we can be bees mark (for owens) by user9896439

Format: Commander

Commander: Xira, the Golden Sting

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck executes an aggressive aristocrats and token swarm strategy led by Xira, the Golden Sting. Xira has haste and immediately marks opponent or player creatures with egg counters upon attacking. When marked creatures perish to targeted removal, combat, or sacrifice outlets, you draw cards and assemble an army of flying 1/1 Insects. The deck scales this engine by combining token multipliers like Parallel Lives, graveyard recursion engines like Zask, Skittering Swarmlord, and aristocrat drain engines like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Mirkwood Bats, and Impact Tremors. You close games either through massive life drain loops powered by free sacrifice outlets or by overwhelming the board with a buffed insect swarm.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
  • 1 Ant Queen
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Canoptek Scarab Swarm
  • 1 Caustic Caterpillar
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Generous Patron
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Great Fierce Bee
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Hunger Tide Rises
  • 1 The Swarmweaver
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Xira, the Golden Sting
  • 1 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat