the swarm by user5747633

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a green-black self-mill and sacrifice value deck that uses its graveyard as a second hand and turns creature cards into Insect armies. The primary plan is to fill the bin early, then flip Grist, Voracious Larva into Grist, the Plague Swarm by returning a creature from the graveyard; the back face mills to grow the yard, produces Insect tokens, and eventually uses its -6 to copy every creature card in the graveyard into an overwhelming swarm. Secondary paths are combat beats with End-Raze Forerunners, incremental draining from Fumulus and Hooded Blightfang, and Grist, the Hunger Tide's -5 life-loss backup. The deck is resilient through recursion but vulnerable to graveyard exile.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Aatchik, Emerald Radian
  • 1 Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
  • 1 Ant Queen
  • 1 Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Champion
  • 1 Broodheart Engine
  • 1 Broodspinner
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Crawling Infestation
  • 1 Cult Conscript
  • 1 Deadbridge Chant
  • 1 Demonic Gifts
  • 1 Drag to the Roots
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 End-Raze Forerunners
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Final Vengeance
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 14 Forest
  • 1 Foul Orchard
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Hooded Blightfang
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Live or Die
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Living Hive
  • 1 Mai, Scornful Striker
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Moldgraf Millipede
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortician Beetle
  • 1 Nantuko Elder
  • 1 Old Rutstein
  • 1 Old Stickfingers
  • 1 Persistent Specimen
  • 1 Poison Dart Frog
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sidisi, Regent of the Mire
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Squirming Emergence
  • 19 Swamp
  • 1 The Hunger Tide Rises
  • 1 The Swarmweaver
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord