Friends: Renai's Korean Bug

Format: Commander

Commander: The Locust God

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is an Izzet wheel and token swarm strategy led by The Locust God. Its game plan focuses on establishing a reliable mana base, deploying the commander on Turn 5 or 6, and converting massive card draw into lethal swarms of 1/1 flying Insect tokens with haste. Cards like Windfall, Tolarian Winds, and Skullclamp generate high bursts of tokens in a single turn, while damage multipliers such as Purphoros, God of the Forge, Impact Tremors, and Shared Animosity turn raw card draw into immediate table-wide lethality. The deck features strong reactive protection through efficient counterspells and equipment, and its commander naturally evades commander tax by returning to hand upon death. Although it lacks fast mana acceleration and dedicated tutors, its high draw density and redundant token payoffs allow it to consistently overwhelm the table by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Aetherspouts
  • 1 Alandra, Sky Dreamer
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Body of Knowledge
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Castle Embereth
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commit // Memory
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Decaying Time Loop
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Devilish Valet
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Keranos, God of Storms
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord of Change
  • 1 Magnus the Red
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Monastery Siege
  • 13 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Retrieval
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nadir Kraken
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
  • 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
  • 1 Ovika, Enigma Goliath
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadow Puppeteers
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Strixhaven Stadium
  • 1 Struggle for Project Purity
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Teferi, Master of Time
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 The Locust God
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Throne of the God-Pharaoh
  • 1 Tolarian Winds
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Volcanic Offering
  • 1 Whirlpool Warrior
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Wizard Class