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Zask, Skittering Swarmlord

Zask, Skittering Swarmlord

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

You may play lands and cast Insect spells from your graveyard. Whenever another Insect you control dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library, then mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) {1}{B/G}: Target Insect gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. ({B/G} can be paid with either {B} or {G}.)
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What Zask, Skittering Swarmlord actually does

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What a Zask, Skittering Swarmlord deck wants

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Best cards for Zask, Skittering Swarmlord

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.

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  2. Aftermath Analyst2 mana
  3. Millikin2 mana
  4. Skull Prophet2 mana
  5. Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm1 mana
  6. Molt Tender1 mana
  7. Six3 mana
  8. Deathbonnet Sprout // Deathbonnet Hulk1 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Haywire Mite1 mana
  2. Springheart Nantuko2 mana
  3. Scute Swarm3 mana
  4. Duskshell Crawler2 mana
  5. Bilious Skulldweller1 mana
  6. Caustic Caterpillar1 mana
  7. Gene Pollinator1 mana
  8. Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm1 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Phyrexian Tower0 mana
  2. High Market0 mana
  3. Grim Backwoods0 mana
  4. Lazotep Quarry0 mana
  5. Susur Secundi, Void Altar0 mana
  6. Scavenger's Talent1 mana
  7. Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn0 mana
  8. Miren, the Moaning Well0 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Aftermath Analyst2 mana
  4. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  5. Mindcrank2 mana
  6. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  7. Codex Shredder1 mana
  8. Smuggler's Surprise1 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Defile1 mana
  3. Tragic Slip1 mana
  4. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  5. Fatal Push1 mana
  6. Beast Within3 mana
  7. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  8. Nature's Claim1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  4. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  5. Innocent Blood1 mana
  6. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  7. Forced March3 mana
  8. Nature's Ruin3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Lively Dirge2 mana
  6. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  7. Imperial Seal1 mana
  8. Insatiable Avarice1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  7. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  8. Beast Whisperer4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  2. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  3. Cryptothrall4 mana
  4. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  5. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  6. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  7. Asceticism5 mana
  8. Eldrazi Monument5 mana

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