GolgariGrind by user7976324

Format: Commander

Commander: Old Rutstein

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari graveyard midrange engine commanded by Old Rutstein. It focuses on filling the graveyard quickly through self-mill creatures and spells, transforming milled cards into an expanding army of Insect tokens, Treasure mana, and Blood filtering. The deck leverages powerful undergrowth synergies and high-impact recursion cards like Six, Victimize, and Reanimate to cheat massive threats onto the battlefield ahead of curve. As the graveyard fills with creature cards, game-ending finishers like Craterhoof Behemoth, Kessig Cagebreakers, Izoni, Thousand-Eyed, and Rumbleweed overwhelm opposing boards with massive trample combat damage or direct drain via Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord. Dense low-cost acceleration and versatile removal spells such as Assassin's Trophy, Deadly Rollick, and Toxic Deluge keep opposing threats in check while maintaining continuous board development. Even through board wipes, the deck recovers rapidly by replaying low-cost engines and recurring key pieces directly from the graveyard.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brawn
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crawling Infestation
  • 1 Crawling Sensation
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathbloom Ritualist
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Farseek
  • 7 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 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
  • 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 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Overwhelming Remorse
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 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 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 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