GolgariGrind by user7976324

Format: Commander

Commander: Old Rutstein

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari graveyard midrange and reanimation strategy led by Old Rutstein. The deck leverages its commander early to smooth mana, create token fodder, and steadily mill creature cards into the graveyard. Dense self-mill engines like Six, Ripples of Undeath, Grisly Salvage, and Stitcher's Supplier quickly fill the graveyard to power up scaling threats. The deck converts this resource into victory through potent reanimation spells such as Reanimate, Victimize, and Dread Return, deploying game-ending payoffs like Craterhoof Behemoth or attacking with Kessig Cagebreakers. Alternatively, Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord turns massive creatures like Splinterfright and Old Stickfingers into direct table-wide burn. With strong permanent removal and multiple redundant recursion paths, the deck maintains high resilience against single-target disruption while applying lethal pressure by Turns 5 to 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Brawn
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crawling Infestation
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathbloom Ritualist
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Farseek
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Genesis
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kagha, Shadow Archdruid
  • 1 Kessig Cagebreakers
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Old Rutstein
  • 1 Old Stickfingers
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Overwhelming Remorse
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Rumbleweed
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Splinterfright
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vengeful Pharaoh
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth