Warhammer 40,000 Commander

Creature — Tyranid Mutant

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Trample
Heavy Power Hammer — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls.

Aberrant

Enchantment

If you would draw a card, you may instead choose land or nonland and reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and put all other cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Abundance

Creature — Tyranid Human

Heavy Rock Cutter — Whenever this creature attacks, destroy up to one target artifact. If an artifact is destroyed this way, its controller draws a card.

Acolyte Hybrid

Instant

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Aetherize

Artifact

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Arcane Signet

Land

{T}: Add {C}.
Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Ash Barrens

Creature — Human Tyranid Scout

Trample, haste
Skilled Outrider — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Atalan Jackal

Creature — Human Tyranid Wizard

Genomic Enhancement — {T}: Add one mana of any color. If this mana is spent to cast a creature spell, that creature enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Biophagus

Artifact — Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks, put four +1/+1 counters on it.
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Bone Sabres

Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Bred for the Hunt

Creature — Tyranid

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Brood Telepathy — When this creature enters, distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of other target creatures you control.

Broodlord

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Cave of Temptation

Land — Mountain Forest

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Cinder Glade

Creature — Human Tyranid Artificer

Proclamator Hailer — Each creature you control gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Clamavus

Command Tower

Tower Winder

Sorcery

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Cultivate

Whenever a creature you control dies, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the power of the creature that died.

Death's Presence

Legendary Creature — Tyranid

Flash
Haste
Flesh Hooks — Creatures you control that entered this turn have double strike.

Deathleaper, Terror Weapon

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Evolving Wilds

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Bio-plasmic Barrage — When this creature enters, it deals X damage to each player and each other creature.

Exocrine

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Exotic Orchard

You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.

Explore

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Farseek

Forest

Gilt-Leaf Alchemist

Basic Land — Forest

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}, {U}, or {R}.

Frontier Bivouac

As this land enters, you may reveal a Mountain or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Game Trail

Tyranid Gargoyle

Gargoyle Flock

Creature — Tyranid Gargoyle

Flying
Skyswarm — At the beginning of your end step, if a creature entered the battlefield under your control this turn, create a 1/1 blue Tyranid Gargoyle creature token with flying.

Neurotraumal Rod — Whenever a creature attacks you, it gets -1/-0 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature attacks one of your opponents, it gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Genestealer Locus

Genestealer Patriarch

Copy

Genestealer's Kiss — Whenever this creature attacks, put an infection counter on target creature defending player controls.
Children of the Cult — Whenever a creature with an infection counter on it dies, you create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a Tyranid in addition to its other types.

Legendary Creature — Tyranid Human

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)
Three Autostubs — Whenever another source you control deals exactly 1 damage to a permanent or player, Ghyrson Starn deals 2 damage to that permanent or player.

Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph

Artifact — Vehicle

Stowage — Whenever this Vehicle attacks, put two +1/+1 counters on another target attacking creature.
Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Goliath Truck

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Hardened Scales

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Harrow

Rapacious Hunger — Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Devouring Monster — {T}, Remove X +1/+1 counters from this creature: Add X mana of any one color.

Haruspex

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Herald's Horn

Frenzied Metabolism — As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each counter removed this way.
Reach, vigilance, ward {2}
Titanic — This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

Hierophant Bio-Titan

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Endless Swarm — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay {2}{G}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Hormagaunt Horde

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Destroy target artifact and target enchantment.

Hull Breach

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
{3}, {T}: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card of the chosen type from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Icon of Ancestry

Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Inspiring Call

Basic Land — Island

Island

Lictor

Tyranid Warrior

Flash
Pheromone Trail — When this creature enters, if a creature entered the battlefield under an opponent's control this turn, create a 3/3 green Tyranid Warrior creature token with trample.

Flying
Scavenge the Dead — When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each creature card exiled this way.

Malanthrope

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Terror from the Deep — When this creature enters, it fights up to one target creature an opponent controls. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Mawloc

Basic Land — Mountain

Mountain

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant land
When this Aura enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Enchanted land has "{T}: Add two mana of any one color."

New Horizons

Creature — Human Tyranid Advisor

Strategic Coordinator — Basic lands you control have "{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only on costs that contain {X}."

Nexos

Tyranid

Old One Eye

Trample
Other creatures you control have trample.
When Old One Eye enters, create a 5/5 green Tyranid creature token.
Fast Healing — At the beginning of your first main phase, you may discard two cards. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Opal Palace

Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}{G}.

Overgrowth

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Path of Ancestry

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Vanguard Species — Whenever this creature attacks, you may remove a +1/+1 counter from it. If you do, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Purestrain Genestealer

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Rampant Growth

Flash
Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
When this creature enters, target creature attacks target opponent this turn if able.

Ravener

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Rugged Highlands

Trample
Bio-Plasmic Scream — Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 5 or greater, this creature deals 5 damage to any target.

Screamer-Killer

The first creature spell you cast each turn costs {2} less to cast.
Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

Shadow in the Warp

Sol Ring

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Defender
Spore Chimney — When this creature enters, search your library for up to X basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sporocyst

Starstorm deals X damage to each creature.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Starstorm

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Temple of Abandon

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Temple of Epiphany

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Temple of Mystery

Termagant Swarm

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Death Frenzy — When this creature dies, create a number of 1/1 green Tyranid creature tokens equal to this creature's power.

Terramorphic Expanse

Tervigon

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Trample
Spawn Termagants — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many 1/1 green Tyranid creature tokens.

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. If its mana cost contains {X}, it enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of lands you control.
II, III — Double the number of each kind of counter on target creature you control.

The First Tyrannic War

Advanced Species — Whenever a red source you control deals damage to one or more permanents and/or players, put a +1/+1 counter on The Red Terror.

The Red Terror

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Thornwood Falls

Reach, deathtouch
Hypertoxic Miasma — All lands have "{T}: Add one mana of any color" and lose all other abilities.

Toxicrene

Subterranean Assault — Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it and a +1/+1 counter on up to one other target attacking creature. That creature can't be blocked this turn.

Trygon Prime

Tyranid Harridan

Flying, ward {4}
Shrieking Gargoyles — Whenever this creature or another Tyranid you control deals combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 blue Tyranid Gargoyle creature token with flying.

Tyranid Invasion

Create a number of 3/3 green Tyranid Warrior creature tokens with trample equal to the number of opponents you have.

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Synapse Creature — Other creatures you control have evolve.

Tyranid Prime

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Shieldwall — Sacrifice this creature: Creatures you control with counters on them gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Tyrant Guard

As this land enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Unclaimed Territory

Venomthrope

Flying, haste
The Will of the Hive Mind — Other creatures you control with counters on them have flying and haste.

Winged Hive Tyrant

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Flying, ward {2}
Warp Blast — When this creature enters, it deals X damage to any target.

Zoanthrope

Rapid Regeneration — The Swarmlord enters with two +1/+1 counters on it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game.
Xenos Cunning — Whenever a creature you control with a counter on it dies, draw a card.

The Swarmlord

Legendary Creature — Human Tyranid Wizard

Spiritual Leader — At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Psychic Stimulus — {T}: Add {C}{C}. When you next cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost or activate an ability with {X} in its activation cost this turn, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Mana value	Creatures	Instants & sorceries	Artifacts	Enchantments
0	0	0	0	0
1	3	0	1	1
2	7	5	1	0
3	9	3	3	4
4	10	2	1	1
5	4	0	0	1
6	3	0	0	1
7+	1	0	0	0

Item	Mana symbols (of symbols in costs)	Mana sources (of mana-producing cards)
Blue	21%	22%
Red	21%	24%
Green	58%	26%

Turn	On the play	On the draw
1	97	98
2	89	93
3	76	83
4	60	69
5	44	54
6	30	39
7	19	27

Item	Value
Lands	39
Creatures	37
Instants & sorceries	10
Enchantments	8
Artifacts	6

Item	Value
Common	38
Uncommon	17
Rare	43
Mythic	2

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Tyranid Swarm (Warhammer 40,000 Preconstructed Commander Deck)

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Item	Value
Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph	$27.27
Shadow in the Warp	$15.27
Biophagus	$13.63
Sporocyst	$8.54
Nexos	$8.23
The Red Terror	$6.10