4 Billion Insects in a TrenchcoatšŸ› by quaddi

Format: Commander

Commander: Grist, the Hunger Tide

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Golgari kindred and aristocrats engine commanded by Grist, the Hunger Tide. Grist operates as a 1/1 Insect creature card in all zones outside the battlefield, granting the deck unique tutorability and low-cost creature reanimation lines. The primary strategy accelerates into an early Grist to generate Insect tokens, fill the graveyard, and remove problematic enemy permanents. Synergistic engines like Insidious Roots, Cryptolith Rite, and Skullclamp convert disposable tokens into mana velocity and massive card draw. The deck leverages high-impact swarm multipliers such as Scute Swarm, Springheart Nantuko, and Hornet Queen before closing out the game on Turn 5 with an explosive Craterhoof Behemoth fetched via Natural Order, or through Grist's loyalty ultimate empowered by Doubling Season. The deck exhibits rapid engine recovery due to abundant graveyard recursion, though it remains vulnerable to mass creature board wipes and graveyard exile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aatchik, Emerald Radian
  • 1 Altanak, the Thrice-Called
  • 1 Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
  • 1 Ashes of the Fallen
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blightbeetle
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brain Maggot
  • 1 Broodguard Elite
  • 1 Canoptek Scarab Swarm
  • 1 Canoptek Tomb Sentinel
  • 1 Carrion Grub
  • 1 Caustic Caterpillar
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Endless Cockroaches
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Forever Young
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Genesis
  • 1 Golgari Findbroker
  • 1 Graveshifter
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Molt Tender
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Scute Mob
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seedship Broodtender
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Species Specialist
  • 1 Spring-Leaf Avenger
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 The Swarmweaver
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Webstrike Elite
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord