Insects

[CuriousHeartless]

A bunch of Insects and Insect support. I first posted a lot of these a couple years ago, but things change in the game and I've done edits so time to bring 'em back.

 

Persistent Roach

DARK

Level 2

Insect/Effect

If this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard: You can Special Summon 1 "Persistent Roach" from your deck. During you Standby Phase, if there are three cards named "Persistent Roach" in your Graveyard: You can banish this card from your Graveyard; Special Summon 1 "Persistent Roach" from your Graveyard and shuffle 1 "Persistent Roach" from your Graveyard into the deck.

200 ATK/200 DEF

 

Insect Queen Larva

EARTH

Level 3

Insect/Effect

This card gains 200 ATK for each Insect-Type monster on the field. Tribute this card and 1 other Insect-Type monster you control: Special Summon 1 banished Level 5 or lower Insect-Type Monster.

500 ATK/800 DEF

 

Volume Spider

EARTH

Level 3

Insect/Effect

Up to twice per turn: You can add 1 "Noisy Gnat" or "Silent Strider" from your deck or Graveyard to your hand.

1000 ATK/1000 DEF

 

Colony Egg Tender

EARTH

Level 4

Insect/Effect

When this card is Normal Summoned: Add 1 "Insect Imitation" card from your deck to your hand.

1200 ATK/1200 DEF

 

Swarm of Bees

WIND

Level 4

Insect/Effect

This card can be treated as 2 tributes for the Tribute Summon of an Insect-Type Monster. Cannot be destroyed by battle while you control another Insect-Type Monster.

1200 ATK/1200 DEF

 

Orchid Mantis

EART

Level 4

Insect/Effect

One per turn: If this card is not a Plant-Type monster you may change this card's type to Plant, OR: If this card is not an Insect-Type monster you may change this card's type to Insect. Apply the appropriate following effect based on this card's Type: • Insect: This card can attack twice during the same Battle Phase. • Plant: This card gains 150 ATK for each Insect-Type monster you control.

1700 ATK/800 DEF

 

Army of Ants

EARTH

Level 5

Insect/Effect

If this card is banished: Special Summon 1 "Army Ant Token" (Insect-Type/EARTH/Level 4/ATK 500/DEF 1200).

1000 ATK/2400 DEF

 

Pheromone Courier

EARTH

Level 5

Insect/Effect

When this face-up card is sent to the Graveyard: You can Special Summon up to 2 Level 3 or lower Insect-Type Monsters from your deck.

2100 ATK/800 DEF

 

Black Widow Spider

DARK

Level 5

Insect/Flip/Effect

FLIP: Target up to 3 Defense Position Monsters; destroy those targets.

0 ATK/2600 DEF

 

Drone Empress

WIND

Level 6

If all monsters you control are Insect-Type (min 1), this card can be Normal Summoned without a Tribute. While all monsters you control are Insect-Type, you choose the target for your opponent's card effects with exactly one target.

2200/2200

 

Ectoplasm Webber

DARK

Level 7

Insect/Effect

Once per turn: Banish 2 Insect-type monsters from your Graveyard to target 1 Normal Spell in your Graveyard; then add it to your hand.

2400 ATK/2600 DEF

 

Angelic Moth

LIGHT

Level 8

Insect/Effect

You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by shuffling 3 of your banished Insect-Type monsters into your deck. This card gains 200 ATK and DEF for each of your banished Insect-Type monsters. During either player's turn: You may shuffle one of your banished Insect-Type monsters into your deck; this card gains 400 ATK and DEF until the end of the turn (This is a quick effect).

2300 ATK/2300 DEF

 

Pheromone Queen

EARTH

Level 8

Insect/Effect

This card gains 400 ATK for each Insect-type monster on the field. You can Tribute 3 monsters to Tribute Summon this card. If you do: Special Summon as many Level 3 or lower Insect-type monsters from your graveyard as possible.

2200 ATK/2400 DEF

 

Synchro Ringworm

DARK

Level 2

Insect/Tuner

You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) if you have summoned a Level 5 or higher Insect-Type Monster this turn. When this card is Special Summoned this way: You can raise or lower this card's level by 1.

500 ATK/800 DEF

 

Dimensionhopper

LIGHT

Level 5

Insect/Tuner

You can Special Summon this banished card by paying 1000 Life Points and Tributing 1 Insect-Type monster you control. Banish any monster destroyed by battle with this card.

2200 ATK/1500 DEF

 

Nimrod Spider

DARK

Level 5

Insect/Tuner

A Synchro Monster summoned using this card as a Synchro Material gains this effect.

•If this card is Summoned: Change all face-up monsters your opponent controls to face-up Defense Position.

2200 ATK/1400 DEF

 

Exploder Dragonflywing

WIND

Level 7

Insect/Synchro/Effect

1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner Insect-Type monsters

At the start of the Damage Step, if this card battles a monster: You can destroy all Spell/Trap cards with the same controller as the monster, and if you do, inflict damage to your opponent equal to 400 x the number of cards destroyed this way. This card's ATK must be greater than or equal to the ATK of that monster to activate and resolve this effect. If you use this effect, that monster is not destroyed by battle and any battle damage involving that monster this turn is reduced to 0.

2400 ATK/1600 DEF

 

Sun-Roller Scarab

FIRE

Level 7

Insect/Synchro/Effect

1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters.

When this card destroys a monster by battle: Place 1 Scarab Counter on this card; then for each Scarab Counter on this card, deal damage to your opponent equal to the destroyed monster's level x 100.

2600 ATK/2000 DEF

 

Galactipede, Macro Millipede

EARTH

Level 9

Insect/Synchro/Effect

1 Tuner + 2 or more Insect-Type non-Tuner monsters

This card can attack all monsters your opponent controls once each. If this card attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing battle damage to your opponent. When this card inflicts battle damage to your opponent: Banish the top card of their deck.

3000 ATK/2600 DEF

 

Insect Paladin

EARTH

Rank 4

Insect/Xyz/Effect

2 Level 4 monsters

Once per turn, during either player's turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; creatures you control cannot be destroyed by battle this turn and you take no battle damage this turn. If a monster attacks another monster and neither monster is destroyed by that battle: This card gains 300 ATK.

1900 ATK/2100 DEF

 

Grand Insect Imitation

Normal Spell

Tribute 2 monsters. Special Summon 1 Insect-Type monster from your Deck whose Level is equal to or lower than the combined levels of the tribute monsters.

 

Gathering Army Ants

Continuous Spell

Once per turn: You may discard 1 monster card to Special Summon 1 "Army Ant Token" (Insect-Type/EARTH/Level 4/ATK 500/DEF 1200).

 

Pheromone Trail

Continuous Spell

Once per turn: You can Banish 1 Insect-type monster from your Graveyard; Special Summon 1 Insect-type monster from your deck with the same level as the banished monster. Destroy the Special Summoned monster during the End Phase.

 

Plague Swarm

Continuous Spell

All Insect-type monsters you control gain 200 ATK for each Insect-type monster you control. All Insect-type monsters you control gain the 300 ATK for each Level 7 or higher Insect-type monster you control.

 

Grand Hive

Field Spell

The Insect-Type monster(s) you control with the highest level can't be targeted by your opponent's card effects. When an Insect-Type "Princess", "Queen", or "Empress" monster destroys a monster by battle, that card is banished instead of being sent to the Graveyard. During each player's End Step, if that player doesn't control a "Larva Token": They Special Summon 1 "Larva Token" (Insect-Type/EARTH/Level 1/ATK 0/DEF 0). "Larva Token" cannot be tributes except for the Tribute Summon of an Insect-Type Monster or to activate the effect of an Insect-Type Monster.

 

Swarm Protector

Normal Trap

Activate when a face-up Insect-Type monster you control is attacked. Negate that attack; You can also Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower Insect-type monster from your hand.

 

Drone Defense

Counter Trap

If you control an Insect-Type "Princess", "Queen", or "Empress" monster, you can discard this card from your hand to activate its effect. When an Insect-Type monster you control is targeted by your opponent's card effect: For the rest of the turn, Insect-Type monsters cannot be targeted by, or destroyed by, your opponent's card effects.

 

Drone Attack

Counter Trap

If you control an Insect-Type "Princess", "Queen", or "Empress" monster, you can discard this card from your hand to activate its effect. When your opponent Special Summons a monster: Banish 2 monsters from your Graveyard to target it; banish that target face-down.

 

Pollen Gather

Normal Trap

If you control an Insect-Type "Princess", "Queen", or "Empress" monster, you can discard this card from your hand to activate its effect. Draw 1 card.

 

 

Since it is rather narrow I took the "You can activate this card from your hand" ability and kicked it up. It now can be used even if you have a full backrow, and I think even if you can't use traps but I'm not sure there. As well discarding instead of sending to the grave to make sure Darklaw/Macro Cosmos/whatever doesn't stop them.

[DiplomatfromPluto]

Persistent Roach has an interesting effect. I'm sure it means destroyed by battle, though, so you can't return it if you used for summoning. But you could still dump them in the grave and put 2 back in play. They could be used for a rank 2 or helping with synchro/tribute summoning. 

 

If you had 5 monsters on the field including Insect Queen Larvae and the Plague Swarm spell and let's be generous and say 3 of them were level 7+, Larvae would go up to 2100 ATK, which is big for a level 3 but you're not going to beat your opponent with it and I don't think it's wise to expect a field of 5 semi-specific monsters and one spell card. Larvae's effect to ss a banished insect is a little more useful since some of your monsters rely on banishing. 

 

You haven't posted the monsters mentioned in Volume Spider's text so I couldn't speak about how good it would be to be able to search for those cards on a specific monster. 

 

Does Colony Egg Tender search for that "Grand Insect Imitation" spell? If so, it might be a decent combo. You could NS the monster, get the spell, then as long as you had another monster, you could special summon a lot of different monsters from your deck, depending on the level of the other monster. It's a bit slow though, and it requires you to use a NS, assuming the monster stays on the field. If you have other cards in mind that this monster could search for, it would be improved.

I should mention that the spell in question requires you to tribute any 2 monsters, and while there's no way other decks would use this because it can only summon insect-types, it seems like you should change the effect to tributing 2 insect types to summon an insect.

 

Swarm of Bees is better since you could tribute it for most of your higher level insects. 

 

Orchid Mantis' effects are inconsequential at 100 ATK boost, and being able to attack twice with only 1500 ATK won't help much. 

 

Pheromone Counter might not be too bad but its effect does rely on being destroyed. Black Widow is pretty good at 2600 DEF. As long as you flip a few of your opponent's monsters with another card, this could destroy a lot of monsters.

 

Angelic Moth has an ok summoning condition, its ATK gain effects are inconsequential.

 

Pheromone Queen could get pretty powerful if you loaded up your field and I can actually see her getting powerful enough to beat some monsters if you summon her by the tribute summon effect. 

 

Synchro ringworm is great. Free tuner and you can modify its level to make your synchros. Dimensionhopper is also a good tuner with an extra summoning effect. Nimrod Spider would help with Black Widow's effect. Some altogether good tuners. 

 

Dragonflywing might be a good way to get rid of some of your opponent's back row. Sun-Roller Scarab contains some MTG language but it could deal a lot of burn damage if it got a lot of counters. Galactipede also has MTG language; it's the strongest in terms of ATK but milling the top card, even for dealing piercing dmage, might actually help the opponent more than it hurts them.

 

Insect paladin mentions creatures rather than monsters. It seems a bit counter-productive since a lot of these cards have effects for being destroyed. I remember hearing about rank 4 monsters, they're very reactionary. They're meant to deal with something right now, and their's a lot of really good ones because they can be made so easily. It's detach effect gives it 200 ATK only if one of your monsters attacks a monster with the same ATK. I can't think of any way that would be helpful to this monster or any strategy that you might use.

 

Pheromone Trail is a pretty strong card and Swarm Protector is an ok way to get out more insects. 

 

Army of Ants is terrible by itself but if you Foolish Burial'd it and banished it with Ectoplasm Webber, you could get a spell in the hand and a level 4 token on the field. 

 

These cards have a bit of synergy with each other, I realize that they have a few ways to swarm the field, which would make their ATK boost effects more potent. I noticed that they all had low ATK for such high level monsters. Swarm of Bees would be absolutely essential to get your stronger insects out, Roach could be used as tribute fodder then get some of them back. Pheromone Queen could become a really powerful beater and you have some great tuners for some decent synchros. However, I don't think your Xyz or Orchid Mantis have any use in this deck. If you kept the Xyz as a generic though, it gives some nice protection. Angelic Moth and Ectoplasm seem like your main fuel for banishing. 

 

Even though these cards might have been meant as insect support, I think they could work better together, since I don't know of many prominent insect archetypes/decks. If they were used together, they do suffer a few problems. There's no protection whatsoever, meaning they can all be removed by card effects. With that in mind, it might be difficult to swarm the field. However, you could make some protection cards. Pot of Desires might be really good with this deck since it has a way of returning banished monsters (although I've heard people talking about banishing face-up vs. face-down, so that might be a problem. Foolish Burial would be amazing in this deck. The only way it could be better is if you made an insect-specific foolish, with some other effect on top of it. 

 

 

 

[CuriousHeartless]

I'm tired so I'll post more responses later, but thanks for the comments, and Silent Strider and Noisy Gnat are real cards.

[CuriousHeartless]

Alright now that I'm awake...again, thank you for the comments.

 

No Roach means destroyed in any way, hope that isn't too strong or anything since it can only search itself out. But I don't believe tributing a monster sets off "If destroyed" effects.

 

All ATK boosts raised by 100 except Orchid Mantis's which was bumped to 150, Angelic Moth's shuffle ability which was upped to 400 because it was supposed to be double the normal boost, and Pheromone Queen who already had a good boost (and Plague Swarm now gives an additional 200 for each level 7 or higher because they count to both of its effects).

 

Like I said, Noisy Gnat and Silent Strider are real, but for a quick explanation: They are level 2 Insects you can send from your hand to the graveyard to change one target's level for the rest of the turn. Noisy Gnat increases level by one, Silent Strider lowers it by one.

 

Yes Colony Egg Tender should search for Grand Insect Imitation. Normal Insect Imitation is any monster so I think I'll leave Grand Insect imitation as generic even if it won't be used in anything generic.

 

Mantis bumped to 1700, 2300 if you switch it to Plant and have four Insects.

 

Courier adjusted a bit.

 

Angelic Moth has lost its summoning conditions just because I like it a bit better this way.

 

Wording fixed on Scarab and Gallactipede. I want to keep deck destruction on Galactipede to reference Aztekipede and Doom Dozer but milling one really isn't that good...would banishing one card from the top of the deck work?

 

Insect Paladin changed up a bit.

 

You think Army of Ants could work better if it made two tokens?

 

A lot were made with the banishing to give Insects some sort of direction (inspired by Aztekipede and Doom Dozer) but not all of them play to that because I wasn't really trying to make an archetype. It also why Pheromone Queen doesn't really interact with banished cards.

 

Yeah there is a problem that Insects really aren't good except for a handful of good ones (and a couple broken ones *coughInzektorscough*) and the good ones like Level Eater aren't used for Insect decks. That's part of why I made support cards to begin with.

 

I'll post more cards, including the field spell Grand Hive that I've put in.

[CuriousHeartless]

Added three new traps that take the hand trap concept up a notch.

 

Added Drone Empress.

 

Also upped ATK on Ectoplasm Webber, Sun-Roller Scarab, and Galactipede.

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