grist 2.0 by Beandaddy1899

Format: Commander

Commander: Grist, the Hunger Tide

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is commanded by Grist, the Hunger Tide, focusing on self-mill, Insect tribal synergy, and token aristocrats. Grist functions as both an engine piece and repeatable removal from the command zone. The deck deploys low-curve utility creatures and token producers such as Chatterfang, Squirrel General, Scute Swarm, and Springheart Nantuko while milling creature cards into the graveyard. Mana acceleration relies on creature-based converters like Cryptolith Rite, Enduring Vitality, and Warren Soultrader. The game plan builds toward a decisive Turn 6 combat onset using team-wide pump effects like Craterhoof Behemoth and Beastmaster Ascension, or game-warping graveyard swings via Living Death. While the deck possesses strong engine recovery through cards like Six and Zask, Skittering Swarmlord, its vulnerability to opposing sweepers and reliance on sorcery-speed interaction define its competitive boundaries.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Broodheart Engine
  • 1 Changeling Wayfinder
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Demonic Collusion
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Diabolic Revelation
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Forever Young
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Gene Pollinator
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravepurge
  • 1 Graveshifter
  • 1 Great Fierce Bee
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Increasing Ambition
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Liliana's Talent
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
  • 1 Masked Vandal
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mutable Explorer
  • 1 Nantuko Husk
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Oppression
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Seedship Broodtender
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spineseeker Centipede
  • 1 Spring-Leaf Avenger
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Stag Beetle
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Chain Veil
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Swarmweaver
  • 1 Three Tree Mascot
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Traverse the Ulvenwald
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord