New Untitled Deck by user3253353

Format: Commander

Commander: Grist, the Hunger Tide

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari Insect tribal and aristocrats strategy led by Grist, the Hunger Tide. Grist operates as a 1/1 Insect in the command zone, allowing it to enter on Turn 3 and immediately kickstart the graveyard engine. The primary game plan revolves around filling the graveyard with creature cards through self-mill effects like Grist's +1 ability, Crawling Infestation, and Grisly Salvage. Once the graveyard is stocked, the deck deploys high-impact payoffs on Turn 5, such as Patriarch's Bidding for mass reanimation, Izoni, Thousand-Eyed for an explosive swarm of tokens, or Syr Konrad, the Grim for lethal life drain. The deck closes the game around Turn 7 through wide combat attacks boosted by Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest or Grist's -5 loyalty ultimate. While the deck possesses rapid engine recovery from the command zone and resilient recursion, it lacks stack interaction and remains vulnerable to dedicated graveyard exile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aatchik, Emerald Radian
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bane of the Living
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blightbeetle
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bone Harvest
  • 1 Broodhatch Nantuko
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Caustic Caterpillar
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Crawling Infestation
  • 1 Crawling Sensation
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Devouring Swarm
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Footbottom Feast
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Forever Young
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Gravepurge
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Huskburster Swarm
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
  • 1 Liliana's Talent
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Moldgraf Millipede
  • 1 Nantuko Elder
  • 1 Nantuko Husk
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Scute Mob
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seedship Broodtender
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Spring-Leaf Avenger
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard Massacre
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord