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Insect of the Abyss
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $294.51
Salt Sum: 31.7
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $4.49
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
1

Artifact

Quantity: 7Price: $26.09
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (moc) 348
1
Cellar Door

{3}, {T}: Target player puts the bottom card of their library into their graveyard. If it's a creature card, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Artifact
Cellar Door (isd) 218
1
Ghirapur Orrery

Each player may play an additional land on each of their turns. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand, that player draws three cards.

Artifact
Ghirapur Orrery (kld) 216
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 (slc) 1998
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
1
Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Artifact
Vedalken Orrery (2x2) 317
1

Creature

Quantity: 35Price: $87.43
Ant Queen

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

Creature
Ant Queen (mm2) 139
1
Azusa, Lost but Seeking

You may play two additional lands on each of your turns.

Creature
Azusa, Lost but Seeking (m21) 173
1
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 Bane of the Living is turned face up, all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Creature
Bane of the Living (c19) 104
1
Battlefly Swarm

Flying {B}: Battlefly Swarm gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Battlefly Swarm (dmu) 81
1
Bilious Skulldweller

Deathtouch Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)

Creature
Bilious Skulldweller (one) 83
1
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
1
Broodhatch Nantuko

Whenever Broodhatch Nantuko 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 (a25) 162
1
Canoptek Scarab Swarm

Flying Feeder Mandibles — When Canoptek Scarab Swarm enters the battlefield, 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
1
Canoptek Tomb Sentinel

Vigilance Exile Cannon — When Canoptek Tomb Sentinel enters the battlefield from a graveyard, exile up to one target nonland permanent. Unearth {7} ({7}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature Artifact
Canoptek Tomb Sentinel (40k) 152
1
Caustic Caterpillar

{1}{G}, Sacrifice Caustic Caterpillar: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Caustic Caterpillar (ori) 170
1
Caustic Crawler

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target creature get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Caustic Crawler (wwk) 54
1
Circuit Mender

When Circuit Mender enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life. When Circuit Mender leaves the battlefield, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Circuit Mender (neo) 242
1
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

Creature Enchantment
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove (thb) 169
1
Duskshell Crawler

When Duskshell Crawler enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

Creature
Duskshell Crawler (mh2) 156
1
Endless Cockroaches

When Endless Cockroaches dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Creature
Endless Cockroaches (c13) 75
1
Giant Adephage

Trample Whenever Giant Adephage deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of Giant Adephage.

Creature
Giant Adephage (ncc) 293
1
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
1
Grave-Shell Scarab

{1}, Sacrifice Grave-Shell Scarab: Draw a card. Dredge 1 (If you would draw a card, you may mill a card instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Creature
Grave-Shell Scarab (rav) 211
1
Haywire Mite

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

Creature Artifact
Haywire Mite (bro) 199
1
Heartstabber Mosquito

Kicker {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell.) Flying When Heartstabber Mosquito enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, destroy target creature.

Creature
Heartstabber Mosquito (ddp) 52
1
Hex Parasite

{X}{B/P}: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, Hex Parasite gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Hex Parasite (nph) 137
1
Hornet Queen

Flying, deathtouch When Hornet Queen enters the battlefield, create four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch.

Creature
Hornet Queen (clb) 825
1
Kazandu Nectarpot

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kazandu Nectarpot (znr) 190
1
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 (2xm) 209
1
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 Necropede dies, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Creature Artifact
Necropede (som) 185
1
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 Nessian Hornbeetle.

Creature
Nessian Hornbeetle (jmp) 413
1
Oracle of Mul Daya

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play lands from the top of your library.

Creature
Oracle of Mul Daya (2x2) 154
1
Scute Mob

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

Creature
Scute Mob (c18) 161
1
Scute Swarm

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

Creature
Scute Swarm (ncc) 310
1
Skittering Heartstopper

{B}: Skittering Heartstopper gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Skittering Heartstopper (xln) 122
1
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 Spring-Leaf Avenger deals combat damage to a player, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Spring-Leaf Avenger (neo) 208
1
Stirge

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

Creature
Stirge (clb) 150
1
The Gitrog Monster

Deathtouch At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice The Gitrog Monster unless you sacrifice a land. You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, draw a card.

Creature
The Gitrog Monster (soi) 245
1
Thelonite Monk

{T}, Sacrifice a green creature: Target land becomes a Forest. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Creature
Thelonite Monk (fem) 79
1
Virus Beetle

When Virus Beetle enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

Creature Artifact
Virus Beetle (neo) 128
1

Enchantment

Quantity: 4Price: $27.26
Druid Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life. {2}{G}: Level 2 You may play an additional land on each of your turns. {4}{G}: Level 3 When this Class becomes level 3, target land you control becomes a creature with haste and "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." It's still a land.

Enchantment
Druid Class (afr) 180
1
Exploration

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Enchantment
Exploration (2xm) 167
1
Out of the Tombs

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two eon counters on Out of the Tombs, then mill cards equal to the number of eon counters on it. If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If you can't, you lose the game.

Enchantment
Out of the Tombs (40k) 46
1
Rites of Flourishing

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. Each player may play an additional land on each of their turns.

Enchantment
Rites of Flourishing (znc) 80
1

Instant

Quantity: 8Price: $13.74
Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Assassin's Trophy (2x2) 175
1
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.

Instant
Crop Rotation (2xm) 161
1
Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Harrow (znc) 69
1
Nameless Inversion

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

Instant Tribal
Nameless Inversion (plst) MM2-87
1
Overwhelming Remorse

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Overwhelming Remorse (bro) 110
1
Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way. You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (stx) 81
1
Putrefy

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Putrefy (plst) KHC-91
1
Village Rites

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

Instant
Village Rites (j22) 486
1

Land

Quantity: 35Price: $107.80
Blast Zone

Blast Zone enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it. {T}: Add {C}. {X}{X}, {T}: Put X charge counters on Blast Zone. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice Blast Zone: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on Blast Zone.

Land
Blast Zone (bro) 258
1
Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Command Beacon: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (cmr) 349
1
Cryptic Caves

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Cryptic Caves: Draw a card. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Cryptic Caves (khc) 109
1
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Demolition Field: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (bro) 260
1
Dust Bowl

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Land
Dust Bowl (mmq) 316
1
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (m21) 246
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mom) 281
10
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 (cm2) 253
1
Grim Backwoods

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{B}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

Land
Grim Backwoods (c20) 278
1
Hashep Oasis

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G}. {1}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Hashep Oasis (hou) 177
1
Ifnir Deadlands

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}. {2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Ifnir Deadlands (hou) 179
1
Jund Panorama

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Jund Panorama: Search your library for a basic Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Jund Panorama (ncc) 408
1
Nurturing Peatland

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

Land
Nurturing Peatland (mh1) 243
1
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (lcc) 349
1
Strip Mine

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

Land
Strip Mine (vma) 316
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
7
Tectonic Edge

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Tectonic Edge: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.

Land
Tectonic Edge (c14) 313
1
Throne of the High City

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Throne of the High City: You become the monarch.

Land
Throne of the High City (cn2) 80
1
Verdant Catacombs

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

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
1
Wasteland

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Wasteland: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Land
Wasteland (ema) 248
1

Planeswalker

Quantity: 1Price: $8.49
Grist, the Hunger Tide

As long as Grist, the Hunger Tide 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) 202
1

Sorcery

Quantity: 9Price: $19.21
Crippling Fear

Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Crippling Fear (clb) 745
1
Culling Ritual

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add {B} or {G} for each permanent destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Culling Ritual (onc) 117
1
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 (moc) 295
1
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (dmc) 133
1
Kodama's Reach

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
Kodama's Reach (moc) 306
1
Nature's Lore

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

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (clb) 244
1
Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Patriarch's Bidding (mh2) 275
1
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (2x2) 155
1
Three Visits

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

Sorcery
Three Visits (clb) 837
1

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