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

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

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Bugs (43)

• 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 Decimator Beetle
• 1x Devouring Swarm
• 1x Duskshell Crawler
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Giant Ankheg
• 1x Graveshifter
• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Hornet Nest
• 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 Rot Farm Mortipede
• 1x Saber Ants
• 1x Scute Mob
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Spring-Leaf Avenger
• 1x Stinging Cave Crawler
• 1x Swarm of Bloodflies
• 1x Vorapede
• 1x Xantid Swarm
• 1x Zask, Skittering Swarmlord

Draw (5)

• 1x Bone Harvest
• 1x Circuit Mender
• 1x Nantuko Cultivator
• 1x Realmwalker
• 1x Stinging Cave Crawler

Utility (3)

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

Land (35)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Escape Tunnel
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 10x Forest
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Riveteers Overlook
• 1x Secluded Courtyard
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Viridescent Bog
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Tokens (13)

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

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

Removal (8)

• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Decimator Beetle
• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Kraul Harpooner
• 1x Kraul Whipcracker
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Nameless Inversion

Commander (1)

Threat (14)

• 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 Mob
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Swarm of Bloodflies

Combo (10)

• 1x Agatha's Soul Cauldron
• 1x Bone Harvest
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Footbottom Feast
• 1x Forever Young
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Kindred Summons
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x The Chain Veil

Ramp (8)

• 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 Splendid Reclamation

Cut (4)

• 1x Deadbridge Goliath
• 1x Moldgraf Millipede
• 1x Nantuko Vigilante
• 1x Nessian Hornbeetle

Wincon (3)

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

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Sideboard

Other (3)

• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Grist, Voracious Larva  ^Flip
• 1x Verdant Catacombs

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Maybeboard

Bugs (4)

• 1x Bloatfly Swarm
• 1x Canoptek Scarab Swarm
• 1x Distended Mindbender
• 1x Mortipede

Utility (2)

• 1x Canoptek Scarab Swarm
• 1x Distended Mindbender

Threat (1)

• 1x Mortipede

Mill (1)

• 1x Bloatfly Swarm

Tokens (1)

• 1x Canoptek Scarab 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". Doesn't matter if you're a lord for bugs, or make bug tokens; this category is ONLY for things that Grist likes to mill.

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!

You'd better believe that as soon as the new MH3 Grist is out, it's going in the 100 of this deck :)

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Date added	1 month
Last updated	2 days
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 1 Mythic Rares 31 - 2 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.62
Tokens	Copy Clone, 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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