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Grismold, the Dreadsower

Legendary Creature — Troll Shaman · {1}{B}{G} · Black/Green commander

Trample At the beginning of your end step, each player creates a 1/1 green Plant creature token. Whenever a creature token dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Grismold.

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What Grismold, the Dreadsower actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · end_stepAt the beginning of your end step, each player creates a 1/1 green Plant creature token.
• Triggered ability · deathWhenever a creature token dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Grismold.
• Keyword · trampletrample

What a Grismold, the Dreadsower deck needs

Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• expendable creatures and free sacrifice outlets (its payoff is creatures dying)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)

The Grismold, the Dreadsower deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 15× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 10× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 8× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 8× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Grismold, the Dreadsower

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Combos with Grismold, the Dreadsower

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Grismold, the Dreadsower is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Grismold, the Dreadsower + Animation Module + Ashnod's Altar275 decks
• Grismold, the Dreadsower + Animation Module + Phyrexian Altar102 decks
• Grismold, the Dreadsower + Esix, Fractal Bloom + Timestream Navigator

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