Bugs I Win, Lands You Lose!

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

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Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Traitors
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 3x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 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

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Exploration
• 1x Animate Dead

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 Kraul Harpooner
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Nissa, Resurgent Animist
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Tireless Provisioner
• 1x Wayward Swordtooth
• 1x Canoptek Scarab Swarm
• 1x Mirkwood Bats
• 1x Caustic Crawler
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Artifact (8)

• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Horn of Greed

Commander (1)

Instant (12)

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

Sorcery (12)

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

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Maybeboard

Creature (9)

• 1x Fynn, the Fangbearer
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Stinging Cave Crawler
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Topiary Stomper
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Yavimaya Dryad
• 1x World Shaper
• 1x Ancient Greenwarden

Enchantment (4)

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

Sorcery (4)

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

Instant (4)

• 1x Legolas's Quick Reflexes
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Overwhelming Remorse
• 1x Stinging Study

Artifact (2)

• 1x Ashes of the Fallen
• 1x Crucible of Worlds

Land (1)

• 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	2 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.45
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Food, Insect 1/1 BG, Insect 1/1 C w/ Flying, Insect 1/1 G, Marit Lage, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	1k+, interesting decks, Imported Decks, Bug and land bros