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Grist - Queen of the swarm
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Est deck cost: $144.14
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Commander

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Grist, the Hunger Tide

As long as Grist isn't on the battlefield, it's a 1/1 Insect creature in addition to its other types. +1: Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then mill a card. If an Insect card was milled this way, put a loyalty counter on Grist and repeat this process. −2: You may sacrifice a creature. When you do, destroy target creature or planeswalker. −5: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Planeswalker
Grist, the Hunger Tide (mh2) 306

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Land

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Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
Dakmor Salvage

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Land
Dakmor Salvage (uma) 240
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 290
Haunted Mire

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Haunted Mire (dmu) 248
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (otc) 310
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 284
Temple of Malady

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Malady (fdn) 700

Land

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Swarm

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Aatchik, Emerald Radian

When Aatchik enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token for each artifact and/or creature card in your graveyard. Whenever another Insect you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Aatchik. Each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Aatchik, Emerald Radian (dft) 187
Altanak, the Thrice-Called

Trample Whenever Altanak becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, draw a card. {1}{G}, Discard this card: Return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Altanak, the Thrice-Called (dsk) 166
Battlefly Swarm

Flying {B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Battlefly Swarm (dmu) 81
Bilious Skulldweller

Deathtouch Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)

Creature
Bilious Skulldweller (one) 83
Blightbeetle

Protection from green (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything green.) Creatures your opponents control can't have +1/+1 counters put on them.

Creature
Blightbeetle (plst) M20-87
Bloodline Pretender

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As this creature enters, choose a creature type. Whenever another creature you control of the chosen type enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Bloodline Pretender (moc) 350
Carrion Locust

Flying When this creature enters, exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If it was a creature card, that player loses 1 life.

Creature
Carrion Locust (bro) 87
Circuit Mender

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Circuit Mender (blc) 267
Devouring Swarm

Flying Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Devouring Swarm (j25) 421
Duskshell Crawler

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Duskshell Crawler (j25) 653
Flesh Burrower

Deathtouch Whenever this creature attacks, another target creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Flesh Burrower (dsk) 178
Giant Adephage

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Giant Adephage (dsc) 179
Giant Ankheg

Trample Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) Other creatures you control have trample and ward {2}.

Creature
Giant Ankheg (clb) 233
Haywire Mite

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life. {G}, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.

Creature Artifact
Haywire Mite (dsc) 247
Hornet Nest

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt damage, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Hornet Nest (scd) 189
Hornet Queen

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, create four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch.

Creature
Hornet Queen (dsc) 184
Huskburster Swarm

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card you own in exile and in your graveyard. Menace, deathtouch

Creature
Huskburster Swarm (blb) 98
Kazandu Nectarpot

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kazandu Nectarpot (j25) 679
Kraul Whipcracker

Reach When this creature enters, destroy target token an opponent controls.

Creature
Kraul Whipcracker (mkm) 213
Necrosquito

Flying This creature enters with two oil counters on it. This creature gets +1/+1 for each oil counter on it. Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on this creature.

Creature
Necrosquito (one) 100
Realmwalker

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As this creature enters, choose a creature type. You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells of the chosen type from the top of your library.

Creature
Realmwalker (lcc) 250
Rot Farm Mortipede

Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, this creature gets +1/+0 and gains menace and lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Rot Farm Mortipede (mkm) 102
Scute Swarm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that's a copy of this creature instead.

Creature
Scute Swarm (dsc) 197
Spring-Leaf Avenger

Ninjutsu {3}{G} ({3}{G}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Spring-Leaf Avenger (neo) 208
Virus Beetle

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature Artifact
Virus Beetle (j25) 509
Zask, Skittering Swarmlord

You may play lands and cast Insect spells from your graveyard. Whenever another Insect you control dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library, then mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) {1}{B/G}: Target Insect gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. ({B/G} can be paid with either {B} or {G}.)

Creature
Zask, Skittering Swarmlord (j22) 47

Swarm

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Draw

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Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (otj) 84
Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way. You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (blc) 188
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (inr) 137

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Mill Payoff

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Izoni, Thousand-Eyed

Undergrowth — When Izoni enters, create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token for each creature card in your graveyard. {B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed (grn) 180
Polluted Cistern

Enchantment
Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette (dsc) 23
The Swarmweaver

When The Swarmweaver enters, create two 1/1 black and green Insect creature tokens with flying. Delirium — As long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, Insects and Spiders you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch.

Creature Artifact
The Swarmweaver (dsk) 236

Mill Payoff

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Bone Harvest

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Bone Harvest (mir) 108
Forever Young

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Forever Young (eld) 89
Gravepurge

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

Instant
Gravepurge (plst) DTK-104

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Get Shit Bacc

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Diregraf Rebirth

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature that died this turn. Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback {5}{B}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Diregraf Rebirth (mid) 220
Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Dread Return (cmm) 153
Find

Sorcery
Find // Finality (rvr) 245
Formless Genesis

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Create an X/X colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling and deathtouch, where X is the number of land cards in your graveyard. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Sorcery Kindred
Formless Genesis (dsc) 34
Lich-Knights' Conquest

Sacrifice any number of artifacts, enchantments, and/or tokens. Return that many creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Lich-Knights' Conquest (woe) 96
Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Patriarch's Bidding (mh2) 275
Rise of the Witch-king

Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you sacrificed a creature this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Rise of the Witch-king (ltr) 221
Splendid Reclamation

Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Splendid Reclamation (vow) 221
Squirming Emergence

Fathomless descent — Return to the battlefield target nonland permanent card in your graveyard with mana value less than or equal to the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Squirming Emergence (lci) 241

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 52
Growing Rites of Itlimoc

Enchantment
Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (lci) 188Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (lci) 188
Halo Scarab

{2}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature Artifact
Halo Scarab (snc) 239
Insidious Roots

Creature tokens you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.

Enchantment
Insidious Roots (mkm) 208
Patchwork Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Patchwork Banner (blb) 247
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56

Ramp

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WinCon

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Illicit Masquerade

Flash When this enchantment enters, put an impostor counter on each creature you control. Whenever a creature you control with an impostor counter on it dies, exile it. Return up to one other target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Enchantment
Illicit Masquerade (mkm) 88
Luxior, Giada's Gift

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each counter on it. Equipped permanent isn't a planeswalker and is a creature in addition to its other types. (Loyalty abilities can still be activated.) Equip planeswalker {1} Equip {3}

Artifact
Luxior, Giada's Gift (snc) 240
Mirkwood Bats

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 421
Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (dsc) 158
The Hunger Tide Rises

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.) I, II, III — Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token. IV — Sacrifice any number of creatures. Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of creatures sacrificed this way and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Enchantment
The Hunger Tide Rises (mh3) 158

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Interrupt

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Hagra Mauling

Instant
Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106
Khalni Ambush

Instant
Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory (znr) 192Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory (znr) 192
Overwhelming Remorse

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Overwhelming Remorse (bro) 110
Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211
Terror Tide

Fathomless descent — All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Terror Tide (lci) 127

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Selfmill

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Crawling Infestation

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill two cards. (You may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere during your turn, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Crawling Infestation (cmm) 281
Deadbridge Chant

When this enchantment enters, mill ten cards. At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a card at random in your graveyard. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Enchantment
Deadbridge Chant (dsc) 215
Grapple with the Past

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature or land card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Instant
Grapple with the Past (inr) 199
Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107

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Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (cmm) 368
Chainflail Centipede

Whenever this creature or equipped creature attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Reconfigure {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact
Chainflail Centipede (neo) 90
Crawl from the Cellar

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target Zombie you control. Flashback {3}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Crawl from the Cellar (inr) 102
Giant Ladybug

Reach When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Creature
Giant Ladybug (j22) 39
Honest Rutstein

When Honest Rutstein enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Honest Rutstein (otj) 207
Matzalantli, the Great Door

Artifact
Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256
Nessian Hornbeetle

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control another creature with power 4 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Nessian Hornbeetle (fdn) 229
Primordial Gnawer

When this creature dies, discover 3. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 3 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Creature
Primordial Gnawer (lci) 114
Timeless Witness

When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Eternalize {5}{G}{G} ({5}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Timeless Witness (mh2) 179
Urborg Repossession

Kicker {1}{G} (You may pay an additional {1}{G} as you cast this spell.) Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain 2 life. If this spell was kicked, return another target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Urborg Repossession (dmu) 114

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Fumulus, the Infestation

Flying, deathtouch Whenever a player sacrifices a nontoken creature, create a 1/1 black Insect creature token with flying. Whenever an Insect, Leech, Slug, or Worm you control attacks, defending player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Fumulus, the Infestation (j25) 42
Golgari Grave-Troll

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature. Dredge 6 (If you would draw a card, you may mill six cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Creature
Golgari Grave-Troll (rvr) 144
Golgari Thug

When this creature dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, you may mill four cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Creature
Golgari Thug (rvr) 76
Grist, Voracious Larva

Creature
Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 251Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 251
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (pip) 202
Life from the Loam

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Sorcery
Life from the Loam (rvr) 148
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (cm2) 68
Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest

Flying Whenever a player sacrifices another permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest (plst) 2XM-209
Old Stickfingers

When you cast this spell, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X creature cards. Put all creature cards revealed this way into your graveyard, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Old Stickfingers's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Old Stickfingers (dsc) 227
Scute Mob

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control five or more lands, put four +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Scute Mob (c18) 161
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (blc) 283
Stinkweed Imp

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Creature
Stinkweed Imp (plst) GK1-53
Swarmyard

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Land
Swarmyard (blc) 133
Swarmyard Massacre

Create two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens. Then each creature that isn't an Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each creature you control that's an Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel.

Sorcery
Swarmyard Massacre (blc) 20
Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Land
Three Tree City (blb) 260
Wight of the Reliquary

Vigilance This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Wight of the Reliquary (mh3) 207

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