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Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm

Legendary Creature — Insect // Legendary Planeswalker — Grist · {G} · Black/Green commander

Deathtouch Whenever Grist or another creature you control enters, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, you may pay {G}. If you do, exile Grist, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. +1: Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then mill two cards. Put a deathtouch counter on the token if a black card was milled this way. −2: Destroy target artifact or enchantment. −6: For each creature card in your graveyard, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 1/1 black and green Insect.

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What Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm 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 · etbWhenever Grist or another creature you control enters, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, you may pay {G}. If you do, exile Grist, then return it to the battlefield
• Activated ability+1: Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then mill two cards. Put a deathtouch counter on the token if a black card was milled this way.
• Activated ability−2: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• Activated ability−6: For each creature card in your graveyard, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 1/1 black and green Insect.
• Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch

What a Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm deck needs

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

• creatures cast or returned from the graveyard (each one transforms it)
• self-mill
• protection for the planeswalker side

The Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm deck plan

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

• 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 6× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
• 6× Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 10× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 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

Best cards for Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm

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