Grist, Bugmen Investigator

Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari) Insect Tokens

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Creature (30)

• 1x Ant Queen
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Bane of the Living
• 1x Blex, Vexing Pest  ^Flip
• 1x Blightbeetle
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Caustic Wasps
• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Hornet Nest
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Nantuko Elder
• 1x Nyx Weaver
• 1x Realmwalker
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scute Mob
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Species Specialist
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Tangled Florahedron  ^Flip
• 1x Vorapede

Artifact (5)

• 1x Ashes of the Fallen
• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Chain Veil

Land (31)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 10x Forest
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Swarmyard
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Woodland Chasm

Instant (11)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Bone Harvest
• 1x Deathsprout
• 1x Footbottom Feast
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Hagra Mauling  ^Flip
• 1x Naturalize
• 1x Necrotic Wound
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Village Rites

Commander (1)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Forever Young
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Turntimber Symbiosis  ^Flip
• 1x Unearth

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Conspiracy
• 1x Crawling Sensation
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Haunted Crossroads
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Tortured Existence
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Vampiric Rites
• 1x Wild Growth

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Detective Grist is here to solve the mystery of who keeps putting centipedes in these corpses.

The goal is to get Grist, the Hunger Tide out early and then play some fair magic until you can Gravepurge and make a bunch of bugs, either ending the game with multi The Chain Veil -5's or simply running your opponents over with a bugswarm.

Deck currently gets Grist out turn 2 very consistently, now looking for adds/cuts to solidify the midgame while I assemble cards like Ashes of the Fallen and Syr Konrad, the Grim to kill my opponents.

Changelog:

• -1 Living Hive +1 Giant Adephage Living hive is smaller, and costs more
• -1 Grim Tutor +1 Swarmyard ups the land count and survivability of heavy hitting bugs
• -1 Life +1 Unearth Just generally cheaper and can be cycled
• -1 Genesis +1 Caustic Wasps Adds more bugs and I don't have to invest 8 mana into getting a card back into my hand
• +1 Swamp +1 Forest -1 Peat Bog -1 Hickory Woodlot (The change only really helped if the depletion lands were in my opening hand)
• -1 Stag Beetle -1 Unearth +1 Ant Queen +1 Nyx Weaver
• -1 Swamp -1 Forest +1 Peat Bog +1 Hickory Woodlot

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.88
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Insect 1/1 BG, Insect 1/1 G, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Morph 2/2 C, Shapeshifter 2/2 U, Worm 1/1 BG