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Insect Commander
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Est deck cost: $403.59
Salt sum: 27.84
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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 (sld) 1417

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Creature

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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

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Land

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Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Land
Cavern of Souls (lci) 269
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (mkc) 256
Darkbore Pathway

Land
Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (khm) 254Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (khm) 254
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mh3) 308
Haunted Mire

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

Land
Haunted Mire (dmu) 248
Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Overgrown Tomb (rvr) 283
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (mkc) 279
Secluded Courtyard

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

Land
Secluded Courtyard (lcc) 350
Shifting Woodland

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest. {T}: Add {G}. Delirium — {2}{G}{G}: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Land
Shifting Woodland (mh3) 357
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mh3) 306
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.)

Land
Swarmyard (blc) 133
Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Land
Unclaimed Territory (lcc) 366
Underground Mortuary

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Underground Mortuary (mkm) 333
Undergrowth Stadium

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmm) 435
Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
Wastewood Verge

{T}: Add {G}. {T}: Add {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Forest.

Land
Wastewood Verge (dft) 374
Woodland Cemetery

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

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dsc) 326

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Ramp

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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.

Creature
Altanak, the Thrice-Called (dsk) 166
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (dsc) 174
Growing Rites of Itlimoc

Enchantment
Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (lci) 188Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (lci) 188
Hedge Shredder

Whenever this Vehicle attacks, you may mill two cards. Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from your library, put them onto the battlefield tapped. Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Artifact
Hedge Shredder (dsk) 183
Insidious Roots

Creature tokens you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.

Enchantment
Insidious Roots (mkm) 313
Nantuko Elder

{T}: Add {C}{G}.

Creature
Nantuko Elder (ody) 254
Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Three Visits (who) 235

Ramp

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Tokens

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Aatchik, Emerald Radian

When Aatchik enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token for each artifact and/or creature card in your graveyard. Whenever another Insect you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Aatchik. Each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Aatchik, Emerald Radian (dft) 187
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.

Creature
Amzu, Swarm's Hunger (clu) 24
Ant Queen

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

Creature
Ant Queen (mm2) 139
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.)

Creature
Broodhatch Nantuko (mkc) 167
Canoptek Scarab Swarm

Flying Feeder Mandibles — When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard. For each artifact or land card exiled this way, create a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying.

Creature Artifact
Canoptek Scarab Swarm (40k) 150
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 (sld) 1415
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 (scd) 189
Hornet Queen

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

Creature
Hornet Queen (mkc) 172
Saber Ants

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you may create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens.

Creature
Saber Ants (mmq) 267
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.

Creature Artifact
The Swarmweaver (dsk) 363

Tokens

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Anthem

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Sylvan Anthem

Green creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever a green creature you control enters, scry 1.

Enchantment
Sylvan Anthem (mh2) 176

Anthem

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Draw

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Circuit Mender

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Circuit Mender (j22) 760
Fecundity

Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller may draw a card.

Enchantment
Fecundity (sld) 1714
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed

Undergrowth — When Izoni enters, create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token for each creature card in your graveyard. {B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed (grn) 180
Nantuko Cultivator

When this creature enters, you may discard any number of land cards. Put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature and draw that many cards.

Creature
Nantuko Cultivator (j22) 694
Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (m21) 117
Return of the Wildspeaker

Choose one — • Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control. • Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

Instant
Return of the Wildspeaker (mkc) 181
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (moc) 379
Stirge

Flying This creature can't block. Blood Drain — {1}{B}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Stirge (clb) 150
Warlock Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, each opponent loses 1 life. {1}{B}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. {6}{B}: Level 3 At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Enchantment
Warlock Class (afr) 125

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Landfall

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Scute Swarm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that's a copy of this creature instead.

Creature
Scute Swarm (dsc) 197
Springheart Nantuko

Bestow {1}{G} Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay {1}{G} if this permanent is attached to a creature you control. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature. If you didn't create a token this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

Creature Enchantment
Springheart Nantuko (mh3) 171

Landfall

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Recursion

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Bone Harvest

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Bone Harvest (mir) 108
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.

Artifact
Conduit of Worlds (one) 163
Footbottom Feast

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

Instant
Footbottom Feast (cmd) 84
Forever Young

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Forever Young (eld) 89
Gravepurge

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

Instant
Gravepurge (plst) DTK-104
Reclaim

Put target card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Instant
Reclaim (exo) 120
Splendid Reclamation

Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Splendid Reclamation (vow) 221
Spring-Leaf Avenger

Ninjutsu {3}{G} ({3}{G}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Spring-Leaf Avenger (neo) 208
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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Artifact

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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.

Artifact
Banner of Kinship (fdn) 127

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Evasion

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Battlefly Swarm

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

Creature
Battlefly Swarm (dmu) 81

Evasion

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Mill

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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.

Enchantment
Crawling Infestation (cmm) 281
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.

Enchantment
Crawling Sensation (j22) 642
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 (j22) 691

Mill

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Removal

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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
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
Caustic Caterpillar

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

Creature
Caustic Caterpillar (j22) 86
Grist, Voracious Larva

Creature
Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 472Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 472
Kraul Whipcracker

Reach When this creature enters, destroy target token an opponent controls.

Creature
Kraul Whipcracker (mkm) 213
Masked Vandal

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) When this creature enters, you may exile a creature card from your graveyard. If you do, exile target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.

Creature
Masked Vandal (khm) 184
Nameless Inversion

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Target creature gets +3/-3 and loses all creature types until end of turn.

Instant Kindred
Nameless Inversion (mm2) 87
Nantuko Vigilante

Morph {1}{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.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Nantuko Vigilante (mkc) 177
Nullmage Advocate

{T}: Return two target cards from an opponent's graveyard to their hand. Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Nullmage Advocate (pca) 70

Removal

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Counters

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Bloodline Pretender

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As this creature enters, choose a creature type. Whenever another creature you control of the chosen type enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Bloodline Pretender (moc) 350
Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest

Flying Whenever a player sacrifices another permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest (sld) 1766
Metallic Mimic

As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Each other creature you control of the chosen type enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Metallic Mimic (inr) 268
Mortician Beetle

Whenever a player sacrifices a creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Mortician Beetle (mm3) 78
Scute Mob

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control five or more lands, put four +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Scute Mob (c18) 161
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 (j22) 127
Vorapede

Vigilance, trample Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Vorapede (c20) 195

Counters

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Finisher

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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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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
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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Sac Outlet

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Devouring Swarm

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

Creature
Devouring Swarm (j22) 401
Dross Hopper

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

Creature
Dross Hopper (som) 60
Nantuko Husk

Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature
Nantuko Husk (ori) 109

Sac Outlet

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Maybeboard

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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
Haywire Mite

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life. {G}, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.

Creature Artifact
Haywire Mite (dsc) 247
Realmwalker

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As this creature enters, choose a creature type. You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells of the chosen type from the top of your library.

Creature
Realmwalker (lcc) 250
Search for Tomorrow

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two 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.)

Sorcery
Search for Tomorrow (dmc) 137

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Tokens & Extras

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Copy

(This token can be used to represent a token that's a copy of a permanent.)

Token
Copy (tdsk) 1
Insect

Flying

Creature Token
Insect (tdmu) 7
Insect

Creature Token
Insect (tdsc) 11
Insect

Flying, deathtouch

Creature Token
Insect (tdsc) 12
Insect

Creature Token
Insect (tdsc) 22
Morph

(You can cover a face-down creature with this reminder card. A card with morph can be turned face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature
Morph (tmkc) 30
Plant

Creature Token
Plant (tmh3) 42

Tokens & Extras

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