A Plague of Locust

Commander / EDH Blue Moon Group Slug Midrange Primer Tokens UR (Izzet)

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Land (33)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x High Market
• 12x Island
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 7x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (15)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Arjun, the Shifting Flame
• 1x Bloodwater Entity
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Faerie Artisans
• 1x Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Whirlpool Drake
• 1x Whirlpool Rider
• 1x Whirlpool Warrior

Instant (15)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Fateful Showdown
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Keep Watch
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Swan Song

Artifact (14)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Throne of the God-Pharaoh

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Beacon of Tomorrows
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Collective Defiance
• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Enter the Infinite
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Plea for Power
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Vandalblast

Enchantment (7)

• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Breath of Fury
• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study

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I loved The Locust God from the moment it was spoiled and wanted to build a deck around it.

The general theme I settled on is the most obvious - ramp quickly, cast the Locust God on Turn-4-ish, then draw tons of cards and murder all who would oppose us.

I tried to avoid things that would let our opponents draw extra cards, so there are no traditional wheels in the deck. I also tried to avoid easy combos for the most part, but a couple worked their way in because their component parts were just too good not to include:

1) Breath of Fury with either Bident of Thassa or Coastal Piracy will let us take ~55ish combat steps, and deal more than 1300 damage when you play them together, but each of those cards are so powerful in this deck on their own that I couldn't leave one out just to avoid the combo.

2) I also included Enter the Infinite because drawing your entire deck seems pretty powerful when it makes ~75 tokens with haste, which meant I had to toss a Beacon of Tomorrows into the deck so we could avoid dying.

I avoided stuff like Ashnod's Altar, which goes crazy (but not infinite) with Skullclamp. I also avoided Mana Echoes which paints such a large target on yourself, but loses a lot of it's effectiveness since we're not comboing off. Also keep in mind that Kindred Discovery makes you instantly lose the game as it's draw effect is non-optional.

Some upgrades to the deck would be to include Back to Basics, the combo pieces (if you want to go that route) and more control magic to make sure your stuff resolves and sticks around... I just took this as an oppotunity to include some really out-there cards like Keep Watch that are amazingly powerful in this deck, that never really see play anywhere else.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	WBG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.11
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Insect 1/1 UR, Manifest 2/2 C