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

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

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Bugs (48)

• 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 Deadbridge Goliath
• 1x Decimator Beetle
• 1x Devouring Swarm
• 1x Duskshell Crawler
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Giant Ankheg
• 1x Gleancrawler
• 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 Millipede
• 1x Moldgraf Monstrosity
• 1x Nameless Inversion
• 1x Nantuko Cultivator
• 1x Nantuko Elder
• 1x Nantuko Vigilante
• 1x Necrosquito
• 1x Nessian Hornbeetle
• 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

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

Removal (9)

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

Recursion (8)

• 1x Conduit of Worlds
• 1x Gleancrawler
• 1x Graveshifter
• 1x Lich-Knights' Conquest
• 1x Moldgraf Monstrosity
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Spring-Leaf Avenger
• 1x Zask, Skittering Swarmlord

Wincon (3)

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

Commander (1)

Threat (16)

• 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 Gleancrawler
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Moldgraf Millipede
• 1x Moldgraf Monstrosity
• 1x Necrosquito
• 1x Phantom Nantuko
• 1x Scute Mob
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Swarm of Bloodflies

Combo (9)

• 1x Agatha's Soul Cauldron
• 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

Draw (4)

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

Mill (2)

• 1x Moldgraf Millipede
• 1x Zask, Skittering Swarmlord

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Maybeboard

Other (3)

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

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Speccing out a Grist deck for fun. The goal is to hold 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". I don't care if you're a lord for bugs, or make bug tokens; this category is 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 its -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 high value 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 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 enables 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 it out. 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 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 is now a +2 that 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 let us put every bug in 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.

Mill

Most of our mill comes from Grist, but we have a few others to support filling our graveyard with creatures that power up some of our big hitters.

Wincon

Outside of Grist nuking everyone with its 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, 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 :)

Top Ranked	Achieved #21 position overall today Achieved #18 position in Commander / EDH today Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Budget 1 week ago
Date added	3 weeks
Last updated	1 day
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.67
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