The Swarmlord (Copy) by threnaria

Format: Commander

Commander: The Swarmlord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Temur Tyranid deck built around +1/+1 counters, Ravenous X-cost creatures, and the hidden commander Magus Lucea Kane. The Swarmlord acts as a recursive draw engine that grows with each recast, while cards like Biophagus, Hardened Scales, and Renata widen the counter plan. The primary win is the All Will Be One + The Red Terror counter/damage loop, with a combat fallback using trample, flying, and haste. The deck wants to ramp early, pack the board with huge creatures, and then convert either the combo or an overwhelming attack into the kill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aberrant
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Biophagus
  • 1 Biosynthic Burst
  • 1 Bred for the Hunt
  • 1 Broodlord
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Emil, Vastlands Roamer
  • 1 Exocrine
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Froghemoth
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Haruspex
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 Hierophant Bio-Titan
  • 1 Hormagaunt Horde
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Magus Lucea Kane
  • 1 Malanthrope
  • 1 Mawloc
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Nexos
  • 1 Old One Eye
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Overgrowth
  • 1 Overprotect
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Purestrain Genestealer
  • 1 Quilled Greatwurm
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rattleclaw Mystic
  • 1 Raucous Audience
  • 1 Renata, Called to the Hunt
  • 1 Scavenging Ooze
  • 1 Screamer-Killer
  • 1 Shadow in the Warp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Sporocyst
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Termagant Swarm
  • 1 Tervigon
  • 1 The First Tyrannic War
  • 1 The Red Terror
  • 1 The Swarmlord
  • 1 Trygon Prime
  • 1 Tyranid Harridan
  • 1 Tyranid Prime
  • 1 Tyrant Guard
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Venomthrope
  • 1 Vexing Shusher
  • 1 Winds of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Winged Hive Tyrant
  • 1 Zoanthrope