Grimgrin, Corpse-Born

Legendary Creature — Zombie

Grimgrin, Corpse-Born enters the battlefield tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step.

Sacrifice another creature: Untap Grimgrin and put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Whenever Grimgrin attacks, destroy target creature defending player controls, then put a +1/+1 counter on Grimgrin.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (47)

Heavensgates on Marchesas' Thorns

4 months ago

Cmi1103 Those are some great comments and suggestions, thanks!

I either missed Anduril, Narsil Reforged or it was a bit out of my budget at the time I first saw it. A copy of it is on the way!

I used to have Thran Vigil, until it hit me that it was only a single +1/+1 counter, no matter how many cards come in and it was only on your turn. I cannot remember what I swapped it out for, but I am unwilling to use it, given its constraints. Had it been one counter per turn, I would still have it.

I will seriously consider Spark Double, so many legendary cards are worth copying, commander included, just gotta figure out what to dump for it.

Ashnod's Altar is in the deck, Goblin Bombardment will go in my thinking pile, free sacs are nice indeed.

I used to have Flayer of the Hatebound in the deck combined with Stalking Vengeance for a double whammy, but I took em out to go another direction.

I also like to walk the dangerous line of not being the one with the most lives, often not blocking attacks to drop my lives to activate dethrone. It's also why I use all those pain talismans. So Gray Merchant of Asphodel is not really an option I am willing to entertain.

Wish I had a Dockside Extortionist!

I stole your Danny Pink and am thinking on your Kardur, Doomscourge as well.

Looking through your decklist, I see you are using Mahadi, Emporium Master, an alternative could be Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge, same CMC, but he flies, does not require the black mana and is 5/4 instead of 3/3, downside is you need 4+ artifacts for him to attack and he will not spawn a treasure when tokens die.

Another interesting free sac outlet is Grimgrin, Corpse-Born, free sacs, adds +1/+1 counters on himself (and untaps!) and kills a target and buffs again when attacking.

Another interesting creature I toyed with that serves as a good defender and gives you perfect control of your life total (on the downside) is Mischievous Poltergeist, stops anything that is not trample or unblockable and survives many kinds of board wipes all while allowing you to drop your life total to the same level as the highest life total at instant speed!

Otherwise, Skullclamp, 1 mana for 2 extra card draws? Sign me up!

Thanks for the comments and the upvote and here is one back from me (I tried, but I get a 404 page when I click the button...)!

77hi77 on Zombie Tribal - Deciding My …

1 year ago

Well, I just went ahead and got myself Varina, Lich Queen, Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant, and Grimgrin, Corpse-Born. Each deck will play differently, but I feel pretty good about them all being based on the Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver precon for the spine of the deck. I might even go wild and pick up a Sedris, the Traitor King to go for yet another colour route. For now I'll leave it at dimir and esper, figure those out and how I want those to play.

Now to decide which Liliana suits how I want each commander to play best (and try to justify the answer not being Liliana, Dreadhorde General because she ain't cheap)

bklounge on Zombie Tribal - Deciding My …

1 year ago

My three favorite zombie commanders personally are Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver, Grimgrin, Corpse-Born, and The Scarab God. Wilhelt is great because he gives you a nice bit of card draw with his sac ability. If you are trying to build a go wide deck, Wilhelt will be more of a value engine to get you running the first couple of turns. However, if you aren't making your deck a sacrifice deck the extra decayed tokens aren't quite as useful. My Wilhelt deck was built to drain my opponents through sac payoffs, and while it was definitely my highest powered zombie deck, repeating the same infinite combos with Gravecrawler became a little boring. Scarab God is really fun because it does a little bit of everything. The upkeep ability is nice when going wide because you should have quite a few zombies, which will drain your opponents over time and also allow you to grab your best cards depending on the situation. Add in cards like Paradox Haze and Wound Reflection and it really starts to add up. Being able to use the reanimate effect is really fun too and can make each game & wincon unique depending on whats in your opponents graveyards. Right now, I'm having the most fun with Grimgrin. He gives you removal in the command zone, and gives you versatility with your attack strategy. You can pump up your zombies with lords and go wide (and use Grimgrin to remove the biggest threats), or you can sac your zombies to him and go tall with commander damage. Most satisfying win I've had was pumping up Grimgrin, swinging with Wand of Orcus equipped to eliminate one player with commander damage, and then knocking out the other two players with the resulting zombie tokens. Overall I just think he's a blast to play, even if he's not the most high powered.

legendofa on Black blue deck

1 year ago

Doom Blade is kind of out classed at this point; there are better removal options. Since it can't target black creatures, that's 1/5 of the color pie that can't be affected. Feed the Swarm or Bone Shards are other options.

I think this deck needs more creatures to take better advantage of Unbreathing Horde, Champion of the Perished, and similar cards.

If you're willing to spend the money, Gravecrawler is a great card to combo with Grimgrin, Corpse-Born and Zombies in general.

DawnsRayofLight on And The Dead Keep It, The Way Is Shut

2 years ago

I might consider going flat out zombies for this list. mono White, mono blue Urza, green white, or bant tend to do tax lists a bit better. I get the reasoning with rooftop storm, but it isn't enough.

If you want to do zombies, U/B is great because you have 3 solid generals to choose from between Grimgrin, Corpse-Born, Gisa and Geralf, and Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

If you want to focus on Stax, maybe look into Urza, Lord High Artificer, Derevi, Empyrial Tactician, Hokori, Dust Drinker, Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker, Yasharn, Implacable Earth, Sigarda, Host of Herons, etc. All make great Stax commanders and have easier colors to work around the orb and tax effects (Opposition, Glare of Subdual, Seedborn Muse, Urza, Lord High Artificer, etc). Black can allow for reanimation for smokestack and the like white also has the potential along with plenty of ways to generate tokens.

You can do whatever you feel like, it is certainly your list, I just wanted to maybe offer the advice that this list is trying to do too much which keeps it from doing either of its game plans effectively. I speak from experience trying to make a Naya list that could be stompy and run tokens which didn't work well.

LimbicCircus on Tormod and Esior - Endless Ranks (v1.2)

2 years ago

KBK7101 Love the list! My first ever deck was a Grimgrin, Corpse-Born deck that I am now repurposing and tweaking to use Gisa and Geralf and better utilize the graveyard rather than focus on Grimgrin, Rooftop Storm and Gravecrawler antics.

How do you feel about Havengul Lich, Whip of Erebos, and Dictate of Erebos/Grave Pact?

angelic_fury on Guess Who's Back, Back Again, And Again

2 years ago

Built one around Marchesa myself. I really like the affect that Grimgrin, Corpse-Born and Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

rdean14 on Card creation challenge

2 years ago

Looking at the wiki page for it, I think it has real grounds to be Sultai, so here's a Sultai Gitrog:

The Gitrog of Lake Zhava

Legendary Creature - Frog Horror

Ward - Sacrifice a land.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep they reveal a card from their hand. If it is a land, put onto the battlefield under your control, if a nonland card is revealed this way, you may cast it without paying its mana cost, if you don't cast it, that player discards it.

Whenever an opponent sacrifices a land, put it onto the battlefield under your control.

5/5

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I'd like to see another legend from a previous Innistrad set with exactly 1 card which could be around for Crimson Vow:

I think Geist of Saint Traft, Grimgrin, Corpse-Born, Ishkanah, Grafwidow, Ulrich of the Krallenhorde  ^Flip, and Withengar Unbound are the only others.

Everyone else either is either perma-dead or has been reprinted at least once. If you come up with another one, that'd be cool, though