The Swarm

by A_Cardinal_Sin on 23 March 2013

Main Deck (99 cards)

Sideboard (1 card)

Creatures (1)

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Deck Description

This deck is my crowning achievement. The epitome of my Magic career. It's gone through a dozen different iterations, all with their own pros and cons. This most recent version combines a moderate amount of mana ramp, with ridiculous potential for token generation. Throw in a dash of recycle and search, and you've got yourself a recipe for victory.

Prior versions of this deck made up to 18 different types of tokens. But to better improve this deck's early and late game, I removed a few things in favor of mana ramp and graveyard recycle. Here is a list of the 14 different types of tokens this deck currently creates:

X/X Black Minion
0/0 Black Ooze
0/1 Colorless Eldrazi Spawn [sacrifice for mana]
1/1 Black Harpy [flying]
1/1 Black Wolf [deathtouch]
1/1 Black Assassin [combat damage = game loss]
1/1 Green Saproling
1/1 Green Snake
2/2 Green Wolf
2/2 Black Zombie
3/3 Green Beast
3/3 Colorless Wurm [deathtouch]
3/3 Colorless Wurm [lifelink]
5/5 Green Wurm [trample]

How to Play

Despite being black and green, this deck has enough innate control built in to make it play like a blue and white deck. Make tokens, then use your enchantments and sac engines to clear the opponent's field, mill them, and systematically take away their options.

Because this deck's creature removal depends not on destroying, but making players sacrifice, things like hexproof, shroud, and indestructibility mean nothing. Don't be afraid to sacrifice more than just your tokens if necessary. There are ways to bring back nearly everything from both your own graveyard, or your opponents'.

Lastly, I tend to keep Jarad in the command zone until I'm ready to end the game. Wait until you have a stupidly big creature pumped up through various means, then bring him out and sac it. I only wish the loss of life incurred as a result was actually commander damage.

Deck Tags

  • Commander
  • EDH
  • Jarad
  • Golgari
  • Swarm
  • Vraska
  • Glissa

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for The Swarm

Recently got back into Magic (I played when Urza block was Standard)...and have to say, playing against token decks, your deck would be aggravating to play against! Good job!

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Posted 27 October 2013 at 22:13

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Heh. I definitely consider that a compliment. My friends hate going against this monster too.

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Posted 28 October 2013 at 02:29

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