The Piper's Plague - Totentanz, Swarm Piper
Commanded by Totentanz, Swarm Piper
107 cards. No tracked games yet.
How it has actually done
Not a rating — results from Commander games recorded at a table. See commander stats worth tracking and what mmr means in magic, which rates the deck rather than its pilot.
Combos in this deck
4 combos · 4 infinite — looked up in Commander Spellbook, which only knows the ones somebody has written up, so this deck can hold more than these and never fewer.
INFINITE Ayara, First of Locthwain + Plague of Vermin
INFINITE Mirkwood Bats + Plague of Vermin
INFINITE Plague of Vermin + Goblin Bombardment + Nadier's Nightblade
Show the other 1 combo
Bracket 4 — Optimized
A floor, not a verdict — read off the cards in the list, so a deck can play higher than this and never lower. Read how the commander bracket system works, and bring it to your Rule 0 conversation.
- a two-card infinite combo (Ayara, First of Locthwain + Plague of Vermin) — more than Bracket 3 allows
What it's built out of
Measured against the Balanced Midrange blueprint. Counts overlap and sum past 100 — a card counts toward every job it does, which is how deck builders count; see the 100-card commander deck template.
Slot by slot — 5 slots are outside their band, 4 inside
| Slot | In the deck | Target | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lands | 37 | 37 | On target |
| Ramp | 13 | 10 | 3 over |
| Card advantage | 14 | 10 | 4 over |
| Spot removal | 5 | 8 | 3 short |
| Board wipes | 2 | 3 | On target |
| Creatures | 36 | 28 | 8 over |
| Recursion | 7 | 3 | 4 over |
| Protection | 1 | 3 | On target |
| Tutors | 2 | 2 | On target |
| Artifacts | 9 | — | No target |
| Enchantments | 7 | — | No target |
| Instants | 9 | — | No target |
| Sorceries | 9 | — | No target |
| Graveyard hate | 1 | — | No target |
| Token makers | 26 | — | No target |
| Sacrifice outlets | 11 | — | No target |
Mana curve
Average mana value 2.67 across 70 nonland cards, against a target of 3.54. More on what makes a good curve and on building the mana base.
- 0-1 16
- 2 19
- 3 17
- 4 9
- 5 5
- 6 2
- 7+ 2
The decklist
107 cards, grouped by the main job each one does. Every name links to its own page — win rate, the commanders it's most played under, and the colors it turns up in.
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- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Bojuka Bog
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Dark Fortress
- 1 Dragonskull Summit
- 1 Exotic Orchard
- 1 Foreboding Ruins
- 1 Graven Cairns
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Luxury Suite
- 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
- 3 Mountain
- 1 Mudflat Village
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Shadowblood Ridge
- 1 Smoldering Marsh
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 10 Swamp
- 1 Swarmyard
- 1 Tainted Peak
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Three Tree City
Card Advantage 13
Tokens 13
Ramp 12
Creature 8
Recursion 5
Enchantment 3
Sacrifice Outlet 3
Board Wipe 2
Sorcery 2
Instant 1
Tutor 1
Still identifying 2
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Commander 1 Totentanz, Swarm Piper Deck 1 Arcane Signet 1 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain 1 Bedevil 1 Blackcleave Cliffs 1 Blasphemous Act 1 Blazemire Verge 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway 1 Blood Crypt 1 Bloodstained Mire 1 Bojuka Bog 1 Bontu's Monument 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 1 Chaos Warp 1 Chittering Witch 1 Command Tower 1 Copy 1 Curse of Opulence 1 Dark Fortress 1 Deadly Dispute 1 Diabolic Intent 1 Dockside Chef 1 Dragonskull Summit 1 Exotic Orchard 1 Foreboding Ruins 1 Garna, Bloodfist of Keld 1 Gnawing Crescendo 1 Gnawing Vermin 1 Goblin Bombardment 1 Gold 1 Graven Cairns 1 Gruesome Fate 1 Harried Spearguard 1 Haunted Ridge 1 Heraldic Banner 1 Impact Tremors 1 Jet Medallion 1 Karumonix, the Rat King 1 Lich-Knights' Conquest 1 Lord Skitter's Blessing 1 Lord Skitter's Butcher 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King 1 Luxury Suite 1 Mad Ratter 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire 1 Marrow-Gnawer 1 Mirkwood Bats 3 Mountain 1 Mudflat Village 1 Nadier's Nightblade 1 Ogre Chitterlord 1 Ogre Slumlord 1 Pack Rat 1 Persistent Marshstalker 1 Phyrexian Tower 1 Piper of the Swarm 1 Pitiless Plunderer 1 Plague of Vermin 1 Plumb the Forbidden 1 Rakdos Signet 1 Rat 1 Rat 1 Rat King, Pale Piper 1 Ratcatcher 1 Reassembling Skeleton 1 Redcap Gutter-Dweller 1 Revenge of the Rats 1 Shadowblood Ridge 1 Shared Animosity 1 Skullclamp 1 Smoldering Marsh 1 Sol Ring 1 Song of Totentanz 1 Squirrel 1 Sulfurous Springs 10 Swamp 1 Swarmyard 1 Swarmyard Massacre 1 Tainted Peak 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire 1 Talisman of Indulgence 1 Tangled Colony 1 Tattered Ratter 1 Terminate 1 Three Tree City 1 Toxic Deluge 1 Treasure 1 Twisted Sewer-Witch 1 Typhoid Rats 1 Undercity Dire Rat 1 Valley Rotcaller 1 Village Rites 1 Voracious Vermin 1 Wicked // Cursed 1 Withering Torment
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