Grist, the Hunger Tide
Legendary Planeswalker — Grist
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.
Loyalty 3
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2 (MH2 #306)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2021-06-18
- Artist
- Victor Adame Minguez
- EDHREC rank
- #1,961
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos 22
All 22 combos.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Caustic Caterpillar
- Zask, Skittering Swarmlord
- Hornet Queen
- Aatchik, Emerald Radian
- Grist, Voracious Larva
- Hornet Nest
- Blightbeetle
- Giant Adephage
- Scute Mob
- Scute Swarm
- Spring-Leaf Avenger
- Moldgraf Millipede
- Gravepurge
- Forever Young
- Haywire Mite
- Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
- Nantuko Elder
- Broodhatch Nantuko
- Huskburster Swarm
- Fumulus, the Infestation
- Seedship Broodtender
- Icetill Explorer
- Footbottom Feast
- Carrion Grub
- Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
- Mortician Beetle
- Nantuko Husk
- Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
- Stinging Cave Crawler
- Crawling Infestation
- Circuit Mender
- Molt Tender
- Springheart Nantuko
- Ant Queen
- Realmwalker
- Dread Return
- Kraul Harpooner
- Bone Harvest
- Crawling Sensation
- Devouring Swarm
- Liliana's Talent
- Swarmyard
- Gene Pollinator
- Xantid Swarm
- Bane of the Living
- Masked Vandal
- Altanak, the Thrice-Called
- The Swarmweaver
- Caustic Wasps
- Vorapede
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Forest
- Swamp
- Command Tower
- Caustic Caterpillar
- Haywire Mite
- Sol Ring
- Scute Swarm
- Hornet Queen
- Grist, Voracious Larva
- Aatchik, Emerald Radian
- Zask, Skittering Swarmlord
- Hornet Nest
- Giant Adephage
- Blightbeetle
- Woodland Cemetery
- Scute Mob
- Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
- Moldgraf Millipede
- Spring-Leaf Avenger
- Skullclamp
- Gravepurge
- Arcane Signet
- Forever Young
- Icetill Explorer
- Fumulus, the Infestation
- Broodhatch Nantuko
- Nantuko Elder
- Llanowar Wastes
- Huskburster Swarm
- Seedship Broodtender
- Overgrown Tomb
- Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
- Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
- Swarmyard
- Carrion Grub
- Mortician Beetle
- Footbottom Feast
- Tainted Wood
- Victimize
- Dread Return
- Nantuko Husk
- Springheart Nantuko
- Realmwalker
- Crawling Infestation
- Golgari Rot Farm
- Stinging Cave Crawler
- Circuit Mender
- Crawling Sensation
- Temple of Malady
- Molt Tender
Format legality
Rulings
- 2021-06-18
Anywhere but on the battlefield, Grist is a Legendary Planeswalker Creature — Grist Insect. Once it enters the battlefield, it is no longer a creature and is just a planeswalker. Anything that could search for or affect a creature or planeswalker card in zones other than the battlefield could affect Grist. For example, you could put it onto the battlefield with Chord of Calling, it could be countered by Essence Scatter (but not by Negate), and opponents couldn't make you discard it with Duress.
- 2021-06-18
Count the number of creature cards in your graveyard as the third loyalty ability resolves to determine how much life each opponent loses. If Grist is in your graveyard at this time, it'll be a creature card and will contribute to the count.
- 2021-06-18
Grist's second loyalty ability doesn't require a target. If you choose to sacrifice a creature as it resolves, the reflexive triggered ability triggers and you'll choose a target creature or planeswalker to destroy. This will happen even if Grist isn't on the battlefield when the loyalty ability resolves.
- 2021-06-18
Grist, the Hunger Tide can be your commander as its first ability works before the game begins during deck construction.
- 2021-06-18
If Grist is no longer on the battlefield as its first loyalty ability resolves, you will still create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token and mill a card. If an Insect card is milled this way, you won't be able to put a loyalty counter on Grist, but you will still repeat the process. More mill for the Grist, as it were.