Griduce, Griuse, Gristycle (One Mill-ion Insects)

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Budget Casual Insect Jank Mill Theme/Gimmick Tokens

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Bugs (46)

• 1x Altanak, the Thrice-Called
• 1x Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
• 1x Ant Queen
• 1x Blightbeetle
• 1x Bloodline Pretender
• 1x Broodhatch Nantuko
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Chameleon Colossus
• 1x Circuit Mender
• 1x Crash of Rhino Beetles
• 1x Devouring Swarm
• 1x Duskshell Crawler
• 1x Fumulus, the Infestation
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Giant Ankheg
• 1x Graveshifter
• 1x Grist, Voracious Larva  ^Flip
• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Hornet Nest
• 1x Huskburster Swarm
• 1x Iridescent Hornbeetle
• 1x Kraul Harpooner
• 1x Kraul Whipcracker
• 1x Living Hive
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Moldgraf Monstrosity
• 1x Nameless Inversion
• 1x Nantuko Cultivator
• 1x Nantuko Elder
• 1x Necrosquito
• 1x Phantom Nantuko
• 1x Quarry Beetle
• 1x Realmwalker
• 1x Saber Ants
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Spineseeker Centipede
• 1x Spring-Leaf Avenger
• 1x Springheart Nantuko
• 1x Stinging Cave Crawler
• 1x Swarm of Bloodflies
• 1x Vorapede
• 1x Xantid Swarm
• 1x Zask, Skittering Swarmlord

Removal (8)

• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Grist, Voracious Larva  ^Flip
• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Kraul Harpooner
• 1x Kraul Whipcracker
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Nameless Inversion

Wincon (3)

• 1x Agatha's Soul Cauldron
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim

Land (35)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 1x Escape Tunnel
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 6x Forest
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Riveteers Overlook
• 1x Secluded Courtyard
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Underground Mortuary
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Viridescent Bog
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Threat (13)

• 1x Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
• 1x Chameleon Colossus
• 1x Crash of Rhino Beetles
• 1x Devouring Swarm
• 1x Duskshell Crawler
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Giant Ankheg
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Moldgraf Monstrosity
• 1x Necrosquito
• 1x Phantom Nantuko
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Swarm of Bloodflies

Ramp (10)

• 1x Altanak, the Thrice-Called
• 1x Conduit of Worlds
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Insidious Roots
• 1x Nantuko Elder
• 1x Quarry Beetle
• 1x Spineseeker Centipede
• 1x Splendid Reclamation

Draw (6)

• 1x Altanak, the Thrice-Called
• 1x Bone Harvest
• 1x Circuit Mender
• 1x Nantuko Cultivator
• 1x Realmwalker
• 1x Stinging Cave Crawler

Commander (1)

Tokens (15)

• 1x Agatha's Soul Cauldron
• 1x Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
• 1x Ant Queen
• 1x Broodhatch Nantuko
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Grist, Voracious Larva  ^Flip
• 1x Hornet Nest
• 1x Insidious Roots
• 1x Iridescent Hornbeetle
• 1x Living Hive
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Saber Ants
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Springheart Nantuko

Combo (14)

• 1x Agatha's Soul Cauldron
• 1x Bone Harvest
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Footbottom Feast
• 1x Forever Young
• 1x Fumulus, the Infestation
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Grist, Voracious Larva  ^Flip
• 1x Kindred Summons
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Out of the Tombs
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Springheart Nantuko
• 1x The Chain Veil

Recursion (10)

• 1x Conduit of Worlds
• 1x Footbottom Feast
• 1x Forever Young
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Graveshifter
• 1x Lich-Knights' Conquest
• 1x Moldgraf Monstrosity
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Spring-Leaf Avenger
• 1x Zask, Skittering Swarmlord

Utility (3)

• 1x Blightbeetle
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Xantid Swarm

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Her arrival is foretold by a great flash of light resounding through the sky, warning that you have a few days to prepare in whatever way you see fit before the Hunger Tide descends upon you, scouring the world in a plague of insects.

The goal of this deck is to maintain as high of an insect ratio as possible while having playable cards. The categories aim to be self-descriptive, but some benefit from accompanying explanation.

Bugs

You only get to be in the Bugs category if you have the subtype "Insect". Flavor doesn't matter for this one, doesn't matter if you're a lord for bugs, or make bug tokens; this category is ONLY for things that trigger the repeat clause in Grist's +1.

Land

We are running as much fetch land as we can in order to thin out our land base from the deck as quickly as possible during the game, that way we can increase Grist's odds of hitting bugs when we mill. Effects like Zask, Skittering Swarmlord and Conduit of Worlds let us keep replaying these lands every turn for continual value.

Threat

When Grist isn't able to close out games with her -5, our most basic wincon is to swing with big bugs for the kill. Anything in the threat category either enables this, by making all of our small bugs bigger and scarier, or is a solo threat who can get big and trample-y enough to kill someone, ideally. These are our swingers that we expect to eat removal.

Removal

Our main source of targeted removal is Grist, while a lot of our other removal is underwhelming, because as much as possible we are trying to only use removal that is stapled to a bug.

Ramp

In addition to lands that help us ramp by grabbing more lands, we're running several things that turn all of our little bug tokens into mana dorks. Our silliest ramp combo is Ant Queen with some of our enablers like Itlmoc and Insidious Roots, so that we can pump all of our mana into making more mana bugs.

Tokens

Grist is the bug token authority, but we're running a lot of friends that make bug tokens to help her fill out her swarm. They're our bread and bugter in this deck.

Recursion

Given that we plan to mill tons of stuff into our graveyard with Grist, we hope to reanimate any particularly choice cards that end up there by mistake. Again, trying as much as possible to only have recursion that is stapled to a bug, with a few exceptions.

Combo

This category is our favorite, because they're what let us do more of everything we're doing. Doubling season is huge (Grist's +1 now gains 2 loyalty and makes 2 bugs per bug milled, etc) and Parallel Lives is a smaller version of it, Chain Veil lets us grow Grist and nuke the table on the same turn, and Footbottom Feast/Forever Young/Gravepurge/Bone Harvest let us put every bug from our graveyard on top of our deck to set up a truly massive +1 (and also recur one other creature for free).

Draw

Much as I hate to admit it, commander decks go nowhere without draw. We don't have nearly as many draw effects in this deck as I would like, but we'll do our best with what we've got.

Utility

These are cards that do some important weird role, like shutting down opponent combos by disabling +1 counters, eating important other counters, or locking them out of combat tricks.

Wincon

Outside of Grist nuking everyone with her ult, we have two others that we can reliably expect to enable game-ending turns. Ayara can help a massive Grist +1 be lethal, and Syr Konrad can help a big sac or recursion wave be lethal. Both of them combo extremely well with Footbottom Feast/Forever Young/Gravepurge/Bone Harvest, as an X creature graveyard means X cards leaving the graveyard and X black insects entering the battlefield for 2X damage. Lich-Knights' Conquest can mean X creature sacrifices, X cards leaving the graveyard, and X creatures entering the battlefield all at once, for 3X damage!

Managed to pull a Springheart Nantuko and trade for a Grist, Voracious Larva   at prerelease!

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Date added	8 months
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.67
Tokens	Copy Clone, Insect 1/1 B w/ Flying, Insect 1/1 BG, Insect 1/1 G, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G
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