Also, is Arcanis the Omnipotent just too expensive? Good way to mill yourself out with Mind Over Matter

Daedalus19876 thanks for link , here for budget tag :D appreciate it

Agieryna: That is the primary reason, yes :) Two other reasons, however - I want to be able to interact with certain abilities (notably the cycling of Decree of Annihilation and the activated ability of Aetherflux Reservoir), and I want a card with a jackal on it in the deck (I'm an unashamed furry).

rkjunior: Absolutely. It's simply the best wheel in the game. I'd probably cut Time Reversal, Diminishing Returns, or Mystic Remora for it.

rkjunior: Yeah, the high mana cost, high blue devotion, and summoning sickness ruin the card for me in this build :( At least Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind does something when not able to tap, and still goes infinite with Mind Over Matter.

weiman: Will do! :)

Do you have enough answers to Alms Collector ? It's very dangerous and every white deck can use it.

Gamered: I haven't had to play against it yet, so if I end up running into it I'll get back to you. But I think I should be fine:

1) I'm running 4 cards that can directly remove it (Snapback, Mystic Confluence, Chaos Warp, and Jace, the Mind Sculptor).

2) Many of my combos don't rely on drawing multiple cards at one time. Murder of Crows and Kindred Discovery draw 1 repeatedly, as does Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind+Mind Over Matter. Skullclamp+Mana Echoes still works.

3) It actually enables me to infinite combo if I control Consecrated Sphinx. In fact, it lets me deck them in the process, haha.

4) If worst comes to worst, I can still counter it :)

I like the deck it's very well tuned. Maybe you should put in parentheses the descriptions of the combo tabs? For example, as a relatively new player I have no idea what storm combos or infinite loot combos are so that part of the description doesn't do too much for me.

The biggest worry I have with my Locust God EDH deck is .

Fate unraveller

narshol: You might need more removal, then. I ran Molten Disaster for a while, which might help you :) You could also try something like Reality Shift if it's a problem, or more counterspells.

But honestly I'm willing to take 1 damage per card. I'm certain I can find removal before I die to it, heh.

My deck draws the whole deck in one draw spell cast. Last time I play tested, I had Mirage Mirror, Thought Reflection and put out a whirlpool warrior using mirage mirror to copy thought reflection. 13 cards in hand turned in to 39, then I popped the warrior to do it again.

narshol: Yeah, I've had something similar happen with Mindmoil+Alhammarret's Archive. It's a pretty sweet interaction.

How did you get your deck to have so many upvotes?

ChrisKrow popular decks snowball. This is the most popular locust god deck, people looking up the locust god see this, and generally upvote it. it's a cruel system that keeps the popular, popular and the unknown, unknown, but thats what deckcycling is for. also, popular creators have followers, and the followers generally upvote the decks the creators make

ChrisKrow: What LeoSushi said isn't wrong, per se, but it's not the complete story :)

I hope that clarifies your question ;)

I see. Now I'll ask straight away. I just made a Rhonas the Indomitable, hope that you can check it out, leave a suggestion and maybe an upvote. Thanks!

ChrisKrow: I'll give you the same answer I've been giving most people recently - I'm in the last week of an internship at NASA, so my time is pretty limited. I can look it over in a week once I'm more free, though!

And if you enjoy this deck, you're welcome to give an upvote as well ;)

The Lord made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts, they invaded all Egypt and settled down in every area of the country in great numbers. Never before had there been such a plague of locusts, nor will there ever be again. They covered all the ground until it was black. They devoured all that was left after the hail, everything growing in the fields and the fruit on the trees. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Egypt. Exodus Ch10 V13-15

Love this deck! +1 and a feature ; )

Hi Daedalus19876, First time commenter and relatively new to edh. I'm making a Locust God deck similar to yours, albeit on a significantly smaller budget, and I stumbled across Lich's Mirror as a possible "reset" when using Kindred Discovery without Laboratory Maniac on the board.

I don't know that it's the best case scenario but it's better than decking yourself because someone kills of Lab Maniac in the middle of all the token spawn / draw combo.

Just thought I'd pass it along!

hamiam: I'm flattered by your comments, thank you man! I'm still only 1/12 of the way to matching your famous deck, heh.

Venom_Pistachio: Thanks for the upvotes and your thoughts! :) Honestly, the problem here is that I desperately need to update the deck's primer - I use Snapback and Stifle as my other methods of terminating that combo, so I'm not too concerned overall. Regardless, I'm happy I could inspire you! If you ever have any questions or want me to look over your build, just ask ;)

No problem! I did check later and noticed Stifle and Snapback were good coverage.

My other thought was that eventually, you pull Blue Sun's Zenith, which got me thinking that a Pili-Pala and Grand Architect combo would let you cast it infinitely, at which point you could use it offensively to mill your opponent(s). I'm not clear on whether you can do that all while the Kindred-Locust combo is going on, and I don't know whether there's much room for either of those cards in any case, but I like the idea of infinite mana!

My deck is actually based off of The Locust God and his friends, if you want to check it out. I don't have the full decklist put together but I'm planning to do a full inventory and post it at some point.

Venom_Pistachio: I eventually pulled out Blue Sun's Zenith - it was often a dead card, and only proved to be good with infinite mana (ie only one of my win-cons). Still, if you add a Grand Architect/Pili-Pala combo, I could definitely see its inclusion :)

That seems like a very good budget-ish build for The Locust God :) I should take a closer look sometime.

I came to report my first experience in a competitive scenario with this God. I have almost an 80% of the cards of this list, and I have to say that it's insane. We played a 5-person multiplayer game with all top tier commanders. I started very slow because I don't own the expensive mana rocks and I started with a bad hand (two islands for 4 turns!!!), so they ignored me and started killing each other. Finally, I could get my commander on the table and it was insane. For me at least, was difficult to be milled out, even though I used the Skullclamp-Ashnod's Altar combo because it was a matter of time until I found a Manalith (cheap Coalition Relic and Purphoros, God of the Forge. I won and I pulled a Damnation from an MM17 booster.

The deck is very strong, but I can say that Goblin Bombardmentwas a good addition to the deck, in order not to lose all my little locusts without doing much while the table was destroyed like 5 times. I also added a couple more counters in order to stop some fancy Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite and to protect the commander, because the deck relies too much on it, so that is its weak point.

Overall, the deck is terrific! I trying to get the mana rocks soon in order to unleash the locusts! Keep the good work!

Just thinking of other ways to trigger Locust God.. What about Mind's Eye? I feel like Smuggler's Copter could do some work here, too.

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