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Grist's Lethal Scheme
Deck Size: 60
Oathbreaker
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Est deck cost: $122.08
Salt sum: 17.54
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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 (prm) 91327
Lethal Scheme

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked Lethal Scheme connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

Instant
Lethal Scheme (lcc) 201

Commander

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Land

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Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (otc) 273
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (otc) 280
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 (otj) 285
Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (clu) 236
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 (otj) 281
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 (tsr) 284
Tangled Florahedron

Creature
Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale (znr) 211Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale (znr) 211

Land

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Removal

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Bane of the Living

Morph {X}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Creature
Bane of the Living (c19) 104
Caustic Caterpillar

{1}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Caustic Caterpillar (j22) 86
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 (bro) 199
Kraul Harpooner

Reach Undergrowth — When this creature enters, choose up to one target creature you don't control with flying. This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard, then you may have this creature fight that creature.

Creature
Kraul Harpooner (clu) 167
Nantuko Vigilante

Morph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Nantuko Vigilante (mkc) 177

Removal

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Draw

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Circuit Mender

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

Creature Artifact
Circuit Mender (j22) 760
Nantuko Cultivator

When this creature enters, you may discard any number of land cards. Put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature and draw that many cards.

Creature
Nantuko Cultivator (otc) 198
Stinging Cave Crawler

Deathtouch Descend 4 — Whenever this creature attacks, if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Stinging Cave Crawler (lci) 124
Stirge

Flying This creature can't block. Blood Drain — {1}{B}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Stirge (clb) 150

Draw

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Protection/ Disruption

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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 (m20) 87
Xantid Swarm

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, defending player can't cast spells this turn.

Creature
Xantid Swarm (ema) 193

Protection/ Disruption

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Self-Mill

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Bloatfly Swarm

Flying This creature enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. If damage would be dealt to this creature while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage, remove that many +1/+1 counters from it, then give each player a rad counter for each +1/+1 counter removed this way.

Creature
Bloatfly Swarm (pip) 42
Carrion Grub

This creature gets +X/+0, where X is the greatest power among creature cards in your graveyard. When this creature enters, mill four cards. (Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Carrion Grub (cmm) 143
Crawling Sensation

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 land cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere for the first time each turn, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

Enchantment
Crawling Sensation (otc) 189
Moldgraf Millipede

When this creature enters, mill three cards, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each creature card in your graveyard. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Moldgraf Millipede (j22) 691
Out of the Tombs

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two eon counters on this enchantment, then mill cards equal to the number of eon counters on it. If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If you can't, you lose the game.

Enchantment
Out of the Tombs (40k) 46

Self-Mill

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Graveyard Hate

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Canoptek Scarab Swarm

Flying Feeder Mandibles — When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard. For each artifact or land card exiled this way, create a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying.

Creature Artifact
Canoptek Scarab Swarm (40k) 150
Rotfeaster Maggot

When this creature enters, exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain life equal to that card's toughness.

Creature
Rotfeaster Maggot (plst) M15-112

Graveyard Hate

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Ramp

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Loam Larva

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
Loam Larva (ogw) 135
Nantuko Elder

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

Creature
Nantuko Elder (ody) 254
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (mkc) 183
Wild Growth

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.

Enchantment
Wild Growth (mkc) 195

Ramp

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Insects

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Amzu, Swarm's Hunger

Flying, menace Other Insects you control have menace. Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, you may create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the greatest mana value among those cards. Do this only once each turn.

Creature
Amzu, Swarm's Hunger (clu) 24
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
Broodhatch Nantuko

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you may create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens. Morph {2}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature
Broodhatch Nantuko (mkc) 167
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 (clu) 161
Iridescent Hornbeetle

At the beginning of your end step, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token for each +1/+1 counter you've put on creatures under your control this turn.

Creature
Iridescent Hornbeetle (j22) 678
Kraul Foragers

Undergrowth — When this creature enters, you gain 1 life for each creature card in your graveyard.

Creature
Kraul Foragers (j22) 682
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 (otc) 205

Insects

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Recursion

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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
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
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 (plst) A25-96
Moldgraf Monstrosity

Trample When this creature dies, exile it, then return two creature cards at random from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Moldgraf Monstrosity (c18) 156
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
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

Recursion

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Maybeboard

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Blex, Vexing Pest

Creature
Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex (stx) 148Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex (stx) 148
Canoptek Tomb Sentinel

Vigilance Exile Cannon — When this creature enters from a graveyard, exile up to one target nonland permanent. Unearth {7} ({7}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature Artifact
Canoptek Tomb Sentinel (40k) 152
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
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 (clu) 164
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
Grist, Voracious Larva

Creature
Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 251Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 251
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
Hive of the Eye Tyrant

If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {3}{B}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/3 black Beholder creature with menace and "Whenever this creature attacks, exile target card from defending player's graveyard." It's still a land.

Land
Hive of the Eye Tyrant (afr) 258
Springheart Nantuko

Bestow {1}{G} Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay {1}{G} if this permanent is attached to a creature you control. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature. If you didn't create a token this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

Creature Enchantment
Springheart Nantuko (mh3) 171
Vorapede

Vigilance, trample Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Vorapede (c20) 195

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