Dina by Swim_Shady

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari sacrifice-and-life-gain value engine helmed by Dina, Essence Brewer. The primary game plan revolves around repeatedly sacrificing creatures to generate card draw (via Dina's triggered ability), gain life, and then convert that life into opponent life loss through drain effects like Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Enduring Tenacity, and Bloodletter of Aclazotz. The deck also leverages +1/+1 counter synergies from Corpsejack Menace, Kami of Whispered Hopes, and The Ozolith to amplify its creature presence. Wins come from either a massive life-drain turn (sacrificing a pumped creature to Dina's activated ability while a drain effect is on board), a Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord sacrifice of a huge creature, or a combat overrun with Craterhoof Behemoth. The deck is heavily recursive, with Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Cauldron of Essence, and Phyrexian Reclamation providing repeated access to creatures.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Daemogoth Titan
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Disciple of Griselbrand
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Merchant of Venom
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Phytotitan
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Professor Hojo
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rotting Regisaur
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Slumbering Trudge
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth