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Amzu, Swarm's Hunger

Legendary Creature — Insect Shaman · {3}{B}{G} · Black/Green commander

Flying, menace Other Insects you control have menace. Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, you may create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the greatest mana value among those cards. Do this only once each turn.

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What Amzu, Swarm's Hunger actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · otherWhenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, you may create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the greatest mana value among those card
• Static ability · keyword_grantOther Insects you control have menace.
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · menacemenace

What an Amzu, Swarm's Hunger deck needs

Plays as insect typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
• cards leaving your graveyard — flashback, escape, delve and reanimation (each one triggers it)
• creatures that profit from menace (it grants the team it)
• insect creatures (its text counts them)

The Amzu, Swarm's Hunger deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 10× A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
• 8× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Amzu, Swarm's Hunger

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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