Zask by Guruthom

Format: Commander

Commander: Zask, Skittering Swarmlord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This Golgari deck utilizes Zask, Skittering Swarmlord to turn the graveyard into an expansive secondary hand for lands and Insect creatures. The game plan focuses on establishing early ramp, filling the graveyard through self-mill, and deploying high-synergy token generators like Scute Swarm, Hornet Queen, and Izoni, Thousand-Eyed. Once Zask enters the battlefield, every dying Insect triggers additional self-mill while restocking the library, creating a resilient loop of recursive threats. The deck converts this wide token presence into victory through combat buffs from Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest and The Swarmweaver, or through direct life drain with Aatchik, Emerald Radian and Cauldron of Essence. While it lacks fast combo finishes and countermagic, the deck excels at sustained resource generation, high-density tribal redundancy, and grinding through conventional removal. Targeted removal and utility Insects provide steady interaction while the swarm steadily overwhelms opposing life totals across the midgame.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aatchik, Emerald Radian
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
  • 1 Ant Queen
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blightbeetle
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Broodhatch Nantuko
  • 1 Canoptek Scarab Swarm
  • 1 Canoptek Tomb Sentinel
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Caustic Caterpillar
  • 1 Circuit Mender
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crash of Rhino Beetles
  • 1 Crawling Infestation
  • 1 Crawling Sensation
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Giant Ankheg
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Huskburster Swarm
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Living Hive
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Moldgraf Millipede
  • 1 Molt Tender
  • 1 Nantuko Elder
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Scute Mob
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seedship Broodtender
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spring-Leaf Avenger
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swarmyard Massacre
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Hunger Tide Rises
  • 1 The Swarmweaver
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord