Locust god

Commander / EDH* Combo Tokens UR (Izzet)

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Land (38)

• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desert of the Fervent
• 1x Desert of the Mindful
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 13x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of the False God

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Shattering Spree
• 1x Windfall

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC

Artifact (19)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana VaultGC
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Creature (13)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Forgotten Creation
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Whirlpool Warrior

Commander (1)

Instant (17)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Mystical TutorGC
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Swan Song

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Chandra, Flamecaller

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Enchantment (2)

• 1x Kyren Negotiations
• 1x Mana Echoes

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Burn at the Stake

Artifact (2)

• 1x Gemstone Array
• 1x Throne of the God-Pharaoh

Creature (1)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx

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A fairly basic locust god deck. Built on a semi-budget. Some cards are obviously not that great, but were added because I had them sitting around. A bunch of the cards were parts of the Izzet Commander Pre-con from a few years ago.

At its core this is a combo deck centered around The Locust God. Skullclamp is the other major combo piece. Using Ashnods alter and skull clamp you can make "infinite" mana (as long as you have cards to draw/Locust to sacrifice). Kindred Discover, Bident of Thassa, and Coastal Piracy let you draw cards based on your swarm of Locust ETB/attacking. Impact Tremors, Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind, Purphoros, God of the Forge, and Psychosis Crawler do damage when a Locust enters (or when you draw a card for Niv) letting you machine gun down all your opponents at the same time. These pieces all combine in different ways that provide a similar result. The Locust God + anything that lets you draw cards (make more Locust) + anything that does damage based on cards drawn/Locust ETB = Combo win.

Once of the nice things about this deck is that the combos are quite flexible. One note Kindred Discovery is not a "may" trigger, so if it starts you can not choose to stop it, you have to have Laboratory Maniac out or you WILL deck yourself.

I've found that the major weakness of the deck is how essential The Locust God is to make it run. No God, no combo, and no major way to win. Another weakness is how expensive The Locust God is to cast. Because of this I usually keep hands that have lots of mana and ramp in them. You are likely to draw into more card draw/wheel effects so I do not mind keeping "slow" hands. The one benefit The Locust God does have is that it skirts around commander tax. If he is removed it will almost always cost 6 to cast again. The exception is if someone exiles your graveyard while he is in it, in that case just have him move back into the command zone again. The deck features a bunch of counter spells meant to stop people from removing The Locust God or your other combo pieces. The current state of the deck does not have the best counters in it (because the best counters are hella expensive) but it makes due.

If you like drawing cards and having lots and lots of tokens swarm your opponents than check this deck out.

Looking for suggestions for card upgrades. As well as effect ratio analysis (too many counters? Too few board wipes? ect)

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.05
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Elemental 3/1 R, Insect 1/1 UR, Manifest 2/2 C, Squid 1/1 U
Folders	Possible EDH Decks