Endless Swarm is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
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Official card text
Create a 1/1 green Snake creature token for each card in your hand. Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability.)
How it works : Endless Swarm
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
No additional ruling has been published for this card.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Eye of the Storm + Hive Mind + Endless Swarm + Aether Flash
Opponents can't cast spellsLock
- 1Cast Endless Swarm.
- 2Endless Swarm is exiled with Eye of the Storm.
- 3Choose to not cast your copy of Endless Swarm with Eye of the Storm.
- 4Hive Mind triggers, and all other players are forced to cast Endless Swarm.
- 5All other players may not cast any other spells for the rest of the game because of Endless Swarm's Epic ability, and all of their snakes die on ETB to Aether Flash.
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#2
Eye of the Storm + Hive Mind + Endless Swarm + Night of Souls' Betrayal
Opponents can't cast spellsLock
- 1Cast Endless Swarm by paying
. - 2Eye of the Storm and Hive Mind trigger.
- 3Resolve the Eye of the Storm trigger, exiling Endless Swarm, and then copying each instant and sorcery card exiled with Eye of the Storm, and allowing you to cast the copies without paying their mana costs.
- 4Choose not to cast the copy of Endless Swarm as permitted by Eye of the Storm.
- 5Resolve the Hive Mind trigger from step 2, causing each opponent to copy Endless Swarm.
- 6Resolve the first opponent's copy of Endless Swarm, causing them to create a 1/1 Snake creature token for each card in their hand, and then be unable to cast spells for the rest of the game.
- 7The Snakes enter the battlefield and die as a state-based action due to having 0 toughness.
- 8Repeat from step 6 for each remaining Endless Swarm copy.
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#3
Eye of the Storm + Hive Mind + Endless Swarm + Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
Opponents can't cast spellsLock
- 1Cast Endless Swarm by paying .
- 2Eye of the Storm and Hive Mind trigger.
- 3Resolve the Eye of the Storm trigger, exiling Endless Swarm, and then copying each instant and sorcery card exiled with Eye of the Storm, and allowing you to cast the copies without paying their mana costs.
- 4Choose not to cast the copy of Endless Swarm as permitted by Eye of the Storm.
- 5Resolve the Hive Mind trigger from step 2, causing each opponent to copy Endless Swarm.
- 6Resolve the first opponent's copy of Endless Swarm, causing them to create a 1/1 Snake creature token for each card in their hand, and then be unable to cast spells for the rest of the game.
- 7The Snakes enter the battlefield and die as a state-based action due to having less than 0 toughness.
- 8Repeat from step 6 for each remaining Endless Swarm copy.
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#4
Eye of the Storm + Hive Mind + Endless Swarm + Engineered Plague
Opponents can't cast spellsLock
- 1Cast Endless Swarm by paying .
- 2Eye of the Storm and Hive Mind trigger.
- 3Resolve the Eye of the Storm trigger, exiling Endless Swarm, and then copying each instant and sorcery card exiled with Eye of the Storm, and allowing you to cast the copies without paying their mana costs.
- 4Choose not to cast the copy of Endless Swarm as permitted by Eye of the Storm.
- 5Resolve the Hive Mind trigger from step 2, causing each opponent to copy Endless Swarm.
- 6Resolve the first opponent's copy of Endless Swarm, causing them to create a 1/1 Snake creature token for each card in their hand, and then be unable to cast spells for the rest of the game.
- 7The Snakes enter the battlefield and die as a state-based action due to having 0 toughness.
- 8Repeat from step 6 for each remaining Endless Swarm copy.
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#5
Eye of the Storm + Hive Mind + Endless Swarm + Crovax, Ascendant Hero
Opponents can't cast spellsLock
- 1Cast Endless Swarm by paying .
- 2Eye of the Storm and Hive Mind trigger.
- 3Resolve the Eye of the Storm trigger, exiling Endless Swarm, and then copying each instant and sorcery card exiled with Eye of the Storm, and allowing you to cast the copies without paying their mana costs.
- 4Choose not to cast the copy of Endless Swarm as permitted by Eye of the Storm.
- 5Resolve the Hive Mind trigger from step 2, causing each opponent to copy Endless Swarm.
- 6Resolve the first opponent's copy of Endless Swarm, causing them to create a 1/1 Snake creature token for each card in their hand, and then be unable to cast spells for the rest of the game.
- 7The Snakes enter the battlefield and die as a state-based action due to having 0 toughness.
- 8Repeat from step 6 for each remaining Endless Swarm copy.
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#6
Eye of the Storm + Hive Mind + Endless Swarm + Kaervek, the Spiteful
Opponents can't cast spellsLock
- 1Cast Endless Swarm by paying .
- 2Eye of the Storm and Hive Mind trigger.
- 3Resolve the Eye of the Storm trigger, exiling Endless Swarm, and then copying each instant and sorcery card exiled with Eye of the Storm, and allowing you to cast the copies without paying their mana costs.
- 4Choose not to cast the copy of Endless Swarm as permitted by Eye of the Storm.
- 5Resolve the Hive Mind trigger from step 2, causing each opponent to copy Endless Swarm.
- 6Resolve the first opponent's copy of Endless Swarm, causing them to create a 1/1 Snake creature token for each card in their hand, and then be unable to cast spells for the rest of the game.
- 7The Snakes enter the battlefield and die as a state-based action due to having 0 toughness.
- 8Repeat from step 6 for each remaining Endless Swarm copy.
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