WORKING ON! Elves Grist (trying out elves) by user9140759

Format: Commander

Commander: Grist, the Hunger Tide

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari Elfball and Aristocrats hybrid commanded by Grist, the Hunger Tide. The primary game plan accelerates mana in the opening turns using efficient one-drop mana dorks such as Llanowar Elves, Fyndhorn Elves, and Priest of Titania. It transitions into mid-game board building by deploying Grist to create Insect tokens, fill the graveyard, and pick off priority threats with its sacrifice ability. The deck converts this wide creature presence into victory on turns 6 and 7 using mass overrun spells like Triumph of the Hordes, Overwhelming Stampede, and Ezuri, Renegade Leader, or via direct life-drain effects from Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, Skemfar Shadowsage, and Exsanguinate. While the deck possesses explosive mana velocity and solid graveyard recovery through Living Death and Reanimate, its primary vulnerability lies in its reliance on committing multiple vulnerable creatures to the battlefield without native mass haste, making it susceptible to well-timed board sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beorn the Fierce
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cantankerous Keepers
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Champions of the Perfect
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Down in the Valley
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Harbinger
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Erebos's Intervention
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gilt-Leaf Palace
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Perfect Morcant
  • 1 Hissing Quagmire
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jaspera Sentinel
  • 1 Khalni Garden
  • 1 Life // Death
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lys Alana Huntmaster
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Miara, Thorn of the Glade
  • 1 Nameless Inversion
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Pact of the Serpent
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Skemfar Avenger
  • 1 Skemfar Shadowsage
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sudden Edict
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Treetop Village
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Tromell, Seymour's Butler
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wirewood Herald
  • 1 Wirewood Symbiote
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician