Grist, the Hunger Tide leads a Golgari Insect tribal swarm that fills the board with 1/1 Insect tokens while milling its own library. Insect cards and creatures land in the graveyard, which powers graveyard-count payoffs, recasting from the graveyard and mass reanimation. Tokens are fodder for sacrifice outlets that draw cards, kill opposing threats through Grist's −2 and grow counters, and Insect lords turn the swarm into evasive, deathtouching attackers. How it wins: The deck overwhelms opponents with a wide board of Insects buffed with menace, flying or deathtouch, plus life drain from Insect deaths, attacks and creatures moving to the graveyard, finished by Grist's −5 or a huge graveyard reanimation turn. Key roles: - Insect token engines: Repeatable and burst token makers flood the board with Insects for chump blocking, sacrifice fodder and wide attacks, often scaling with creature cards in the graveyard or with landfall (Ant Queen, Hornet Queen, Scute Swarm) - Self-mill fuel: Milling, through Grist's +1, enchantments and enter-the-battlefield effects, stocks the graveyard with creatures for count-based payoffs, and milled Insects push Grist's loyalty higher (Carrion Grub, Crawling Infestation, Deadbridge Chant) - Graveyard recursion and recasting: Insects and lands are replayed from the graveyard, creature cards are stacked back on top of the library, and big reanimation turns bring back threats. Cards leaving the graveyard also trigger extra token and drain payoffs (Zask, Skittering Swarmlord, Living Death, Amzu, Swarm's Hunger) - Sacrifice value: Outlets convert spare Insects into cards, mana, removal and +1/+1 counters, while death triggers add more tokens (Skullclamp, Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest, Fumulus, the Infestation) - Swarm anthems and evasion: Lords hand the Insect army menace, deathtouch and stat boosts so a wide board of 1/1s can actually connect (Amzu, Swarm's Hunger, The Swarmweaver, Zask, Skittering Swarmlord) - Aristocrat drain finish: Insect deaths, attacks and creature cards hitting or leaving the graveyard each chip life from every opponent, closing games alongside Grist's −5 (Syr Konrad, the Grim, Aatchik, Emerald Radian, Fumulus, the Infestation)

Grist, the Hunger Tide decklist

• Arcane Signet
• Conduit of Worlds
• Hedge Shredder
• Skullclamp
• Sol Ring
• Bojuka Bog
• Command Tower
• Dakmor Salvage
• Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
• Deathcap Glade
• Exotic Orchard
• 8× Forest
• Golgari Rot Farm
• Llanowar Wastes
• Overgrown Tomb
• Phyrexian Tower
• 7× Swamp
• Swarmyard
• Tainted Wood
• Temple of Malady
• Three Tree City
• Twilight Mire
• Underground Mortuary
• Undergrowth Stadium
• Verdant Catacombs
• Woodland Cemetery
• Aatchik, Emerald Radian
• Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
• Ant Queen
• Bane of the Living
• Blightbeetle
• Broodhatch Nantuko
• Carrion Grub
• Caustic Caterpillar
• Caustic Wasps
• Circuit Mender
• Fumulus, the Infestation
• Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
• Haywire Mite
• Hornet Nest
• Hornet Queen
• Icetill Explorer
• Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
• Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• Moldgraf Millipede
• Molt Tender
• Mortician Beetle
• Nantuko Elder
• Nantuko Husk
• Realmwalker
• Scute Mob
• Scute Swarm
• Seedship Broodtender
• Spring-Leaf Avenger
• Springheart Nantuko
• Stinging Cave Crawler
• Syr Konrad, the Grim
• The Swarmweaver
• Xantid Swarm
• Zask, Skittering Swarmlord
• Crawling Infestation
• Crawling Sensation
• Deadbridge Chant
• Insidious Roots
• Liliana's Talent
• The Hunger Tide Rises
• Assassin's Trophy
• Bone Harvest
• Footbottom Feast
• Gravepurge
• Grisly Salvage
• Heroic Intervention
• Village Rites
• Vraska, Golgari Queen
• Cultivate
• Demonic Tutor
• Dread Return
• Forever Young
• Life from the Loam
• Living Death
• Rampant Growth
• Swamp
• Forest
• Swamp
• Dark Prophecy
• Worldly Tutor