grist by trpaul93

Format: Commander

Commander: Grist, the Hunger Tide

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari Insect tribal and graveyard aristocrats strategy commanded by Grist, the Hunger Tide. Because Grist counts as a 1/1 Insect creature card in all non-battlefield zones, it synergizes seamlessly with creature-based self-mill and tribal effects. The game plan centers on deploying early Insect utility creatures and self-mill engines, then using Grist's +1 ability to generate Insect tokens while filling the graveyard. The deck leverages topdeck-stacking spells such as Forever Young and Bone Harvest to guarantee long Grist +1 chains, simultaneously swelling Grist's loyalty and building a massive board of tokens. Victory is achieved either by activating Grist's -5 ultimate to drain the table based on creature count in the graveyard, overwhelming opponents through combat with tribal buffs from Aatchik, Emerald Radian and The Swarmweaver, or leveraging mass life drain via Syr Konrad, the Grim and Living Death.

Decklist (97 cards)

  • 1 Aatchik, Emerald Radian
  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Blightbeetle
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bone Harvest
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Broodhatch Nantuko
  • 1 Canoptek Scarab Swarm
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Caustic Caterpillar
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crawling Infestation
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Footbottom Feast
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Forever Young
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Gene Pollinator
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gravepurge
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Masked Vandal
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Molt Tender
  • 1 Mortician Beetle
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seedship Broodtender
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spring-Leaf Avenger
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Stinging Cave Crawler
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swarmyard Massacre
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 The Hunger Tide Rises
  • 1 The Swarmweaver
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vraska, Golgari Queen
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord