insect madness by user1094694

Format: Commander

Commander: Grist, the Hunger Tide

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This Golgari deck utilizes Grist, the Hunger Tide as both an engine piece and a reliable removal outlet from the command zone. The deck focuses heavily on Insect tribal synergies and self-mill mechanics, steadily filling the graveyard to fuel Undergrowth triggers, mass reanimation, and token production. The primary route to victory involves amassing a swarm of Insect tokens through Grist, Scute Swarm, and Izoni, Thousand-Eyed, which are then converted into lethal damage via Overrun or asymmetric life loss through Mirkwood Bats and Aatchik, Emerald Radian. While resilient against single-target attrition thanks to multiple recursion spells like Victimize and Dread Return, the deck relies on conventional combat steps and lacks instant-speed protection against sweepers and graveyard exile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aatchik, Emerald Radian
  • 1 Altanak, the Thrice-Called
  • 1 Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
  • 1 Ant Queen
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blightbeetle
  • 1 Bone Harvest
  • 1 Broodguard Elite
  • 1 Broodhatch Nantuko
  • 1 Carrion Grub
  • 1 Caustic Caterpillar
  • 1 Circuit Mender
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crawling Sensation
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Devouring Swarm
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dredger's Insight
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Footbottom Feast
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Forever Young
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Gene Pollinator
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Huskburster Swarm
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kraul Harpooner
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Masked Vandal
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moldgraf Millipede
  • 1 Molt Tender
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Mortician Beetle
  • 1 Nantuko Elder
  • 1 Nantuko Husk
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overrun
  • 1 Phantom Nantuko
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Saber Ants
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Mob
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spineseeker Centipede
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Spring-Leaf Avenger
  • 1 Strangled Cemetery
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Vorapede
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Webstrike Elite
  • 1 Webweaver Changeling
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Winding Way
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord