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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.
Legendary Planeswalker - Grist
Grist, the Hunger Tide (dsc) 220

Commander

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Bond Beetle
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Creature - Insect
Bond Beetle (m13) 161
Broodguard Elite
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, put its counters on target creature you control.
Warp
(You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Creature - Knight Insect
Broodguard Elite (eoe) 175
Clockwork Beetle
This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.
Creature Artifact - Insect
Clockwork Beetle (mrd) 153
Deadbridge Goliath
Scavenge
(
, 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 - Insect
Deadbridge Goliath (j22) 645
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 - Insect
Deadly Grub (tsr) 108
Drudge Beetle
Scavenge
(
, 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 - Insect
Drudge Beetle (rvr) 136
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 - Insect
Duskshell Crawler (fic) 301
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 - Insect
Fretwork Colony (j25) 443
Intrepid Tenderfoot
: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Insect Citizen
Intrepid Tenderfoot (eoe) 193
Ironshell Beetle
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Creature - Insect
Ironshell Beetle (j22) 679
Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
Flying
Whenever a player sacrifices another permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Legendary Creature - Shaman Insect
Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest (soc) 319
Mortician Beetle
Whenever a player sacrifices a creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Insect
Mortician Beetle (mm3) 78
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 - Insect
Nessian Hornbeetle (fdn) 229
Scute Mob
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control five or more lands, put four +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Creature - Insect
Scute Mob (c18) 161
Spinal Centipede
When this creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Creature - Insect
Spinal Centipede (grn) 86
Voracious Brood
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard.
Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Creature - Insect Alien
Voracious Brood (msc) 735
Zanikev Locust
Flying
Scavenge
(
, 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 - Insect
Zanikev Locust (rtr) 84

Counters

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Acridian
Echo
(At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
Creature - Insect
Acridian (usg) 230
Dune Beetle
Creature - Insect
Dune Beetle (j22) 407
Giant Dustwasp
Flying
Suspend 4—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay
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 - Insect
Giant Dustwasp (tsr) 206
Jagwasp Swarm
Flying
Creature - Insect
Jagwasp Swarm (wwk) 58
Kraul Raider
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Creature - Warrior Insect
Kraul Raider (grn) 270
Kraul Warrior
: This creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
Creature - Warrior Insect
Kraul Warrior (clu) 168

Creature

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Chitin Gravestalker
This spell costs
less to cast for each artifact and/or creature card in your graveyard.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Warrior Insect
Chitin Gravestalker (dft) 79

Cycling

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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 - Insect
Gigapede (ons) 264
Virus Beetle
When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.
Creature Artifact - Insect
Virus Beetle (eoe) 124

Discard

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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 - Insect
Delta Bloodflies (tdm) 77

Drain

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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 - Insect
Circuit Mender (blc) 267
Marker Beetles
When this creature dies, target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.
Creature - Insect
Marker Beetles (uds) 112
Stirge
Flying
This creature can't block.
Blood Drain —
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.
Creature - Bat Insect
Stirge (clb) 150

Draw

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Battlefly Swarm
Flying
: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Creature - Insect Phyrexian
Battlefly Swarm (dmu) 81
Bayou Dragonfly
Flying; swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Creature - Insect
Bayou Dragonfly (tmp) 215
Brass Gnat
Flying
This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay
. If you do, untap this creature.
Creature Artifact - Insect
Brass Gnat (tsp) 249
Emerald Dragonfly
Flying
: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.
Creature - Insect
Emerald Dragonfly (chr) 63
Fog of Gnats
Flying
: Regenerate this creature.
Creature - Insect
Fog of Gnats (ulg) 53
Phyrexian Battleflies
Flying
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.
Creature - Insect Phyrexian
Phyrexian Battleflies (plst) INV-114
Plague Beetle
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Creature - Insect
Plague Beetle (10e) 168
Swarm, Being of Bees
Flash
Flying
Mayhem
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for
if you discarded it this turn. Timing rules still apply.)
Legendary Creature - Insect Villain
Swarm, Being of Bees (msc) 799

Evasion

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Huskburster Swarm
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature card you own in exile and in your graveyard.
Menace, deathtouch
Creature - Elemental Insect
Huskburster Swarm (blb) 98

Finisher

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Bilious Skulldweller
Deathtouch
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Creature - Insect Phyrexian
Bilious Skulldweller (one) 83
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.
Creature Artifact - Insect Phyrexian
Necropede (som) 185
Pestilent Syphoner
Flying
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Creature - Insect Phyrexian
Pestilent Syphoner (one) 103
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.)
Creature - Horror Insect Phyrexian
Plague Stinger (onc) 96
Swamp Mosquito
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, defending player gets a poison counter. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
Creature - Insect
Swamp Mosquito (all) 63a

Infect

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Bayou
(
: Add
or
.)
Land - Swamp Forest
Bayou (3ed) 283
Ebon Stronghold
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Add
.
Land
Ebon Stronghold (6ed) 324
Golgari Rot Farm
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Golgari Rot Farm (ecc) 151
Marsh Flats
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
Misty Rainforest
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Overgrown Tomb
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Swamp Forest
Overgrown Tomb (trk) 289
Polluted Delta
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 224
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (mdd) 296
Verdant Catacombs
, 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

Land

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Eumidian Terrabotanist
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Druid Insect
Eumidian Terrabotanist (eoe) 180
Kazandu Nectarpot
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Insect
Kazandu Nectarpot (j25) 679
Springheart Nantuko
Bestow

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay
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 - Monk Insect
Springheart Nantuko (mh3) 171

Landfall

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Rot Farm Mortipede
Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, this creature gets +1/+0 and gains menace and lifelink until end of turn.
Creature - Insect
Rot Farm Mortipede (mkm) 102

Lifegain

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Seedship Broodtender
When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature or Spacecraft card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Insect Citizen
Seedship Broodtender (eoe) 227

Mill

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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 - Insect
Blightbeetle (plst) M20-87
Jhoira's Toolbox
: Regenerate target artifact creature.
Creature Artifact - Insect
Jhoira's Toolbox (ulg) 128
Skylasher
Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Reach, protection from blue
Creature - Insect
Skylasher (dgm) 49
Xantid Swarm
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, defending player can't cast spells this turn.
Creature - Insect
Xantid Swarm (ema) 193

Protection

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Chainflail Centipede
Whenever this creature or equipped creature attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
Reconfigure
(
: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)
Creature Artifact - Equipment Insect
Chainflail Centipede (neo) 90
Nantuko Shade
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Shade Insect
Nantuko Shade (dmr) 306

Pump

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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.
, Discard this card: Return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Legendary Creature - Beast Insect
Altanak, the Thrice-Called (dsk) 166
Ant-Man's Army
When this creature enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (A Food token is an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life." A Treasure token is an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature - Insect
Ant-Man's Army (msh) 161
Chrome Mox
Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.
: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.
Artifact
Chrome Mox (2xm) 240
Gene Pollinator
, Tap an untapped permanent you control: Add one mana of any color.
Creature Artifact - Insect Robot
Gene Pollinator (eoe) 186
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 - Insect
Giant Ladybug (j22) 39
Halo Scarab
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature Artifact - Insect
Halo Scarab (snc) 239
Icetill Explorer
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
You may play lands from your graveyard.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, mill a card.
Creature - Scout Insect
Icetill Explorer (eoe) 192
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 - Insect
Loam Larva (ogw) 135
Molt Tender
: Mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
, Exile a card from your graveyard: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Druid Insect
Molt Tender (dft) 171

Ramp

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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 - Insect
Brood of Cockroaches (plst) VIS-53
Durable Coilbug
: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Insect
Durable Coilbug (j25) 429
Endless Cockroaches
When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand.
Creature - Insect
Endless Cockroaches (j25) 433
Spring-Leaf Avenger
Ninjutsu
(
, 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 - Insect Ninja
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.)
: Target Insect gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. (
can be paid with either
or
.)
Legendary Creature - Insect
Zask, Skittering Swarmlord (j22) 47

Recursion

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Blister Beetle
When this creature enters, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Creature - Insect
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 - Insect
Brain Maggot (jou) 62
Carrion Beetles
,
: Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.
Creature - Insect
Carrion Beetles (usg) 122
Caustic Caterpillar
, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Creature - Insect
Caustic Caterpillar (j22) 86
Flesh Burrower
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature attacks, another target creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Creature - Insect
Flesh Burrower (dsk) 178
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
. If you do, exile Grist, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control.
Legendary Creature - Insect
Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 251Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 251
Haywire Mite
When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.
, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.
Creature Artifact - Insect
Haywire Mite (soc) 349
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 - Warrior Insect
Kraul Harpooner (clu) 167
Kraul Whipcracker
Reach
When this creature enters, destroy target token an opponent controls.
Creature - Assassin Insect
Kraul Whipcracker (mkm) 213
Plague Fiend
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature unless its controller pays
.
Creature - Insect
Plague Fiend (pcy) 73
Skittering Heartstopper
: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Creature - Insect
Skittering Heartstopper (xln) 122
Wasp of the Bitter End
Flying
Whenever you cast a Bolas planeswalker spell, you may sacrifice this creature. If you do, destroy target creature.
Creature - Horror Insect
Wasp of the Bitter End (hou) 206
Webstrike Elite
Reach
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment with mana value X.
Creature - Archer Insect
Webstrike Elite (dft) 186

Removal

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Devouring Swarm
Flying
Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Insect
Devouring Swarm (j25) 421
Dross Hopper
Sacrifice a creature: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
Creature - Horror Insect Phyrexian
Dross Hopper (j25) 428

Sac Outlet

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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.
Legendary Creature - Shaman Insect
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
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Creature - Druid Insect
Broodhatch Nantuko (mkc) 167
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.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Insect
Fumulus, the Infestation (j25) 42
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 - Insect
Hornet Nest (tdc) 259
Lord Dregg, Insect Invader
Flying
Disappear — At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn, create a 1/1 black Insect Warrior creature token with flying.
, Sacrifice a token: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Warrior Insect
Lord Dregg, Insect Invader (tmt) 65

Tokens

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Wirewood Symbiote
Return an Elf you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.
Creature - Insect
Wirewood Symbiote (mh3) 288

Untap

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