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Grist, the Hunger Tide

· Legendary Planeswalker — Grist · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

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Times Brought

244

Decks Running

124

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

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

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Yongjae Choi

Final zone distribution

80 instances

3.8%

Library

23.8%

Battlefield

52.5%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

244 brought · 112 players

Brought to game

244

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -11.6pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=28) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=121).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap -1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -11.6pp to +9.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=78

17%

29%

13%

12%

21%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 3 · P75 5 · max 11

On curve 53% (23 / 78 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.