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I love Grist. A cool card I found for her that works as a great sac outlet and control piece is Thelonite Monk. Card is ancient and has since been errata'd to be an Insect Monk Cleric. The ability is "Tap, Sac a green creature: Target land becomes a forest." Card is under $1.
Ive been building a budget hogaak self-mill list, and some of my favorite cards are Dogged Detective and Sanguine Spy. The detective is a body that can be repeatably used as sacrifice or discard fodder, and helps set up the top of the deck with Surveil, which seems like it would be good value for grist. The Spy is a sac outlet that Surveils (it’s been errata’d to be surveil), and when we have enough cards in our yard (which we almost always do) it actually acts as card draw. Best part is, they are fairly low on the curve, coming in at 2 and 3 mana respectively, and they are super cheap. I’d give them a shot!
@@dawsengoodfellow9891 Sanguine spy I'm actually using in an upcoming deck! I'm concerned about paying the one to sacrifice a creature, it might get in the way more often then not since the deck doesn't run much mana. The card draw would be nice though, I'll see about adding it. Dogged detective is really cool, but don't see quite adding it to the deck list. But definitely saving that card for a future deck, I know it'll come in handy!!
Some fair points! I think for me, I run sanguine spy as card draw with the added potential of being a possible sac outlet in a pinch. My deck is heavily focused on milling myself though, and less focused on sacrificing, so for me it works. I like that it’s a creature, which makes it much easier to recur, and I’m less concerned if I mill it compared to, say, a Phyrexian arena. It may need some set up, but I find that in the right deck, the setup is usually done by the time I need it. Dogged detective is also good in my dedicated mill strategy, since I want cards that I can do things with in the grave in the likely case that i mill them. It’s a cheap body that can add more things to the yard, and acts as one of the two bodies I need on board to cast hogaak for his convoke/delve. It’s also has a very low CMC, making it great for my firja reanimator deck as well. Your deck does run mill, but seems maybe less concerned with it, so I could see not wanting the detective. The spy I would look at more as repeatable card draw that has the additional ability to be a sac outlet in a pinch, that happens to line up with your theme. Something I run into with hogaak is that I have a ton of cards in my yard, but my hand can end up empty fast, so having things I can use from the yard and some good repeatable card draw has been great for me. I’d be excited to see what you build next!
@@dawsengoodfellow9891 ohh firja was a commander i was potentially looking at in the future, that's a good idea. And thank you! Hopefully it's a spicy enough brew lol but the next ones more janky
very interesting, i made a grist deck that was definitely not budget, although with proxies, last year many new and strong insects been printed since then
its mostly about controlling the top of the library to assure a large number of tokens being created, then using those tokens as well as some +2/+2 and trample effects to punch everyone in the face with a massive army of little insects, I did include a bunch of expensive cards that might make the deck feel too powerful or even easy to pilot sometimes so i might consider nerfing it a bit sometime
Been thinking about building Grist myself eventually, so it's cool to see a budget build for her that revolves around creatures only. I did have a single question and I'm sorry for it being so off topic, what song did you use from 0:48 to 2:28 ? It's killing meeeee
Im running the 72 insect meme deck with 28 lands, definitely not budget since i run all the fetch lands to deck think as much as possible. Very janky but u can consistently get 3 mana easily since this deck gets stronger as you mulligan and put more insects into your deck!
if youre running just creatures and lands, Umori Companion would be a good open too to not only reduce creature casting costs but if it dies its an additional creature into the graveyard and lets you use mana if youre flooded
@@kiawewoof4526 Umori is really good here, sadly I missed Umori when making the video, but it's updated in the deck list link! Umori is an amazing addition, and still fits in the budget funny enough.
Thank you for the supportive comments!!
This video really blew up the channel, pretty much tripled the sub count. I'll talk more about it in the next MTG video.
Speaking of,The next MTG video will be a 1/3 lesson released on Halloween. See you next time! 💙 🖤
I love Grist. A cool card I found for her that works as a great sac outlet and control piece is Thelonite Monk. Card is ancient and has since been errata'd to be an Insect Monk Cleric. The ability is "Tap, Sac a green creature: Target land becomes a forest." Card is under $1.
@@pendragon177 Yeah that card goes crazy, I added that ASAP.
Thanks for the suggestion! (Budget still under 50$ with the change too 👍)
Awesome video, just subscribed! Will be playing this list soon
Ive been building a budget hogaak self-mill list, and some of my favorite cards are Dogged Detective and Sanguine Spy.
The detective is a body that can be repeatably used as sacrifice or discard fodder, and helps set up the top of the deck with Surveil, which seems like it would be good value for grist.
The Spy is a sac outlet that Surveils (it’s been errata’d to be surveil), and when we have enough cards in our yard (which we almost always do) it actually acts as card draw.
Best part is, they are fairly low on the curve, coming in at 2 and 3 mana respectively, and they are super cheap. I’d give them a shot!
@@dawsengoodfellow9891 Sanguine spy I'm actually using in an upcoming deck!
I'm concerned about paying the one to sacrifice a creature, it might get in the way more often then not since the deck doesn't run much mana. The card draw would be nice though, I'll see about adding it.
Dogged detective is really cool, but don't see quite adding it to the deck list. But definitely saving that card for a future deck, I know it'll come in handy!!
Some fair points! I think for me, I run sanguine spy as card draw with the added potential of being a possible sac outlet in a pinch. My deck is heavily focused on milling myself though, and less focused on sacrificing, so for me it works. I like that it’s a creature, which makes it much easier to recur, and I’m less concerned if I mill it compared to, say, a Phyrexian arena. It may need some set up, but I find that in the right deck, the setup is usually done by the time I need it. Dogged detective is also good in my dedicated mill strategy, since I want cards that I can do things with in the grave in the likely case that i mill them. It’s a cheap body that can add more things to the yard, and acts as one of the two bodies I need on board to cast hogaak for his convoke/delve. It’s also has a very low CMC, making it great for my firja reanimator deck as well. Your deck does run mill, but seems maybe less concerned with it, so I could see not wanting the detective. The spy I would look at more as repeatable card draw that has the additional ability to be a sac outlet in a pinch, that happens to line up with your theme. Something I run into with hogaak is that I have a ton of cards in my yard, but my hand can end up empty fast, so having things I can use from the yard and some good repeatable card draw has been great for me. I’d be excited to see what you build next!
@@dawsengoodfellow9891 ohh firja was a commander i was potentially looking at in the future, that's a good idea.
And thank you! Hopefully it's a spicy enough brew lol but the next ones more janky
very interesting, i made a grist deck that was definitely not budget, although with proxies, last year
many new and strong insects been printed since then
its mostly about controlling the top of the library to assure a large number of tokens being created, then using those tokens as well as some +2/+2 and trample effects to punch everyone in the face with a massive army of little insects,
I did include a bunch of expensive cards that might make the deck feel too powerful or even easy to pilot sometimes so i might consider nerfing it a bit sometime
I have also won using liliana's talent twice already which is quite fun, seeing how easy it is for grist to get many loyalty counters
I don't use Planeswalkers walkers too often, but Lilianas talent would be sick on Grist @@phenix4181
Loving the fact that you used Hollow Knight's OST as the soundtrack to this video 😍 also, fantastic deck tech!!
Been thinking about building Grist myself eventually, so it's cool to see a budget build for her that revolves around creatures only. I did have a single question and I'm sorry for it being so off topic, what song did you use from 0:48 to 2:28 ? It's killing meeeee
Not off topic at all! It's called "Greenpath" from Hollow Knight. Thought it was fitting since bug game/bug commander
thank you soo much
Im running the 72 insect meme deck with 28 lands, definitely not budget since i run all the fetch lands to deck think as much as possible. Very janky but u can consistently get 3 mana easily since this deck gets stronger as you mulligan and put more insects into your deck!
@@II-xv1hp I never considered the mulligan being used to put the insects BACK into the deck, that's genius
Hey awesome vid. Keep it up buddy ! ❤
if youre running just creatures and lands, Umori Companion would be a good open too to not only reduce creature casting costs but if it dies its an additional creature into the graveyard and lets you use mana if youre flooded
@@kiawewoof4526 Umori is really good here, sadly I missed Umori when making the video, but it's updated in the deck list link!
Umori is an amazing addition, and still fits in the budget funny enough.
surprised not to see rust scarab here, but cool deck man :)
@@CG-uo6wu Thanks!
And I'm definitely gonna try and add that to the deck list, never heard of rust scarab before, it's a pretty cool design.
Wait if this is all creatures you can throw in Umori!
30 lands garbo
@@alexroel123 Found the mono green player