Editing Golgari Swarm (section)

==History==
The Golgari Swarm was originally created to deal with dead bodies (possibly by making them zombies), and feeding the homeless (possibly to zombies), and their core belief is that [[Nurgle|death and decay are important parts of the cycle of life]]; in a nutshell, they believe that nature is comprised of a great cycle of birth, death, decay and rebirth, and that the key to power is tapping into all of the aspects of this cycle. They are aligned with the Green and Black colors of Mana, which represents that viewpoint well, and wield a weird combination of necromancy and druidic magic, with a big emphasis on inducing decay, controlling & manipulating fungal growth, raising the dead, commanding vermin, and afflicting others with parasitic vermin & fungus. A Golgari defense formation usually consists of waves of predatory mushrooms, slime-like masses of carnivorous lichen or mold, zombies (often infested with bugs or fungus for extra nastiness) and giant bugs, backed by the outcast humanoids who make up the actual rot-farmers, fungus-druids and necromancers. Like the Rakdos, Dimir and Simic, the Golgari occupy the underground of Ravnica, tending to claim the damper regions where they can cultivate their precious fungus and vermin for food.

The original Golgari who signed the Guildpact was Svothgir, who was killed by the Sisters of Stone Death, three Gorgons, and then replaced by the [[Elf]]-[[Lich]] Savra. Who was also killed. Then came back as a lich. And then killed again. And replaced by Jarad. Who was also killed. And then came back as a [[Lich]].
 
In fact in the entire history of the Golgari and Ravnica they are the guild whose leaders have been killed the most. Seriously, they can't hold on to a decent leader. The only reason Jarad has seemingly remained in power is because nobody else in Ravnica cares. 

Most of the Golgari is composed of humans, zombies, elves, plant-zombies (which are apparently zombies animated by fungus, similar to the D&D [[Dusanu]]), [[Medusa|gorgons]], [[myconid|mushroom]] [[vegepygmy|people]], giant beetles, kraul (bug-people), and [[troll]]s (like the living under bridges and regenerating kind, not the internet kind.) Ancient lore suggests the presence of other monstrous humanoids, like [[harpy|harpies]], but there are no cards supporting this.

Recent history has been pretty sad for the Golgari. Despite getting the first green-black planeswalker in the form of [[Vraska]], they contributed next to nothing to the recent story.