Not The Bees! Not The Bees! Ahhh!

Commander / EDH

ASMetalhead54

Land (36)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 5x Forest
• 2x Island
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 7x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 6x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Instant (14)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Natural Affinity
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Remand
• 1x Rending Vines
• 1x Starstorm

Creature (19)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boros Reckoner
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Genesis
• 1x Heartwood Storyteller
• 1x Hornet Nest
• 1x Illusory Ambusher
• 1x Nin, the Pain Artist
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Seedguide Ash
• 1x Soulfire Grand Master
• 1x Spitemare
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Swans of Bryn Argoll
• 1x Tamanoa
• 1x Vizier of Remedies
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1x Volcano Hellion
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Fires of Yavimaya
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Guilty Conscience
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Market Festival
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Commander (1)

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Banefire
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Decimate
• 1x Explore
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Hull Breach
• 1x Molten Disaster
• 1x Primal Command
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Star of Extinction

Artifact (4)

• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip

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My first attempt to bring a modern deck strategy into commander. This is based on the popular "Dragonball Bees" video by Vince (also known as PleasentKenobi on the internet). A close friend plays it in modern and I wanted to see if I could bring it the the EDH table.

The goal is pretty simple, make Bees, lots and lots of Bees. These Bees are gonna hopefully kill everyone else on entry with Impact Tremors and/or Purphoros, or flying over for lots of damage on attack to finish it. We do this by hitting our Hornet Nest for loads of damage with things like Blasphemous Act, Star Of Extinction,...etc.

We also have all the classic token helpers Doubling Season, Anointed Procession, and Parallel Lives. Also including Panharmonicon just to really bring it home. Other versions of the deck ran by SaffronOlive include the infinite combo of Devoted Druid + Vizier of Remedies to hit the nest with an infinite Banefire, therefore, making infinite death-bringing Bees.

We have some good tutors to get the combo pieces out faster and some solid card draw and ramp for consistency. The deck also runs other "Hit Yourself" cards like Spitemare, Boros Reckoner, and Stuffy Doll" which all combo pretty well with our damage based wipes. Hopefully one day I can have Vizkopa Guildmage and Soulfire Grand Master out at the same time and then cast Natural Affinity into Blasphemous Act to end it.

First game, it won with Impact Tremors and Purphoros out when I cast Hornet Nest and then Blasphemous Act. Killing all creatures, dealing 13 damage to the nest, making 13 Insect tokens (or Bees) and shooting everyone for 39 damage.

I'd eventually like to include Auriok Champion but I don't have one yet. Any ideas for consistency or better card choice please let me know, it's greatly appreciated. Finally, I chose Sliver Hivelord to be the leader mostly just for the colors and the "Swarm" flavoring so any ideas for a better leader would be good too, thanks.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.12
Tokens	Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure