Locusts, Take the Wheel~

Commander / EDH UR (Izzet)

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Land (34)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 11x Island
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Volcanic Island

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Echo of Eons
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Winds of Change

Artifact (21)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Thought Vessel

Creature (6)

• 1x Hullbreacher
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Simian Spirit Guide
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Trinket Mage

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Breath of Fury
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Shared Animosity

Commander (1)

Instant (17)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Firestorm
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Whir of Invention

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

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Changed Nekusar to Locust God. This deck seems to have the issue of still being overly reliant on its Commander, but he can at least dodge Commander tax when not exiled so that's pretty helpful even if he costs 6 mana to start.

Combos:

Kindred Discovery + The Locust God - Draws the library. The cards don't say may so this is not a loop you can stop voluntarily, so you have to spend a card/ability to stop it or lose. Firestorm to win (you'll have X targets thanks to your insect tokens, so chucking 40+ cards at people is easy), and if something stops Firestorm like you can't target a player or it gets countered, you can Snapback to bounce the God with your second to last draw trigger on the stack, and then draw your second to last card. Cast Mana Crypt , Sol Ring , Simian Spirit Guide , and/or Chrome Mox to play Ashnod's Altar , then sacrifice a few insect tokens to play any other mana rocks you may need, then cast Isochron Scepter with Dramatic Reversal imprinted on it. This will generate infinite mana using the rocks, and then play Locust God, activate his draw + discard ability using your arbitrarily large amounts of mana, and then discard Kozilek to reshuffle your graveyard into your library (which will be at least 2-3 cards). You can activate this for all the tokens you want.

Locust God + Skullclamp + Ashnod's Altar- Generates infinite colorless mana, creatures, and draw. Each iteration of this loop gives you an additional Insect token, 2 cards in hand, and 1 colorless mana in your mana pool. You can easily find Dramatic Reversal and Isochron Scepter this way, and then play the Scepter and all of your mana rocks you draw to generate all the mana. You can leave 1 card on top of your library so you can discard Kozilek to Locust God's ability repeatedly to reshuffle cards from your hand back into your library for more tokens, if need be, then power out a big 'ol Firestorm or just attack with infinite tokens. If Kozilek is the last card of your library, you can just sacrifice insect tokens to pay his mana cost then sacrifice him to Ashnod's Altar to reshuffle your library, then use Locust God's ability to loop him.

Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter - Added in largely due to the deck's reliance on mana rocks. With 3 mana in rocks on board, you generate infinite mana. If you have both red and blue mana available in your rocks, you can win outright with Locust God's ability to draw and discard a card for 2UR, and then cast any other cards you may want to cast (depending on available mana. Mind that this produces as many insect tokens as you want since Kozilek reshuffles the graveyard into the library).

The Locust God + Ashnod's Altar + Murder of Crows also produces an endless number of draw triggers for all the insect tokens.

Bident of Thassa + Breath of Fury + The Locust God is an adorable little combo that, so long as you have a couple insect tokens to start, you can continue swinging at opponents repeatedly as the tokens will replace themselves. This can't go truly infinite, however, as Breath of Fury moves from combat phase to combat phase with no main phase in between, so you're limited to your library's size to the number of tokens you can generate, but the amount of damage would be absurd (starting with 5 tokens, you swing 5, then 9, then 17, then 33, which is enough to deal 561 damage. Unless someone's used a combo for infinite life, this line will generally end the game.

Breath of Fury + Murder of Crows + The Locust God is another combo that's more cute than it is effective, but if your opponents have no flying blockers, this combo gives you combat steps equal to the number of cards in your library. For example, 2 tokens + the other two creatures gives you 10 damage, you hit the opponent with the token that Breath of Fury is attached to, sacrifice the token, attach Fury to the other token, draw and discard a card which produces a new token, and attack for 10 again.

You can also just play Locust God, play wheels, and then beat people with Insect tokens. The wheels and tokens make decent threats while you work toward a combo, and Breath of Fury can make 15 tokens deal exactly 120 damage to multiple opponents (and Breath of Fury is absurdly threatening with Shared Animosity as the bonuses from Animosity stack each combat. 7 tokens attack at 6/6s first combat, then 6 11/11s, then 5 15/15s, then 4 18/18s, and so forth).

Alhammaret's Archive -> Paradox Engine

Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter Bident of Thassa + Breath of Fury + The Locust God Breath of Fury + Murder of Crows + The Locust God Kindred Discovery + The Locust God
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.39
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Boar 2/2 G, Emblem Dack Fayden, Insect 1/1 UR, Treasure
Folders	Retired Commander Decks