Grist, the Hunger Tide by Wast3

Format: Commander

Commander: Grist, the Hunger Tide

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Golgari deck uses Grist, the Hunger Tide to lead an Insect tribal and graveyard aristocrats strategy. Because Grist is an Insect creature card in all hidden and graveyard zones, it synergizes seamlessly with creature recursion, Insect-specific buffs, and self-mill triggers. The early game focuses on deploying Grist on Turn 3 to generate 1/1 Insect tokens and rapidly fill the graveyard. Value engines like Six, Zask, Skittering Swarmlord, and Skullclamp convert these tokens and milled cards into substantial card flow and mana advantage. In the mid game, mass reanimation spells like Living Death and Patriarch's Bidding return a massive army of Insects alongside lethal drain engines such as Syr Konrad, the Grim, Aatchik, Emerald Radian, and Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest. The deck closes games on Turn 6 by combining combat swings, aristocrat sacrifice triggers, and Grist's -5 ultimate to drain the entire table simultaneously.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aatchik, Emerald Radian
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
  • 1 Ant Queen
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bane of the Living
  • 1 Blightbeetle
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bone Harvest
  • 1 Broodhatch Nantuko
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crawling Infestation
  • 1 Crawling Sensation
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathreap Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Forever Young
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gravepurge
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Huskburster Swarm
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
  • 1 Liliana's Talent
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Mortician Beetle
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Nantuko Elder
  • 1 Nantuko Husk
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Scute Mob
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seedship Broodtender
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swarmyard Massacre
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 The Hunger Tide Rises
  • 1 The Swarmweaver
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vorapede
  • 1 Vraska, Golgari Queen
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord