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The Swarm
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $305.64
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Commander

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Grist, Voracious Larva

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

Commander

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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
Demolisher Spawn

Trample, haste Delirium — Whenever this creature attacks, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, other attacking creatures get +4/+4 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Demolisher Spawn (dsc) 31
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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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
Grisly Salvage

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

Instant
Grisly Salvage (dsc) 219
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
Old Rutstein

When Old Rutstein enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If a land card is milled this way, create a Treasure token. If a creature card is milled this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If a noncreature, nonland card is milled this way, create a Blood token.

Creature
Old Rutstein (vow) 244

Mill

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Removal

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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) 368
Kraul Harpooner

Reach Undergrowth — When this creature enters, choose up to one target creature you don't control with flying. This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard, then you may have this creature fight that creature.

Creature
Kraul Harpooner (clu) 167
Kraul Whipcracker

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

Creature
Kraul Whipcracker (mkm) 213

Removal

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Counters

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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 (plst) 2XM-209
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 (j25) 492
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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Infect

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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.

Creature
Phyrexian Swarmlord (onc) 111

Infect

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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
Gnaw to the Bone

You gain 2 life for each creature card in your graveyard. Flashback {2}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Gnaw to the Bone (isd) 183
Lull

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Lull (a25) 180
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

Sac Outlet

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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
Mortipede

{2}{G}: All creatures able to block this creature this turn do so.

Creature
Mortipede (rav) 96
Skittering Heartstopper

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

Creature
Skittering Heartstopper (xln) 122

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Land

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Darkbore Pathway

Land
Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (khm) 254Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (khm) 254
Deathcap Glade

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Deathcap Glade (inr) 275
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mh2) 490
Golgari Guildgate

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

Land
Golgari Guildgate (rvr) 278
Haunted Mire

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

Land
Haunted Mire (dmu) 248
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.)

Land
Karn's Bastion (war) 248
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (blc) 315
Necroblossom Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Necroblossom Snarl (blc) 319
Nurturing Peatland

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B} or {G}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Nurturing Peatland (mh1) 243
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 (pgrn) 253p
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 (cmm) 661
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) 228
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mh2) 485
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
Tainted Wood

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

Land
Tainted Wood (dsc) 305
Twilight Mire

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

Land
Twilight Mire (blc) 351
Undergrowth Stadium

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

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmm) 620
Viridescent Bog

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

Land
Viridescent Bog (otc) 340
Woodland Cemetery

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

Land
Woodland Cemetery (otc) 341

Land

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 653
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 (blc) 212
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
Vorinclex

Creature
Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution (mom) 301Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution (mom) 301

Ramp

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Tokens

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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
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
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 (clu) 164
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 (plst) M15-177
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
The Hunger Tide Rises

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.) I, II, III — Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token. IV — Sacrifice any number of creatures. Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of creatures sacrificed this way and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Enchantment
The Hunger Tide Rises (mh3) 158

Tokens

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Draw

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Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (onc) 121
Skullclamp

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

Artifact
Skullclamp (blc) 283
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (inr) 137

Draw

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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) 341

Landfall

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Recursion

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Blood for Bones

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then return another creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Blood for Bones (m20) 89
Coiling Rebirth

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Then if the gift was promised and that creature isn't legendary, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1.

Sorcery
Coiling Rebirth (blb) 309
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
Deadbridge Chant

When this enchantment enters, mill ten cards. At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a card at random in your graveyard. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Enchantment
Deadbridge Chant (dsc) 215
Diregraf Rebirth

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature that died this turn. Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback {5}{B}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Diregraf Rebirth (mid) 220
Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Dread Return (cmm) 153
Footbottom Feast

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

Instant
Footbottom Feast (lrw) 115
Gravepurge

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

Instant
Gravepurge (plst) DTK-104
Journey to Eternity

Enchantment
Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity (plst) RIX-160Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity (plst) RIX-160
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) 148
Moldgraf Monstrosity

Trample When this creature dies, exile it, then return two creature cards at random from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Moldgraf Monstrosity (dsc) 83
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (mkc) 137
Reincarnation

Choose target creature. When that creature dies this turn, return a creature card from its owner's graveyard to the battlefield under the control of that creature's owner.

Instant
Reincarnation (c13) 166
Return Upon the Tide

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If it's an Elf, create two 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens. Foretell {3}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sorcery
Return Upon the Tide (khm) 106
Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (mul) 16
Six

Reach Whenever Six attacks, mill three cards. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. During your turn, nonland permanent cards in your graveyard have retrace. (You may cast permanent cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)

Creature
Six (mh3) 169
Splendid Reclamation

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

Sorcery
Splendid Reclamation (vow) 221
Stitch Together

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Stitch Together (c18) 119
The Cauldron of Eternity

This spell costs {2} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard. Whenever a creature you control dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library. {2}{B}, {T}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
The Cauldron of Eternity (eld) 82
Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Unearth (mh1) 113
Vat of Rebirth

Whenever another artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on this artifact. {2}{B}, {T}, Remove four oil counters from this artifact: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Vat of Rebirth (one) 113
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (cmm) 195
Walk-In Closet

Enchantment
Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar (pdsk) 205p
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
Zombify

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Zombify (a25) 116

Recursion

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Tutor

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Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Instant
Entomb (dmr) 82

Tutor

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Tokens & Extras

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Blood

{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact Token
Blood (tbig) 2
Copy

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

Token
Copy (tdsk) 1
Insect

Creature Token
Insect (tdsc) 11
Insect

Flying, deathtouch

Creature Token
Insect (tdsc) 12
Insect

Creature Token
Insect (tdsc) 22
Insect

Flying

Creature Token
Insect (tfdn) 21
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 (tc19) 27
Phyrexian Insect

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

Creature Token
Phyrexian Insect (tonc) 15
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (tmh3) 34

Tokens & Extras

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