Maggot Graves by OwlBearLover

Format: Commander

Commander: Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated Golgari Graveyard Reanimator list centered on Grist, Voracious Larva. The primary strategy accelerates early mana, fills the graveyard through efficient self-mill engines, and transforms Grist to generate a continuous stream of Insect tokens and card velocity. Once a critical mass of creature cards fills the graveyard, the deck resolves powerful mass reanimation spells such as Rise of the Dark Realms or Lich-Knights' Conquest, or establishes lethal drain combinations using Syr Konrad, the Grim, Aatchik, Emerald Radian, and Blood Artist. High card density in recursion and mill ensures resilient engine rebuilding even after board wipes. The deck operates smoothly on curve, using utility creatures for removal and land ramping, before closing out multiplayer games around turn 7 through combat damage and unblockable death-trigger drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aatchik, Emerald Radian
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Broodheart Engine
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Coiling Rebirth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Fiend Artisan
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Forge of Heroes
  • 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Lich-Knights' Conquest
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Noose Constrictor
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Oblivion Crown
  • 1 Old Rutstein
  • 1 Old Stickfingers
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seedtime
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Squirming Emergence
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz
  • 1 Terror Tide
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Tomb Fortress
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Wave of Vitriol
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat