherwise, it becomes a +1/+1 counter.
{3}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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.

Battlefly Swarm

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

Duct Crawler

{1}{R}: Target creature can't block this creature this turn.

Bow of Nylea

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch.
{1}{G}, {T}: Choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• Bow of Nylea deals 2 damage to target creature with flying.
• You gain 3 life.
• Put up to four target cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library in any order.

Archdruid's Charm

Choose one —
• Search your library for a creature or land card and reveal it. Put it onto the battlefield tapped if it's a land card. Otherwise, put it into your hand. Then shuffle.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.
• Exile target artifact or enchantment.

The Hive

{5}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying named Wasp. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Giant Fan

{2}, {T}: Move a counter from one permanent onto another. If the second permanent refers to any kind of counter, the moved counter becomes one of those counters. Otherwise, it becomes a +1/+1 counter.

Zoological Study

Mill five cards, then return a creature card milled this way to your hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the artifact later from exile.)

Monster Manual

{1}{G}, {T}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Monster Manual // Zoological Study

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}

Hornet Cannon

{3}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying and haste named Hornet. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step.

Swarm Shambler

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.
{1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Broodhatch Nantuko

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you may create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens.
Morph {2}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Search for Blex

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put any number of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 3 life for each card you put into your hand this way.

Blex, Vexing Pest

Other Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders you control get +1/+1.
When Blex dies, you gain 4 life.

Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex

Trading Post

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: You gain 4 life.
{1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Barbed Shocker

Trample, haste
Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards.

Getting

Dormant Volcano

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Mountain you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{R}.

Crop Rotation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Phyrexian Swarmlord

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 green Phyrexian Insect creature token with infect for each poison counter your opponents have.

Contagion Clasp

When this artifact enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Horizon Stone

If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes colorless instead.

Invader Parasite

Imprint — When this creature enters, exile target land.
Whenever a land an opponent controls with the same name as the exiled card enters, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.

Dragonlair Spider

Reach
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

Restless Vents

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
{1}{B}{R}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/3 black and red Insect creature with menace. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

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.)

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Planar Portal

{6}, {T}: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Contagion Engine

When this artifact enters, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature target player controls.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate twice. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Then do it again.)

Patchwork Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Trigon of Infestation

This artifact enters with three charge counters on it.
{G}{G}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact.
{2}, {T}, Remove a charge counter from this artifact: Create a 1/1 green Phyrexian Insect creature token with infect.

Xira, the Golden Sting

Flying, haste
Whenever Xira attacks, put an egg counter on another target creature without an egg counter on it. When that creature dies, if it has an egg counter on it, draw a card and create a 1/1 black Insect creature token with flying.

Conjurer's Closet

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Crawling Infestation

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill two cards. (You may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere during your turn, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Carrion Call

Create two 1/1 green Phyrexian Insect creature tokens with infect. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

Flying
You may play lands from your graveyard.
Whenever you sacrifice another nontoken permanent during your turn, put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to Szarel's power on up to one other target creature.

Ghost Town

{T}: Add {C}.
{0}: Return this land to its owner's hand. Activate only if it's not your turn.

Conduit of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard.
{T}: Choose target nonland permanent card in your graveyard. If you haven't cast a spell this turn, you may cast that card. If you do, you can't cast additional spells this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Vanquisher's Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

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}.)

Banner of Kinship

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. This artifact enters with a fellowship counter on it for each creature you control of the chosen type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each fellowship counter on this artifact.

Cinder Glade

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Obelisk of Urd

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +2/+2.

Darigaaz's Caldera

When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return a non-Lair land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Altanak, the Thrice-Called

Trample
Whenever Altanak becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, draw a card.
{1}{G}, Discard this card: Return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Ebony Fly

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}: Roll a d6. Until end of turn, you may have this artifact become an X/X Insect artifact creature with flying, where X is the result.
Whenever this artifact attacks, another target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn.

Swarmyard

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

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.

Spelling Bee

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player looks at the top card of your library and chooses a word on that card. You spell that word. If you spell it correctly, draw a card. Otherwise, scry 1.

Wirefly Hive

{3}, {T}: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, create a 2/2 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying named Wirefly. If you lose the flip, destroy all permanents named Wirefly.

Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.)
Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Everglades

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Swamp you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{B}.

Dread

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.
When Dread is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Jungle Basin

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Forest you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{G}.

Army Ants

{T}, Sacrifice a land: Destroy target land.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Retreat to Valakut

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
• Target creature can't block this turn.

Door of Destinies

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on this artifact.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on this artifact.

Ant Queen

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

That Which Was Taken

{4}, {T}: Put a divinity counter on target permanent other than That Which Was Taken.
Each permanent with a divinity counter on it has indestructible.

Inkmoth Nexus

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: This land becomes a 1/1 Phyrexian Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying and infect until end of turn. It's still a land. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Beacon of Creation

Create a 1/1 green Insect creature token for each Forest you control. Shuffle Beacon of Creation into its owner's library.

Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.
{T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Retreat to Kazandu

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• You gain 2 life.

Infested Roothold

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Protection from artifacts
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact spell, you may create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Gruul Turf

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {R}{G}.

Plague Stinger

Flying
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Swamp

Haunted Mire

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
This land enters tapped.

Living Hive

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

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Savage Lands

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Grist, the Plague Swarm

+1: Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then mill two cards. Put a deathtouch counter on the token if a black card was milled this way.
−2: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
−6: For each creature card in your graveyard, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 1/1 black and green Insect.

Grist, Voracious Larva

Deathtouch
Whenever Grist or another creature you control enters, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, you may pay {G}. If you do, exile Grist, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control.