Insect tribal by user6167123

Format: Commander

Commander: Grist, the Hunger Tide

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is an Insect tribal aristocrats strategy led by Grist, the Hunger Tide. Grist operates as a self-mill engine, token producer, and repeatable removal piece from the command zone, benefiting from the unique rule that treats it as a 1/1 Insect creature in all zones other than the battlefield. The game plan focuses on filling the graveyard with creature cards through Grist's loyalty ability, dredgers, and mill cards like Ripples of Undeath and Perpetual Timepiece. Once the graveyard is sufficiently stocked, the deck pivots into massive token generation using Izoni, Thousand-Eyed, Aatchik, Emerald Radian, and Scute Swarm. Win conditions center on overwhelming combat attacks buffed by Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest and The Swarmweaver, explosive life drain from Cauldron of Essence and Grist's ultimate, or resolving a game-ending Living Death. The deck boasts rapid engine recovery thanks to abundant reanimation effects, though it remains vulnerable to targeted graveyard exile and creature sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aatchik, Emerald Radian
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bone Harvest
  • 1 Broodhatch Nantuko
  • 1 Carrion Grub
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Caustic Caterpillar
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crawling Infestation
  • 1 Crawling Sensation
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Devouring Swarm
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Footbottom Feast
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Forever Young
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Gene Pollinator
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gravepurge
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Huskburster Swarm
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
  • 1 Liliana's Talent
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Masked Vandal
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Moldgraf Millipede
  • 1 Molt Tender
  • 1 Mortician Beetle
  • 1 Nantuko Elder
  • 1 Nantuko Husk
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Seedship Broodtender
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spring-Leaf Avenger
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Stinging Cave Crawler
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swarmyard Massacre
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 The Swarmweaver
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Vraska, Golgari Queen
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord