The Locust God

Gameplan

The Locust God turns every card draw into a flying, hasty 1/1 Insect, so you build a wide swarm by chaining draw spells and engines, then convert that board into damage. Early turns set up card-draw rocks and cantrips; mid-game you deploy the God and a draw engine, then close with a mass pump, sacrifice payoff, or sheer attack volume. Its built-in recursion makes it nearly impossible to remove permanently.

Key Cards

• Skullclamp — Equip a 1/1 Insect, it dies, and you draw two cards making two more Insects—an infinite-feeling token loop.
• The Locust God — The engine itself; every draw becomes a hasty flyer and it always comes back from the dead.
• Ashnod's Altar — Sacrifices tokens for mana to fuel draw loops and combos, and enables Skullclamp engines.
• Purphoros, God of the Forge — Each Insect entering deals 2 damage to all opponents, turning the swarm into a direct-damage kill.
• Reservoir of Karma — N/A
• Bident of Thassa — Forces attackers and draws on combat damage, snowballing your token count.
• Cyclonic Rift — Resets opposing boards so your swarm and engines close unimpeded.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana (Sol Ring, Mana Crest, signets) and stronger wheels (Wheel of Fortune, Echo of Eons) to deploy the engine earlier and bigger. Tighten the combo package—Skullclamp, Ashnod's Altar, Purphoros, and Earthcraft/Thornbite Staff—so you have a deterministic kill, and round out with protection (Heroic Intervention, Teferi's Protection) and interaction (Counterspell, Cyclonic Rift) to survive sweepers.