Grist, the Hunger Tide

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Insect Mill Sacrifice

Krull604

Creature (36)

• 1x Acridian
• 1x Bane of the Living
• 1x Battlefly Swarm
• 1x Bilious Skulldweller
• 1x Blightbeetle
• 1x Bond Beetle
• 1x Broodhatch Nantuko
• 1x Carrion Beetles
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Caustic Wasps
• 1x Devouring Swarm
• 1x Dross Hopper
• 1x Dune Beetle
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Hornet Nest
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Kazandu Nectarpot
• 1x Kraul Harpooner
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Mortician Beetle
• 1x Nantuko Elder
• 1x Nantuko Husk
• 1x Nantuko Vigilante
• 1x Necrosquito
• 1x Old Stickfingers
• 1x Pestilent Syphoner
• 1x Plague Beetle
• 1x Plague Stinger
• 1x Realmwalker
• 1x Scute Mob
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Stirge
• 1x Virus Beetle
• 1x Xantid Swarm

Land (35)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 10x Forest
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Riveteers Overlook
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Verdant Catacombs

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Crawling Infestation
• 1x Crawling Sensation
• 1x Deadbridge Chant
• 1x Out of the Tombs
• 1x Warlock Class

Instant (4)

• 1x Footbottom Feast
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Harrow

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Drown in Ichor
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Forever Young
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Worm Harvest

Artifact (4)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Chain Veil

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vraska, Golgari Queen

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Having a lot of fun with this guy. I went for only insects, and most of them below 3 mana. Basic mana rocks i replaced with cards like cultivate, harrow,... This will get land out your deck, increasing the chances of triggering Grist with insects. And you don't need much mana anyway. Flying/unblockable creatures can be tricky to deal with, and of course graveyard removal is a difficult match up (Dauthi Voidwalker, Kalitas, Bojuka Bog,...) You can go many different ways with Grist. I left out most graveyard recursion cards like victimize etc, and didn't use a single non insect creature, except for the old sticky fingers.

First win con is last Grist ability, since it does damage to ALL opponents, but you can nibble away with tokens/insects as well, supported with cards like beastmaster ascension and worm harvest. Giant Adephage can also be a real damage dealer. And Vraska's Emblem if you can get it out.

I have had games were i had eight 1/1 insect tokens out on turn 3 :)

Any thoughts or suggestions are always welcome.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 35 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.78
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Vraska, Golgari Queen, Insect 1/1 BG, Insect 1/1 G, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Morph 2/2 C, Worm 1/1 BG