Fly, Fly, My Pretties! [RETIRED]

Commander / EDH Aggro Multiplayer Tokens UR (Izzet)

DerektheRed

Draw (22)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Braingeyser
• 1x Concentrate
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Flux
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Jori En, Ruin Diver
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Military Intelligence
• 1x Mind Unbound
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Nin, the Pain Artist
• 1x Opportunity
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Thought Reflection
• 1x Well of Ideas

Wheel (10)

• 1x Arjun, the Shifting Flame
• 1x Collective Defiance
• 1x Fateful Showdown
• 1x Forgotten Creation
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Read the Runes
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Slate of Ancestry
• 1x Tolarian Winds

Land (34)

• 1x Blighted Cataract
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 12x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 9x Mountain
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thran Quarry

Offense (10)

• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Favorable Winds
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mindwrack Liege
• 1x Obelisk of Urd
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Teleportal
• 1x Toothy, Imaginary Friend

Ramp (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Battle Hymn
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity

Commander (1)

Removal (14)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Drag Under
• 1x Exclude
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Psychic Corrosion
• 1x Thundering Djinn
• 1x Volcanic Wind

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Maybeboard

Other (30)

• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Borrowing 100,000 Arrows
• 1x Comparative Analysis
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Deepchannel Mentor
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Disrupt
• 1x Dream Cache
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Kraum, Ludevic's Opus
• 1x Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist
• 1x Master the Way
• 1x Overflowing Insight
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Private Research
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Slithermuse
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage
• 1x Stoke the Flames
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Whirlpool Drake
• 1x Whirlpool Warrior

Draw (1)

• 1x Keranos, God of Storms

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Props to darleen for the inspiration - I'd been wanting to build a Locust God EDH deck since I pulled it, but was missing a few cards to make it work. I built mine with fewer artifacts and more control.

The control is crucial for the early game, until the Locust God is out; after that, this thing takes off like a... well, like a swarm of locusts. The control and ramp usually also have card draw, e.g. Exclude and Hedron Archive. Win-con is straightforward - locust swarm!! Lots of card draw, obviously, but lots of combo play as well.

Most of the combos are off artifacts:

- Ashnod's Altar + Skullclamp - Infinite locusts or infinite mana.

- Alhammarret's Archive + Skullclamp - 3 locusts for every 1 mana.

- Library of Leng + Windfall (or any of the wheel effects) is hilarious because you can redraw your entire hand if you want, while making your opponents discard, and get a locust for each draw.

- Psychosis Crawler is a monster in this deck, though for offense all you really need is Favorable Winds + Mindwrack Liege (or either with Obelisk of Urd, which you can cast for free by tapping six locusts). With all three, you're generating a 6/6 flier with haste every time you draw.

Even with some control, this deck is a little vulnerable to board wipes and targeted removal, since it's so commander-dependent. But since Locust God goes to your hand, the recovery speed is usually just one turn.

I know I'm missing a few wheel cards, like Magus of the Wheel and Arjun, the Shifting Flame. Any other suggestions or comments are appreciated. Please upvote if you like the deck!

RETIRED

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Ashnod's Altar + Skullclamp Alhammarret's Archive + Skullclamp Library of Leng + Windfall Favorable Winds + Mindwrack Liege
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.48
Tokens	Insect 1/1 UR, Squid 1/1 U
Folders	Deck ideas, Retired