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

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

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Bugs (50)

• 1x Aatchik, Emerald Radian
• 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 Chitin Gravestalker
• 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 Molt Tender
• 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 Webstrike Elite
• 1x Xantid Swarm
• 1x Zask, Skittering Swarmlord

Land (31)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 1x Escape Tunnel
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 6x Forest
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Riveteers Overlook
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Underground Mortuary
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wastewood Verge
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Ramp (5)

• 1x Conduit of Worlds
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Insidious Roots
• 1x Splendid Reclamation

Commander (1)

Combo (13)

• 1x Agatha's Soul Cauldron
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Bone Harvest
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Footbottom Feast
• 1x Forever Young
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Kindred Summons
• 1x Lich-Knights' Conquest
• 1x Out of the Tombs
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x The Chain Veil

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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.

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.

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).

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!

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Date added	9 months
Last updated	22 hours
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 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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