Grist, the Hunger Tide leads a Golgari midrange "superfriends" deck that pairs a large suite of planeswalkers with sacrifice fodder, discard pressure and graveyard recursion. Grist's +1 makes Insect tokens and mills. Those tokens feed sacrifice outlets like Grist's own -2 removal, card-draw spells and tutors. The deck grinds opponents out through attrition: repeated removal, edicts, symmetrical discard and taxing effects. Milled creatures then get reanimated or recast from the graveyard, and the graveyard's creature count also fuels Grist's -5 and other scaling effects. How it wins: It grinds opponents down with planeswalker card advantage, edicts and discard while chipping life through drain effects, punisher triggers, a Grist -5 off a stocked graveyard, and stolen or reanimated threats. Key roles: - Planeswalker value engine: A dense walker suite, Grist included, supplies repeatable tokens, card selection, removal and ultimates, and the creature bodies and edicts help defend that loyalty. (Liliana, Dreadhorde General, Wrenn and Seven, Vraska, Golgari Queen) - Sacrifice fodder and payoffs: Tokens and small creatures turn into cards, tutors, mana or drain through sacrifice outlets and death triggers. (Skullclamp, The Meathook Massacre, Diabolic Intent) - Attrition and hand disruption: Symmetrical discard, edicts, upkeep sacrifice and life-loss punishers strip opponents' resources, and some cards then cast the discarded cards. (Liliana of the Veil, Braids, Cabal Minion, Tinybones, Bauble Burglar) - Mill and self-graveyard fuel: Mill effects fill the graveyard with creatures and permanents for recursion, growing creature-count payoffs and the Grist -5. (Grisly Salvage, Ripples of Undeath, Six) - Recursion and reanimation: Permanents are returned or recast from the graveyard, and creatures from any graveyard are stolen onto the battlefield. (Sheoldred // The True Scriptures, Virtue of Persistence, Conduit of Worlds) - Draw punishment and drain: Opponents take damage or lose life whenever they draw extra cards, which converts the deck's long games into a steady clock. (Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Orcish Bowmasters, Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted)

Commander Grist decklist

• Forest
• Swamp
• Arcane Signet
• Castle Locthwain
• Command Tower
• Birds of Paradise
• Crop Rotation
• Demonic Tutor
• Elves of Deep Shadow
• Eternal Witness
• Llanowar Elves
• Skullclamp
• Sol Ring
• Liliana, Waker of the Dead
• Scavenging Ooze
• Village Rites
• Fellwar Stone
• Basalt Monolith
• Golgari Signet
• Bayou
• Llanowar Wastes
• K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• Vraska the Unseen
• City of Brass
• Survival of the Fittest
• Tainted Wood
• Ophiomancer
• Toxic Deluge
• Diabolic Intent
• Braids, Cabal Minion
• Deathrite Shaman
• Vampiric Tutor
• Grisly Salvage
• Ancient Tomb
• Liliana of the Veil
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• Phyrexian Tower
• Assassin's Trophy
• Overgrown Tomb
• Verdant Catacombs
• Twilight Mire
• Painful Quandary
• Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• Ensnaring Bridge
• Karn, the Great Creator
• Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
• Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
• Nurturing Peatland
• Prismatic Vista
• Talisman of Resilience
• Worldly Tutor
• Woodland Cemetery
• Vivien Reid
• Undergrowth Stadium
• Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
• Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• Dauthi Voidwalker
• Deadly Dispute
• Wrenn and Seven
• Infernal Grasp
• Graveyard Trespasser // Graveyard Glutton
• The Meathook Massacre
• Deathcap Glade
• Boseiju, Who Endures
• Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• Llanowar Loamspeaker
• The Raven Man
• Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
• Gix's Command
• Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
• Conduit of Worlds
• Glissa Sunslayer
• Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
• Nissa, Ascended Animist
• Breach the Multiverse
• Wrenn and Realmbreaker
• Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
• Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
• Blot Out
• Delighted Halfling
• Orcish Bowmasters
• Rise of the Witch-king
• Hopeless Nightmare
• Collector's Vault
• Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers
• Deadly Cover-Up
• Viridescent Bog
• Tinybones, the Pickpocket
• Tinybones Joins Up
• Vraska, the Silencer
• Pillage the Bog
• Wight of the Reliquary
• Six
• Evolution Witness
• Shifting Woodland
• Ripples of Undeath
• Springheart Nantuko
• Accursed Marauder
• Bandit's Talent
• Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
• Aatchik, Emerald Radian
• Wastewood Verge
• Momentum Breaker
• Icetill Explorer
• Morlun, Devourer of Spiders
• Professor Dellian Fel
• Phyrexian Arena
• Vraska, Golgari Queen
• Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
• Mana Confluence
• Marsh Flats
• Wooded Foothills
• Windswept Heath
• Bloodstained Mire
• Polluted Delta