Grist "I always come back" by couch

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This Golgari deck utilizes Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm at the helm of a fast, resilient graveyard reanimation and token swarm strategy. The game plan focuses on rapid early self-mill using efficient engines such as Hermit Druid, Stitcher's Supplier, and Ripples of Undeath to fill the graveyard with utility creatures, lands, and game-ending threats. The deck easily flips Grist on Turn 3 or 4 by recurring creatures like Bloodghast or Reassembling Skeleton, generating a steady stream of deathtouch Insect tokens. On Turn 5, the deck transitions into a lethal finish by resolving Living Death, executing a Buried Alive line into Victimize, or leveraging counter doublers like Doubling Season to immediately trigger Grist's ultimate ability. The resulting board of Craterhoof Behemoth, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, and Syr Konrad, the Grim eliminates all three opponents in a single decisive turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aatchik, Emerald Radian
  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Biorhythm
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Demolisher Spawn
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravepurge
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 1 Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Old Stickfingers
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Tato Farmer
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Swarmweaver
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 World Shaper
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord