Grist "I always come back" by couch

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari Graveyard Midrange and Reanimator Swarm strategy commanded by Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm. The deck uses low-cost self-mill creatures and artifacts to fill the graveyard rapidly while developing mana. Once Grist transforms into a planeswalker by recurring cards like Bloodghast or Reassembling Skeleton, it creates an ongoing stream of deathtouch Insect tokens and Mills deeper into the library. The deck converts this graveyard into a decisive win on Turn 5 using mass reanimation spells like Living Death or focused reanimation via Victimize and Buried Alive. Payoffs such as Craterhoof Behemoth, Massacre Wurm, Syr Konrad, the Grim, and Aatchik, Emerald Radian quickly drain opposing life totals and deliver lethal combat damage across all three opponents on Turn 6. The deck exhibits outstanding recovery thanks to its low commander casting cost and heavy recursion redundancy.

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 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
  • 1 Footbottom Feast
  • 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 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squirming Emergence
  • 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