Grist's Creepy Crawly Fiends

Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari) Mill Sacrifice Undergrowth

QC15

Land (37)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 11x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x High Market
• 1x Kazandu Mammoth  ^Flip
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Tangled Florahedron  ^Flip
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium

Removal (6)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Caustic Wasps
• 1x Nantuko Vigilante
• 1x Price of Fame
• 1x Shriekmaw

Aristocrats (5)

• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Nadier's Nightblade
• 1x Poison-Tip Archer
• 1x Savra, Queen of the Golgari
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Card-Advantage (4)

• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Realmwalker
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Loyalty (2)

• 1x Carth the Lion
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Tokens (2)

• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Worm Harvest

Insect (14)

• 1x Bloodline Pretender
• 1x Broodhatch Nantuko
• 1x Carrion Grub
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Caustic Wasps
• 1x Changeling Outcast
• 1x Dross Hopper
• 1x Grave-Shell Scarab
• 1x Graveshifter
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Mortician Beetle
• 1x Nantuko Husk
• 1x Nantuko Vigilante
• 1x Realmwalker

Recursion (10)

• 1x Acolyte of Affliction
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Genesis
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Whisper, Blood Liturgist

Sac-Outlet (5)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Dross Hopper
• 1x High Market
• 1x Nantuko Husk
• 1x Viscera Seer

Topdeck-Manipulation (4)

• 1x Bone Harvest
• 1x Footbottom Feast
• 1x Forever Young
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top

Graveyard-Payoff (1)

• 1x Izoni, Thousand-Eyed

Tutor (1)

• 1x Mausoleum Secrets

Commander (1)

Ramp (11)

• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Dawntreader Elk
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Tangled Florahedron  ^Flip
• 1x World Shaper

Self-Mill (6)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Nyx Weaver
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Splinterfright
• 1x Underrealm Lich

Utility (5)

• 1x Conspiracy
• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Vraska, Golgari Queen

Selfmill-Payoff (1)

• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim

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Removal (2)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Stronghold Assassin

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A first draft at a Grist, the Hunger Tide deck.

Ive been in the market for a golgari commander for a few years now and none interested me all that much until this guy came along. Grist combines the classic golgari undergrowth mechanic (see Izoni, Thousand-Eyed ) with the potential for an aristocrats sub-theme in case of a poorly timed graveyard exile effect. On top of all that, Grist allows for unique combos with cards like Forever Young , stacking the top of your library to then get a ton of insects and counters on grist all at once.

While insect tribal is certainly a theme, and I've tried to slot insects into the deck where I can, there aren't enough good insects to necessarily make this deck "tribal" in the traditional sense. For that reason I have effects like Conspiracy and Maskwood Nexus to grant more incidental chain mills with Grist.

To top it all off, the deck makes use of lots of recursion effects to get key creatures back from the graveyard. Grist's passive also means that we can make use of creature recursion to bring them back, meaning commander tax often wont be an issue.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 24 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.12
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Emblem Vraska, Golgari Queen, Experience Token, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Insect 1/1 BG, Insect 1/1 G, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Shapeshifter 2/2 U, Worm 1/1 BG, Zombie 2/2 B