Magic: The Gathering - Fumulus, The Infestation Commander Deck Guide

Fumulus, the Infestation is one of the legendary creatures featured in Magic: The Gathering's Jumpstart set. It's a mono black commander, meaning you can only play black and colorless cards in your deck. However, this is hardly a downside.

A Fumulus, the Infestation deck is all about sacrificing creatures. This comes in the way of sacrificing your own creatures, and forcing your opponents to sacrifice theirs. The restriction to only black cards doesn't hurt the deck, as most of the mass sacrifice and enables for sacrifice strategies are in the color anyway. If you like flooding the battlefield with tokens and sacrificing a ton, Fumulus, the Infestation is the perfect commander for you.

Decklist

Commander: Fumulus, the Infestation
Abyssal Gatekeeper	Accursed Marauder	Archfiend of Depravity	Ayara, First of the Locthwain	Blood Artist	Braids, Arisen Nightmare
Brood of Cockroaches	Butcher of Malakir	Canoptek Scarab Swarm	Crypt Ghast	Demon's Disciple	Devouring Swarm
Endless Cockroaches	Fleshbag Marauder	Gravelighter	Infestation Sage	Merciless Executioner	Mirkwood Bats
Morbid Opportunist	Mortician Beetle	Pitiless Plunderer	Plaguecrafter	Rankle, Master of Pranks	Rottenmouth Viper
Sheoldred, Whispering One	Viscera Seer	Warren Soultrader	Wasteland Raider	Wriggling Grub	Zulaport Cutthroat
Blasphemous Edict	Innocent Blood	Make an Example	Mire in Misery	Reanimate	Rise of the Dark Realms
Season of Loss	Swarmyard Massacre	Toxic Deluge	Deadly Dispute	Diabolic Edict	Flare of Malice
Plumb the Forbidden	Sheoldred's Edict	Soul Shatter	Sudden Edict	Szat's Will	Village Rites
Vona's Hunger	Arcane Signet	Ashnod's Altar	Bontu's Monument	Fellwar Stone	Jet Medallion
Mind Stone	Skullclamp	Sol Ring	Thought Vessel	Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher	Animate Dead
Bastion of Remembrance	Black Market	Dictate of Erebos	Revel in Riches	Cabal Stronghold	Castle Locthwain
Phyrexian Tower	Spymaster's Vault	x26 Swamp	Swarmyard	War Room	Witch's Cottage

The decklist contains 30 creatures, nine sorceries, ten instants, ten artifacts, six enchantments, and 34 lands. The majority of the deck is cards that force your opponents to sacrifice creatures or to benefit from your own creatures dying.

Key Cards

Fumulus, The Infestation

The commander, Fumulus, the Infestation is what makes the deck function. It turns any player sacrificing a token into a 1/1 Insect token. Notably, Fumulus counts both you sacrificing your own cards as well as your opponents sacrificing.

Fumulus counts every instant of a nontoken creature dying to trigger, so if multiple creatures are sacrificed at once, they'll all give you a 1/1 Insect with flying.

The second effect helps you to push your advantage and regain life you lost in the earlier stages of the game. The tokens that Fumulus makes also give you your own sacrifice fodder, letting you get rid of weaker creatures as opposed to your key ones when you need to sacrifice a creature too. However, sacrificing these tokens won't net you new ones.

Dictate Of Erebos

Dictate of Erebos is one of the best cards in the entire deck. It causes any creature dying on your battlefield to force all your opponents to sacrifice a creature. Dictate of Erebos doesn't care how the creature dies, so it dying from sacrificing them yourself or by dying in combat, both will trigger Dictate of Erebos.

The biggest benefit to Dictate of Erebos is it becomes a prime removal target. This allows you to keep your commander safer, as Dictate of Erebos will be prioritized when it comes to dealing with a permanent.

Mirkwood Bats

You are going to be making a ton of creature tokens, so Mirkwood Bats is the best card for turning those tokens into burn damage. The burn happens when a token is created or sacrificed, giving a lot of your burn cards an extra kick.

The burn from Mirkwood Bats combined with the burn from Fumulus quickly stacks up, the two complimenting what the other wants to do perfectly. It turns the tokens generated from Fumulus into damage, and if you opt to sacrifice those token creatures, you'll still get the value that Fumulus doesn't provide on its own.

Meathook Massacre II

Meathook Massacre II is a way to get a ton of extra value out of your creatures. A lot of creatures in the deck enter and make every player sacrifice a creature. By paying three life, you can sacrifice that creature and bring it back right away to force everyone to sacrifice two creatures.

Most of the time, paying the X for Meathook Massacre isn't worth it unless it's late in the game. It's better to get it down early than to wait to have enough mana to turn on its sacrifice ability.

More often than not, your opponent will opt to pay three life as opposed to giving you a creature they sacrifice. However, since the deck can win through burn damage, this chip damage is something that eventually your opponents can't risk paying, giving you extra creatures to work with.

Blood Artist

Blood Artist is one of the most consistent ways to get extra burn damage. It triggers off of any creature dying, and with how many creatures will die throughout a match, it's not unlikely Blood Artist very quickly does damage in the double digits.

Blood Artist can only target one player with its effect. As such, it's best to use it on the opponent that's the biggest threat. You can also use it on an opponent you aren't attacking with the creatures that cause burn damage from Fumulus to keep the burn spread out evenly to all opponents.

How To Play The Deck

A Fumulus, the Infestation deck is all about forcing everyone to sacrifice creatures and slowly building up value and resources from it. This is largely done in the way of burn damage, both from Fumulus' effect and the effect of various permanents.

Your best source of forced sacrifice are creatures that cause everyone to sacrifice a creature, as they trigger Fumulus a total of four times. These cards include Accursed Marauder, Demon's Disciple, Fleshbag Marauder, and Merciless Executioner. You also have mass sacrifice options in Make an Example and Blasphemous Edict which both act as board wipes.

You have multiple payoffs for creatures dying as well. Revel in Riches gives you Treasure tokens and an alternate win condition, Black Market gives you ramp that grows with the death of every creature, and Dictate of Erebos leads to more creatures being sacrificed.

The primary win condition of the deck is winning through burn and combat. Fumulus can make a lot of creature tokens with flying (making them harder to block) and burn with all of them. If your opponent doesn't have blockers, they each essentially do two damage. Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance, and Mirkwood Bats help to get extra burn damage to close out games. Alternatively, you can win with Revel in Riches by having ten or more Treasures at your upkeep.

The biggest downside of the deck is its lack of plays in the early game. You have a few one-drops, but it takes a while for your sacrifice plays to get going. In addition, your commander needs to stick to the battlefield. Without Fumulus, it becomes much harder to reach your win condition. Luckily, there is a decent bit of lifegain in the deck, which helps to catch back up in life while taking your opponents' life totals down.

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