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Grave Expectations
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Est deck cost: $984.95
Salt sum: 36.7
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Commander

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Grist, the Hunger Tide

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.

Planeswalker
Grist, the Hunger Tide (sld) 1417

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Counters

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Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest

Flying Whenever a player sacrifices another permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest (sld) 1418
Mortician Beetle

Whenever a player sacrifices a creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Mortician Beetle (mm3) 78
Scute Mob

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control five or more lands, put four +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Scute Mob (c18) 161

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Drain

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Fumulus, the Infestation

Flying, deathtouch Whenever a player sacrifices a nontoken creature, create a 1/1 black Insect creature token with flying. Whenever an Insect, Leech, Slug, or Worm you control attacks, defending player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Fumulus, the Infestation (j25) 42
Funeral Room

Enchantment
Funeral Room // Awakening Hall (dsk) 338
Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (znc) 56

Drain

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Draw

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Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (mb2) 39
Circuit Mender

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Circuit Mender (blc) 267
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed

Undergrowth — When Izoni enters, create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token for each creature card in your graveyard. {B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed (grn) 180
Lolth, Spider Queen

Whenever a creature you control dies, put a loyalty counter on Lolth. 0: You draw a card and you lose 1 life. −3: Create two 2/1 black Spider creature tokens with menace and reach. −8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent is dealt combat damage by one or more creatures you control, if that player lost less than 8 life this turn, they lose life equal to the difference."

Planeswalker
Lolth, Spider Queen (afr) 112
Matzalantli, the Great Door

Artifact
Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (sld) 1112
Stinging Cave Crawler

Deathtouch Descend 4 — Whenever this creature attacks, if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Stinging Cave Crawler (lci) 124

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Land

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Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mb2) 106
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (sld) 1496
Dakmor Salvage

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Land
Dakmor Salvage (uma) 240
Deathcap Glade

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Deathcap Glade (vow) 281
Drownyard Temple

{T}: Add {C}. {3}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Land
Drownyard Temple (dsc) 272
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (blb) 252
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (one) 271
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (mb2) 109
Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (c20) 277
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (afc) 246
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (blc) 315
Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Overgrown Tomb (rvr) 296
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (cmm) 661
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Shifting Woodland

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest. {T}: Add {G}. Delirium — {2}{G}{G}: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Land
Shifting Woodland (mh3) 357
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (one) 269
Swarmyard

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Land
Swarmyard (blc) 133
Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Land
Three Tree City (blb) 338
Underground Mortuary

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Underground Mortuary (mkm) 333
Undergrowth Stadium

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmm) 666
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
Wasteland

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Land
Wasteland (mb2) 115
Wastewood Verge

{T}: Add {G}. {T}: Add {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Forest.

Land
Wastewood Verge (dft) 374
Woodland Cemetery

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dsc) 326

Land

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Mill

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Carrion Grub

This creature gets +X/+0, where X is the greatest power among creature cards in your graveyard. When this creature enters, mill four cards. (Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Carrion Grub (cmm) 143
Hermit Druid

{G}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a basic land card. Put that card into your hand and all other cards revealed this way into your graveyard.

Creature
Hermit Druid (inr) 202
Moldgraf Millipede

When this creature enters, mill three cards, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each creature card in your graveyard. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Moldgraf Millipede (j22) 691
Out of the Tombs

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two eon counters on this enchantment, then mill cards equal to the number of eon counters on it. If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If you can't, you lose the game.

Enchantment
Out of the Tombs (40k) 46★

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Ramp

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Altanak, the Thrice-Called

Trample Whenever Altanak becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, draw a card. {1}{G}, Discard this card: Return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Altanak, the Thrice-Called (dsk) 166
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (sld) 1492
Dryad Arbor

(This land isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "{T}: Add {G}.")

Creature Land
Dryad Arbor (dsc) 273
Insidious Roots

Creature tokens you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.

Enchantment
Insidious Roots (mkm) 208
Life from the Loam

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Sorcery
Life from the Loam (rvr) 434
Loam Larva

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Creature
Loam Larva (ogw) 135
Molt Tender

{T}: Mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.) {T}, Exile a card from your graveyard: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Molt Tender (dft) 171
Nantuko Elder

{T}: Add {C}{G}.

Creature
Nantuko Elder (plst) ODY-254
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (clb) 244
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (sld) 1494
Spineseeker Centipede

When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Delirium — This creature gets +1/+2 and has vigilance as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Spineseeker Centipede (dsk) 199
Wrenn and Seven

+1: Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. 0: Put any number of land cards from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. −3: Create a green Treefolk creature token with reach and "This token's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." −8: Return all permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand. You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size."

Planeswalker
Wrenn and Seven (mid) 208

Ramp

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Recursion

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Agadeem's Awakening

Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90
Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180
Bone Harvest

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Bone Harvest (mir) 108
Broodheart Engine

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. {2}{B}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target creature or Vehicle card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Broodheart Engine (dft) 193
Conduit of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard. {T}: Choose target nonland permanent card in your graveyard. If you haven't cast a spell this turn, you may cast that card. If you do, you can't cast additional spells this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Conduit of Worlds (one) 163
Footbottom Feast

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

Instant
Footbottom Feast (lrw) 115
Gravepurge

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

Instant
Gravepurge (plst) DTK-104
Haunted Crossroads

{B}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Enchantment
Haunted Crossroads (mmq) 138
Liliana's Talent

Enchant planeswalker Enchanted planeswalker has "[−8]: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control." Whenever a creature deals damage to enchanted planeswalker, destroy that creature.

Enchantment
Liliana's Talent (moc) 76
Noxious Revival

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.) Put target card from a graveyard on top of its owner's library.

Instant
Noxious Revival (sld) 1416
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (dsc) 155
Spring-Leaf Avenger

Ninjutsu {3}{G} ({3}{G}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Spring-Leaf Avenger (neo) 481
Walk-In Closet

Enchantment
Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar (dsk) 341
Zask, Skittering Swarmlord

You may play lands and cast Insect spells from your graveyard. Whenever another Insect you control dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library, then mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) {1}{B/G}: Target Insect gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. ({B/G} can be paid with either {B} or {G}.)

Creature
Zask, Skittering Swarmlord (j22) 47

Recursion

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Removal

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Bane of the Living

Morph {X}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Creature
Bane of the Living (c19) 104
Blightbeetle

Protection from green (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything green.) Creatures your opponents control can't have +1/+1 counters put on them.

Creature
Blightbeetle (m20) 87
Caustic Caterpillar

{1}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Caustic Caterpillar (plst) ORI-170
Grist, Voracious Larva

Creature
Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 251Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 251
Haywire Mite

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life. {G}, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.

Creature Artifact
Haywire Mite (blc) 274
Swarmyard Massacre

Create two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens. Then each creature that isn't an Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each creature you control that's an Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel.

Sorcery
Swarmyard Massacre (blc) 20
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (inr) 122
Webstrike Elite

Reach Cycling {X}{G}{G} ({X}{G}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment with mana value X.

Creature
Webstrike Elite (dft) 186

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Sac Outlet

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Devouring Swarm

Flying Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Devouring Swarm (j22) 401
Nantuko Husk

Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature
Nantuko Husk (plst) ORI-109

Sac Outlet

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Tokens

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Aatchik, Emerald Radian

When Aatchik enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token for each artifact and/or creature card in your graveyard. Whenever another Insect you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Aatchik. Each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Aatchik, Emerald Radian (dft) 360
Amzu, Swarm's Hunger

Flying, menace Other Insects you control have menace. Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, you may create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the greatest mana value among those cards. Do this only once each turn.

Creature
Amzu, Swarm's Hunger (clu) 24
Broodhatch Nantuko

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you may create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens. Morph {2}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature
Broodhatch Nantuko (plst) ONS-250
Doubling Season

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead. If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.

Enchantment
Doubling Season (wot) 52
Giant Adephage

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Giant Adephage (sld) 1415
Hornet Nest

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt damage, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Hornet Nest (scd) 189
Hornet Queen

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, create four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch.

Creature
Hornet Queen (mkc) 172
It of the Horrid Swarm

Emerge {6}{G} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.) When you cast this spell, create two 1/1 green Insect creature tokens.

Creature
It of the Horrid Swarm (inr) 6
Living Hive

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens.

Creature
Living Hive (hop) 75
Scute Swarm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that's a copy of this creature instead.

Creature
Scute Swarm (otc) 205
Springheart Nantuko

Bestow {1}{G} Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay {1}{G} if this permanent is attached to a creature you control. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature. If you didn't create a token this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

Creature Enchantment
Springheart Nantuko (mh3) 171

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Tutor

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Eldritch Evolution

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, where X is 2 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Exile Eldritch Evolution.

Sorcery
Eldritch Evolution (sld) 1414
Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Grim Tutor (m21) 315
Summoner's Pact

Search your library for a green creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {2}{G}{G}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant
Summoner's Pact (mb2) 74
Sylvan Tutor

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Sorcery
Sylvan Tutor (spg) 59
Traverse the Ulvenwald

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for a creature or land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Traverse the Ulvenwald (inr) 422

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Description

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