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The Locust God

Legendary Creature — God4 generic manaBlue manaRed mana

The engine here is a feedback loop built on a single conversion rate: each card drawn becomes a flying, hasty body, and each body is a clock. The second ability is what closes that loop, because it lets you spend mana to churn draws even when your library is not otherwise doing the work; every loot trigger is another Insect. Stack enough draw-per-turn effects and the token count runs away from the board faster than most decks can process it, which is the whole point of building around a god whose reward for card advantage is measured in creatures rather than options. The death trigger is the design discipline that keeps it viable as a repeatable resource: rather than exiling it, it simply comes back to hand at the next end step, so a removal spell buys an opponent one turn and a recast cost, not a permanent answer. That recursion also makes the body itself less relevant than the trigger it carries; the 4/4 flier is almost incidental to a card that wants to sit at the top of a draw-matters pile and manufacture an army. Blue-red has circled the "draw a card, get a benefit" theme for years, from cantrip-fueled tempo to storm-adjacent value; this is the version that turns the benefit into a self-contained win condition.

The Locust God (mp2)
MP2 · #51special
Pricing
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Foil: $119.38
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever you draw a card, create a 1/1 blue and red Insect creature token with flying and haste. 2 generic manaBlue manaRed mana: Draw a card, then discard a card. When The Locust God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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