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Epic Experiment - Locust God Stax - Epic Locust God Stax
Deck Size: 99
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $554.01
Salt Sum: 59.72
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $6.49
The Locust God

Flying Whenever you draw a card, create a 1/1 blue and red Insect creature token with flying and haste. {2}{U}{R}: Draw a card, then discard a card. When The Locust God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
The Locust God (moc) 335
1

Artifacts

Quantity: 21Price: $67.43
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (plst) EMA-218
1
Blasting Station

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Blasting Station deals 1 damage to any target. Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you may untap Blasting Station.

Artifact
Blasting Station (plst) 5DN-107
1
Coalition Relic

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Put a charge counter on Coalition Relic. At the beginning of your precombat main phase, remove all charge counters from Coalition Relic. Add one mana of any color for each charge counter removed this way.

Artifact
Coalition Relic (dmc) 180
1
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (moc) 352
1
Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Artifact
Crawlspace (dmr) 217
1
Cursed Totem

Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated.

Artifact
Cursed Totem (mh2) 295
1
Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (moc) 356
1
Gilded Lotus

{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (dom) 215
1
Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Hedron Archive: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Hedron Archive (moc) 359
1
Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When Isochron Scepter enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand. {2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
Isochron Scepter (plst) MRD-188
1
Izzet Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Artifact
Izzet Signet (moc) 362
1
Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Artifact
Meekstone (7ed) 307★
1
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (moc) 364
1
Pithing Needle

As Pithing Needle enters the battlefield, choose a card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Artifact
Pithing Needle (2x2) 312
1
Relic of Progenitus

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard. {1}, Exile Relic of Progenitus: Exile all graveyards. Draw a card.

Artifact
Relic of Progenitus (brc) 157
1
Silent Gravestone

Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities. {4}, {T}: Exile Silent Gravestone and all cards from all graveyards. Draw a card.

Artifact
Silent Gravestone (rix) 182
1
Skullclamp

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

Artifact
Skullclamp (moc) 379
1
Smokestack

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on Smokestack. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent for each soot counter on Smokestack.

Artifact
Smokestack (plst) USG-309
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
1
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (scd) 285
1
Thran Dynamo

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

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (brc) 168
1

Creatures

Quantity: 5Price: $110.25
Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
1
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

When you cast this spell, draw four cards. Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents.) When Kozilek, Butcher of Truth is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Creature
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth (2x2) 2
1
Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature
Laboratory Maniac (plst) ISD-61
1
Purphoros, God of the Forge

Indestructible As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, Purphoros deals 2 damage to each opponent. {2}{R}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Purphoros, God of the Forge (plst) THS-135
1
Trophy Mage

When Trophy Mage enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 3, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Trophy Mage (ddu) 42
1

Enchantments

Quantity: 7Price: $89.73
As Foretold

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on As Foretold. Once each turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for a spell you cast with mana value X or less, where X is the number of time counters on As Foretold.

Enchantment
As Foretold (2x2) 38
1
Blood Moon

Nonbasic lands are Mountains.

Enchantment
Blood Moon (plst) A25-122
1
Opposition

Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Enchantment
Opposition (dmr) 62
1
Overburden

Whenever a player puts a nontoken creature onto the battlefield, that player returns a land they control to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Overburden (pcy) 39
1
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (clb) 730
1
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
1
Stranglehold

Your opponents can't search libraries. If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.

Enchantment
Stranglehold (cma) 87
1

Instants

Quantity: 20Price: $100.82
Abrade

Choose one — • Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature. • Destroy target artifact.

Instant
Abrade (scd) 122
1
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (voc) 102
1
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (moc) 273
1
Commit

Instant
Commit // Memory (ncc) 216
1
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 45
1
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 47
1
Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Instant
Dramatic Reversal (kld) 44
1
Firemind's Foresight

Search your library for an instant card with mana value 3, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then repeat this process for instant cards with mana values 2 and 1. Then shuffle.

Instant
Firemind's Foresight (dds) 21
1
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (dmr) 51
1
Magmaquake

Magmaquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each planeswalker.

Instant
Magmaquake (scd) 149
1
Muddle the Mixture

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Instant
Muddle the Mixture (plst) RAV-60
1
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 60
1
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
1
Opt

Scry 1. Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (j22) 332
1
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (tsr) 79
1
Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant
Rapid Hybridization (c21) 126
1
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (moc) 231
1
Supreme Will

Choose one — • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Supreme Will (cmr) 102
1
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (c16) 98
1
Whir of Invention

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Whir of Invention (plst) AER-49
1

Lands

Quantity: 35Price: $159.07
Cascade Bluffs

{T}: Add {C}. {U/R}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Cascade Bluffs (ncc) 390
1
Desolate Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}{R}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Land
Desolate Lighthouse (clb) 890
1
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (moc) 397
1
Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Flooded Strand (ktk) 233
1
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Ghost Quarter: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (plst) CM2-253
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
13
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mom) 280
7
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
1
Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Shivan Reef (dmu) 255
1
Spirebluff Canal

Spirebluff Canal enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Spirebluff Canal (kld) 249
1
Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) As Steam Vents enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Steam Vents (grn) 257
1
Strip Mine

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Strip Mine: Destroy target land.

Land
Strip Mine (4ed) 363
1
Sulfur Falls

Sulfur Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Sulfur Falls (dmr) 258
1
Temple of Epiphany

Temple of Epiphany enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Epiphany enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Epiphany (moc) 433
1
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (moc) 439
1
Wandering Fumarole

Wandering Fumarole enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. {2}{U}{R}: Until end of turn, Wandering Fumarole becomes a 1/4 blue and red Elemental creature with "{0}: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn." It's still a land.

Land
Wandering Fumarole (clb) 928
1
Wooded Foothills

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

Land
Wooded Foothills (ktk) 249
1

Sorceries

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Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (scd) 124
1
By Force

Destroy X target artifacts.

Sorcery
By Force (akh) 123
1
Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.

Sorcery
Chain Reaction (onc) 97
1
Compulsive Research

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.

Sorcery
Compulsive Research (clb) 715
1
Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards. Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Deep Analysis (dmr) 46
1
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (ncc) 229
1
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Preordain (j22) 63
1
Serum Visions

Draw a card. Scry 2.

Sorcery
Serum Visions (j22) 345
1
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (ncc) 237
1
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (scd) 167
1

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