Insects by user4700692

Format: Commander

Commander: Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Jund Insect tribal deck helmed by Szarel, Genesis Shepherd, built around a three-axis engine of landfall, sacrifice, and insect tribal synergy. Szarel's first ability lets you play lands from your graveyard, feeding a dense landfall package (Mossborn Hydra, Scute Swarm, Retreat to Hagra, Oran-Rief Hydra) while his second ability turns every sacrificed permanent into a burst of +1/+1 counters on a chosen creature. The deck runs 20+ insects, leveraging Aatchik, Emerald Radian (token generation and drain), Phyrexian Swarmlord (infect tokens), and Path of Ancestry (scry). Sacrifice outlets like The Gitrog Monster, Titania, Protector of Argoth, and Hearthhull, the Worldseed convert lands into cards, tokens, and commander triggers. Primary wins are combat damage with pumped or token creatures, drain from Syr Konrad, the Grim and Aatchik, and the alternate Strixhaven Stadium.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aatchik, Emerald Radian
  • 1 Agitator Ant
  • 1 Altanak, the Thrice-Called
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badlands Revival
  • 1 Baloth Prime
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Bant Panorama
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blightbeetle
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Devouring Swarm
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Environmental Scientist
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Eumidian Terrabotanist
  • 1 Eumidian Wastewaker
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Fanatical Strength
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Foul Orchard
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Golbez, Clad In Darkness
  • 1 Gruesome Fate
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Hearthhull, the Worldseed
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Highland Forest
  • 1 Insectoid Exterminator
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Invader Parasite
  • 1 Iridescent Hornbeetle
  • 1 Ivy Lane Denizen
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Krenko's Buzzcrusher
  • 1 Lair of the Hydra
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Luca Stadium
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Meltstrider Eulogist
  • 1 Mightform Harmonizer
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nantuko Blightcutter
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Oran-Rief Hydra
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Swarmlord
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Retreat to Hagra
  • 1 Retreat to Kazandu
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Roaring Earth
  • 1 Rust Scarab
  • 1 Sabotender
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sazh's Chocobo
  • 1 Scute Mob
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shantotto's Coercion
  • 1 Shared Summons
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spring-Leaf Avenger
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Tunneling Geopede
  • 1 Twisted Landscape
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Virus Beetle
  • 1 Vraska, Golgari Queen
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline