My Gravedigger by Stupper70

Format: Commander

Commander: Grist, the Hunger Tide

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 65

Deck overview

This competitive Golgari deck leverages Grist, the Hunger Tide as a hybrid commander that functions as a planeswalker on the board and an Insect creature in all other zones. The strategy focuses on racing to game-ending combos through explosive mana acceleration and efficient tutoring. The primary win condition pairs Witherbloom Apprentice with Chain of Smog to drain the table in a single turn through infinite Magecraft triggers. As a redundant backup, the deck utilizes fast graveyard enablers like Entomb and Buried Alive to reanimate Protean Hulk, fetching Warren Soultrader and Chatterfang, Squirrel General alongside blood artist effects for infinite drain. Grist provides essential utility by generating creature tokens for sacrifice costs, milling key reanimation targets, and acting as repeatable removal for opposing commanders and stax pieces. Dense interaction and silence-style protection in green ensure fast, protected combo turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkmoss Bridge
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Dryad's Revival
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Fiend Artisan
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Hazel's Brewmaster
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Life // Death
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nostalgic Dreams
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reclaim
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Riftsweeper
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traverse the Ulvenwald
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat