Locust of Secrets

Commander / EDH

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Land (36)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desert of the Fervent
• 1x Desert of the Mindful
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Highland Lake
• 11x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Shimmering Grotto
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Transguild Promenade

Artifact (14)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Credit Voucher
• 1x Izzet Cluestone
• 1x Izzet Keyrune
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Slate of Ancestry
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spectral Searchlight
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Sorcery (18)

• 1x Braingeyser
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Collective Defiance
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Dream Cache
• 1x Goblin Lore
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Portent
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Shattered Perception
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Winds of Change SL

Creature (14)

• 1x Cephalid Broker
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Curator of Mysteries
• 1x Forgotten Creation
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Jori En, Ruin Diver
• 1x Murder of Crows
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Sindbad
• 1x Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1x Whirlpool Drake
• 1x Whirlpool Rider
• 1x Whirlpool Warrior
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Commander (1)

Instant (14)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Fateful Showdown
• 1x Keep Watch
• 1x Obsessive Search
• 1x Opt
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reach Through Mists
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Tolarian Winds
• 1x Turn / Burn

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Compulsion
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Mindmoil

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Sideboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Disrupt

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Open Into Wonder

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Maybeboard

Land (18)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wandering Fumarole

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Chandra, Flamecaller

Creature (14)

• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Magus of the Jar
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Mindwrack Liege
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Runehorn Hellkite
• 1x Saprazzan Heir
• 1x Thought Courier
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Wharf Infiltrator
• 1x Windreader Sphinx

Instant (5)

• 1x Catalog
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Gush
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Read the Runes

Artifact (8)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Culling Dais
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Skeleton Key
• 1x Smuggler's Copter
• 1x Throne of the God-Pharaoh

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Breakthrough
• 1x Control of the Court
• 1x Ghastly Discovery
• 1x Laquatus's Creativity
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Windfall

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Military Intelligence
• 1x Psychic Vortex
• 1x Thought Reflection

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This deck is inspired by one of my favorite legacy decks Grexis Delver. So when I got my hands on a The Locust God the brewing began.

I started by looking through every draw card imaginable to compile my list. Immediately it became evident that I was gonna need some kind of system to sort these. So I made 5 categories. ( <1, -1, 0 , +1, >1 ) Basically I wanted to know what kept my hand natural, what was giving and what was stealing from hand size. So cards like Faithless Looting were out.

I also tried to remove any infinite combo. Not what this brew is about. Although I do think that Kindred Discovery will have a place in this deck. It just feels too good in this deck. Dumb and clumsy like a locust god should be.

After some play tests my first version felt slow and cards like Baral, Chief of Compliance were not hitting the right spots. Aswell Arcanis the Omnipotent was too bulky to cast and would happen at the same time I would want to play my commander.

I removed a bunch of high end stuff and loaded it with crappy mana rocks. Ahh much better. But now the problem was that I was more or less a sitting duck until I can resolve a locust god. Cue the removal. Cut even more high end stuff.

Skullclamp to fill hand, then explode a Whirlpool Drake with Collective Defiance. Let the fun begin.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 24 - 0 Rares 20 - 2 Uncommons 33 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.92
Tokens	Drake 2/2 U, Elemental 1/1 R, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Insect 1/1 UR, Manifest 2/2 C, Squid 1/1 U