---
name: "It of the Horrid Swarm"
mana_cost: "{8}"
cmc: 8
type_line: "Creature — Eldrazi Insect"
colors: []
color_identity: ["G"]
keywords: ["Emerge"]
set: "INR"
set_name: "Innistrad Remastered"
collector_number: "6"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Jason Felix"
oracle_id: "f4ad190a-6c82-4923-af54-b4cce8d6465f"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/it-of-the-horrid-swarm-inr"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# It of the Horrid Swarm
- **Mana Cost:** `{8}` (CMC: 8)
- **Type:** Creature — Eldrazi Insect
- **Keywords:** Emerge

## Oracle Text
Emerge {6}{G} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When you cast this spell, create two 1/1 green Insect creature tokens.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Lashweed Lurker](/printing/lashweed-lurker-emn.md) — Creature — Eldrazi Horror
2. [Abundant Maw](/printing/abundant-maw-inr.md) — Creature — Eldrazi Leech
3. [Amzu, Swarm's Hunger](/printing/amzu-swarms-hunger-clu.md) — Legendary Creature — Insect Shaman
4. [The Swarmweaver](/printing/the-swarmweaver-dsk.md) — Legendary Artifact Creature — Scarecrow
5. [Mockery of Nature](/printing/mockery-of-nature-emn.md) — Creature — Eldrazi Beast
6. [Scouring Swarm](/printing/scouring-swarm-eoc.md) — Creature — Insect

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Innistrad Remastered (INR) #6
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Jason Felix

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2025-01-24)* You may sacrifice a creature with a mana value of 0, such as a token creature that’s not a copy of another permanent, to cast a spell for its emerge cost. You’ll just pay the full emerge cost with no reduction.
- *(2025-01-24)* If you sacrifice a creature with {X} in its mana cost, that X is 0.
- *(2025-01-24)* An ability that triggers when a player casts a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack without resolving.
- *(2025-01-24)* If you cast a spell for another cost “rather than paying its mana cost,” such as an emerge cost, you can’t choose to cast it for any other alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast it.
- *(2025-01-24)* Colored mana components of emerge costs can’t be reduced with emerge.
- *(2025-01-24)* A creature’s mana value is determined solely by the mana symbols printed in its upper right corner (unless that creature is the back face of a double-faced card, is a melded permanent, or is copying something else; see below). If the mana cost includes {X}, X is 0. If it’s a single-faced card with no mana symbols in its upper right corner (because it’s an animated land, for example), its mana value is 0. Ignore any alternative costs or additional costs (such as kicker) that were paid as the creature was cast.