Bugs I Win, Lands You Lose!

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Infinite Combo Insect Land Destruction Landfall Lands Primer

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Land (37)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Traitors
• 1x Cryptic Caves
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Field of the DeadGC
• 3x Forest
• 1x Gaea's CradleGC
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 3x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swarmyard
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Grist, the Hunger Tide
• 1x Nissa, Vital Force

Creature (27)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Delighted Halfling
• 1x Elvish Reclaimer
• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Seedship Broodtender
• 1x Springheart Nantuko
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Nissa, Resurgent Animist
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Tireless Provisioner
• 1x Wayward Swordtooth
• 1x Icetill Explorer
• 1x Mirkwood Bats
• 1x Caustic Crawler
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Disciple of Freyalise  ^Flip
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Artifact (6)

• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Horn of Greed

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Exploration
• 1x Animate Dead

Commander (1)

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Demonic Counsel
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Explore
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Summer Bloom
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Bridgeworks Battle  ^Flip
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Scapeshift
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Turntimber Symbiosis  ^Flip

Instant (11)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Nameless Inversion
• 1x Archdruid's Charm
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Realms Uncharted
• 1x Force of Vigor

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Creature (17)

• 1x Gene Pollinator
• 1x Grist, Voracious Larva  ^Flip
• 1x Molt Tender
• 1x Fynn, the Fangbearer
• 1x Kraul Harpooner
• 1x Webstrike Elite
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Stinging Cave Crawler
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Topiary Stomper
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Yavimaya Dryad
• 1x Canoptek Scarab Swarm
• 1x World Shaper
• 1x Ancient Greenwarden

Instant (6)

• 1x Crop RotationGC
• 1x Legolas's Quick Reflexes
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC
• 1x Overwhelming Remorse
• 1x Stinging Study

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Skyshroud Claim

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Gaea's Touch
• 1x NecropotenceGC
• 1x Retreat to Hagra

Artifact (4)

• 1x Mana VaultGC
• 1x Ashes of the Fallen
• 1x Grim MonolithGC
• 1x Crucible of Worlds

Land (2)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

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This Deck Stink!

The best part of building a deck of bugs is, you won't have to smell it. But I'm not sure your opponents were spared that part after we took them hostage and tortured them with our Zask. After all, land destruction is as stinky as a road-killed skunk.

What Synergy?

Let's break down Zask's abilities first.

The 1st paragraph makes Zask a Crucible of Worlds for both land and Insect spells. Fetch lands, discard, mill, sacrifice, and entomb effects should synergy with it well.

"Playing lands" also means you have to build extra land privilege to abuse that ability. Azusa, Lost but Seeking + Strip Mine will easily cancel out all your opponents' land drops, and troll them by messing around their mana curve. A wise man once said, that unless you make your opponent suffer, you're not playing Magic the Suffering™ correctly.

Even if we're allowed to cast insect creatures from our graveyard, the 2nd paragraph will stop us from squeezing more juice from the card, by tucking that card into the library bottom and then milling 2 cards, which is mediocre.

But Nameless Inversion is an instant, and technically an instant can't die. It gets resolved and put into our graveyard from the stack. So we could +3/-3 check as many times as we want. Same as Grist, the Hunger Tide, it is either a planeswalker on the board or an insect creature when it isn't. The rule is on our side, pal.

The last paragraph could give Zask more chance to stomp through, or buff the blocker and make attackers take the bite. Opponents fear us even if we are lands flooded and have nothing to cast.

Wincon

I added The Gitrog Monster combo just in case someone insist we should put a "Real Wincon" in this deck. But we all knew our goal was to make opponents' lands disappear. wink wink

The Gitrog Monster Combo Show

1. The Gitrog Monster In play.

2. Putrid Imp Any free discard outlet.

3. Dakmor Salvage Discard this land card, trigger Gitrong to draw one, and replace it with Dredge 2.

4. Kozilek, Butcher of Truth The insurance from decking ourselves, now we have infinite cards draw.

5. Lotus Petal Infinite mana.

6. Torment of Hailfire What could be better to end our opponents' suffering by a great firework with torment in its name?

Mama Marit Lage Show

1. Dark Depths In play.

2. Thespian's Stage Copy Dark Depths and sac it, create your 20/20 finisher.

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Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.57
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Food, Insect 1/1 BG, Insect 1/1 G, Marit Lage, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	1k+, interesting decks, Bug and land bros