Insect tribal brew! Insect synergy with
Grist, the Hunger Tide
,
Cavern of Souls
,
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
, and
Swarmyard
.
This deck is mainly about taking advantage of the large amount of creatures and creature tokens produced by sacrificing them for value. It is hard for the opponent to stop us because
Cavern of Souls
and
Swarmyard
will negate a lot of interaction and we can also
Liliana of the Veil
and
Thoughtseize
the opponent's hand to take their best cards for dealing with us.
So, what are we doing exactly? Mainly we will be sacrificing creatures for value and also keeping the board clear from creatures the opponent is playing so we can attack for damage.
For sacrifice value,
Grist, the Hunger Tide
can kill most anything for the low cost of sacrificing one of your own creatures. Additionally,
Unyaro Bees
is a fairly flexible card that we can sacrifice and
Village Rites
gives us card draw. Also, everything we sacrifice puts cards in the graveyard for
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
and also grows
Mortician Beetle
.
To win the game we will use a plethora of removal, notably
Abrupt Decay
,
Liliana's Triumph
, and planeswalkers, to pave the way for our insects.
Mortician Beetle
,
Nantuko Shade
, and
Scute Mob
all have potential to deal good combat damage.
Interesting cards in the sideboard are
Caustic Caterpillar
, which grows
Mortician Beetle
and destroys artifacts/enchantments and
Hex Parasite
that can deal with modular and
Hardened Scales
decks. If the opponent is playing all removal spells then
Vorapede
is really good and then
Kraul Harpooner
can kill flying creatures for free like
Birds of Paradise
.
Unfortunately, the deck is pretty casual because there aren't very many strong insects.
Hornet Nest
and
Nantuko Shade
are pretty meh and
Realmwalker
isn't even an insect type.
Hornet Nest
is better than it looks though because the opponent really doesn't want to attack into it to get to your planeswalkers and you can also regenerate it
Swarmyard
after it takes damage and makes tokens. But mainly we include these cards because really the deck needs another 1 or 2 great insect creatures. Hoping to be able to update it in the future with better cards!
