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Fumulus, the Infestation
Legendary Creature — Vampire Insect · {3}{B} · Black commander
Flying, deathtouch
Whenever a player sacrifices a nontoken creature, create a 1/1 black Insect creature token with flying.
Whenever an Insect, Leech, Slug, or Worm you control attacks, defending player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
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What Fumulus, the Infestation 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 · sacrificeWhenever a player sacrifices a nontoken creature, create a 1/1 black Insect creature token with flying.
- Triggered ability · otherWhenever an Insect, Leech, Slug, or Worm you control attacks, defending player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch
What a Fumulus, the Infestation deck needs
Plays as insect typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- free sacrifice outlets and expendable permanents (its payoff fires on every sacrifice)
- insect/leech/slug/worm creatures (its text counts them)
- a wide board that attacks every turn (the trigger fires on the attack)
The Fumulus, the Infestation deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 6× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 12× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 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
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Fumulus, the Infestation
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.
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Carrion Feeder1 mana
- Viscera Seer1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
- Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
- Dark Privilege2 mana
- Ashnod's Altar3 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Bilious Skulldweller1 mana
- Hex Parasite1 mana
- Battlefly Swarm1 mana
- Mortician Beetle1 mana
- Stirge1 mana
- Circuit Mender3 mana
- Balemurk Leech2 mana
- Blightbeetle2 mana
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Eumidian Hatchery0 mana
- Infestation Sage1 mana
- Endless Cockroaches3 mana
- Wriggling Grub2 mana
- Deadly Grub3 mana
- Infesting Radroach3 mana
- Filigree Crawler4 mana
- Canoptek Tomb Sentinel4 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Patchwork Banner3 mana
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Adaptive Automaton3 mana
- Captivating Vampire3 mana
- Chief of the Foundry3 mana
- Icon of Ancestry3 mana
- Banner of Kinship5 mana
- Vanquisher's Banner5 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
- Brotherhood Regalia2 mana
Combos with Fumulus, the Infestation
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Fumulus, the Infestation is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Fumulus, the Infestation + Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Blood Artist2,672 decks
- Fumulus, the Infestation + Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Zulaport Cutthroat2,408 decks
- Fumulus, the Infestation + Viscera Seer + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer1,966 decks
- Fumulus, the Infestation + Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Sephiroth, Fabled Soldier1,798 decks
- Fumulus, the Infestation + Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Bastion Of Remembrance1,481 decks
- Fumulus, the Infestation + Nether Traitor + Phyrexian Altar1,313 decks
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