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Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This Golgari deck leverages Grist, Voracious Larva alongside dense self-mill engines to convert the graveyard into a dynamic resource hub. Early turns focus on milling cards via Hermit Druid, Stitcher's Supplier, and Mesmeric Orb while generating 1/1 Insect tokens. By Turn 4, the deck establishes an active engine, quickly transitioning on Turn 5 into game-ending reanimation lines. Resolving Living Death, Victimize, or Dread Return retrieves massive game-enders like Craterhoof Behemoth, Massacre Wurm, or Syr Konrad, the Grim, overwhelming opposing life totals with trample-boosted swarms and death triggers. In addition, counter multipliers like Doubling Season and Innkeeper's Talent allow Grist to ultimate immediately upon transforming, duplicating every creature in the graveyard as an insect army. While the deck lacks stack protection and cEDH fast mana, its deep redundancy, rapid recovery, and overwhelming token scaling make it a lethal, resilient midrange threat.

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 Assassin's Trophy
  • 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
  • 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 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 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