Budget Locust God

Commander / EDH UR (Izzet)

Malzelda

Instant (19)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Blustersquall
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Ensnare
• 1x Fateful Showdown
• 1x Illusionist's Gambit
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Keep Watch
• 1x Precognitive Perception
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Reins of Power
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Tolarian Winds
• 1x Unwind

Land (34)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Grand Coliseum
• 1x Highland Lake
• 18x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs

Artifact (16)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Izzet Cluestone
• 1x Izzet Locket
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Neurok Stealthsuit
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Thunderstaff
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Creature (11)

• 1x Forgotten Creation
• 1x Magus of the Jar
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Whirlpool Drake
• 1x Whirlpool Rider
• 1x Whirlpool Warrior
• 1x Windreader Sphinx

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

Commander (1)

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Aether Gale
• 1x Collective Defiance
• 1x Diminishing Returns
• 1x Divination
• 1x Flux
• 1x Game Plan
• 1x Incendiary Command
• 1x Khorvath's Fury
• 1x Laquatus's Creativity
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Shattered Perception
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Windfall

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Breath of Fury
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Outpost Siege

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Breath of Fury
• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Mana Echoes
• 1x Mystic Remora

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Winds of Change

Instant (1)

• 1x Dream Fracture

Artifact (4)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box

Land (2)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Temple of Epiphany

Creature (4)

• 1x Arjun, the Shifting Flame
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Laboratory Maniac

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

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Overview of the Deck

I originally built this deck with budget in mind. I plan leave the deck list mostly where it is at, but will add a maybeboard for changes/potential upgrades, as well as post good upgrades and suggestions here in the description.

The Locust God deck I have built is tuned to draw many cards, and wheel away our opponents hands. The board can grow fast, and swing wide with a lot of bugs.

I plan to add more about the deck here soon!

The Budget

This deck was originally built as a $50 deck (excluding commander), but I recently added some additional includes such as Sol Ring and Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur which had been in my collection already. Otherwise, the deck sits around $90-95 now. I will post more upgrades below in “The Swaps” and better budget includes in “Budget Swaps”. Thanks again for all the suggestions and help!

The Swaps

Here I will post cards I’ve swapped in with the cards I swapped out (or ones that I will/recommend swapping in). I will do this in case anyone wants to pursue a budget build, and also work on upgrades later (and leave the current list the same). These are just suggestions, but things that I (and some others) think would best fit in the deck. Feel free to use these at your discretion.

Lands

Changes here will help fix our manabase to be sure we can cast our spells. Fiery Islet is more expensive, however is one I recently pulled from the Modern Horizons Prerelease, and include because I own it. Sulfur Falls and Steam Vents are still a bit on the expensive side, but dual lands will surely fix our manabase.

• Command Tower In, Island Out
• Shivan Reef In, Island Out
• Sulfur Falls In, Island Out
• Fiery Islet In, Island Out
• Steam Vents In, Island Out

Artifacts

Here, Talisman of Creativity gives us both colors without the additional cost of a colorless, but only at a small price of one life. It fixes our mana better better than Prismatic Lens

• Talisman of Creativity In, Prismatic Lens Out

Creatures

While Magus of the Jar always gives us a nice seven, it has many downsides, especially it having to be sacrificed. Jace's Archivist is repeatable, and can sometimes get us more than seven cards.

• Jace's Archivist In, Magus of the Jar Out.

Budget Swaps

Here I will post better budget cards for those wanting to build my budget deck but need to cut down on price. Will work on this soon :)

I realize that others run on different budgets, so I hope these includes can help you save a little bit of money, but still have a great deck!

Budget Artifacts

• Star Compass
• Prismatic Lens

Budget Sorcery

• Roar of the Crowd

Special Thanks

Special Thanks to:

multimedia

VampiricTooter

DanyTargaryen102

DerektheRed

I really appreciate the help you did to help me find great upgrades for this deck!

Suggestions?

I would gladly appreciate any suggestions anyone has with the deck. Some I may accept or decline, but I would be glad to hear what you think could improve upon the existing deck! Thank you!

Other Info

I swapped out Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur for Narset, Parter of Veils because Narset locks down opponents draws similar to the way Jin Gitaxias does to hands. While not giving card draw, Narset also provides noncreature search and has a much cheaper CMC. Narset also comes at a cheaper pricetag!

Recently Swapped out Reins of Power for Laboratory Maniac . In addition, I swapped out Keep Watch With Coastal Piracy . To keep the main deck mostly budget, I shall not add them to the decklist, rather the maybeboard.

The maybeboard includes cards I am considering swapping out and/or consist of good upgrades. It might include some upgrades in which they are really good includes, but ones I do not have/know a great swap for them.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.42
Tokens	Insect 1/1 UR