Swarm, Being of Bees

MSC · common · Released 2026-06-26

Power

brawl

trapFillertrap

commander

trapFillertrap

Tier shown as baseline → best-case (in its ideal shell).

Derived from the 7 atoms below.

under

below rate

incremental

minor value alone

synergy

wants support

caps

fixed effect

flexible

multiple modes

narrow

situational

fragile

easily answered

Commander Bracket

1Precon2Core3Upgraded4Optimized5cEDH

Archetypes

positive:

wheelsreanimator

negative:

No active conflicts.

Roles

evasive-threataggressive-creaturemidrange-threat

Risks

slow-setupconditional-trigger

Mechanics

mech-mayhem

Typal

synergy:

—

anti:

—

Structural

alternative-cost

Rationale

A 3cmc 2/2 with flash and flying that has Mayhem {B}, allowing it to be recast from the graveyard for {B} if discarded this turn. The stat line and evasion are respectable for a common, but the Mayhem payoff requires discard synergy (wheels, Faithless Looting effects) to be meaningful. In Commander or Brawl it's too modest a body to stand on its own; it's primarily a discard-matters roleplayer in wheels or Rakdos-style discard shells.

Learnings (2)

Mayhem is a discard-from-hand requirement — the card must be discarded on the same turn you cast it from the graveyard, making it strictly synergistic with wheels, looting effects, or discard outlets rather than a general graveyard-recursion tool.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
At only {B} mayhem cost, Swarm is one of the cheapest mayhem threats to re-deploy after a wheel, making it a reasonable payoff in low-to-the-ground black discard shells that generate multiple discard triggers per turn.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6

Popularity

EDHREC rank: #13,182