Book of Souls by GrimlockX

Format: Commander

Creator: GrimlockX

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Golgari Aristocrats engine commanded by Dina, Essence Brewer. The game plan revolves around generating continuous card advantage and life gain through sacrifice triggers, setting up an explosive same-turn infinite combo. By combining cheap, recursive creatures like Gravecrawler, Bloodghast, and token generators with free sacrifice outlets like Warren Soultrader, Carrion Feeder, and Viscera Seer, the deck easily controls board flow. It converts this board presence into lethal drain via Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, or Cauldron of Essence. High-impact spells such as Culling Ritual, Ad Nauseam, and Bolas's Citadel provide burst mana and massive card velocity to assemble lines quickly. With secondary win conditions including Exquisite Blood paired with Sanguine Bond and Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord sacrificing a massive Jumbo Cactuar, the deck maintains multiple overlapping routes to victory while disrupting opponents with efficient spot removal and sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell Beast of Mordor
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jarad's Orders
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Lesser Masticore
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Petrified Hamlet
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Prowling Geistcatcher
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Quina, Qu Gourmet
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Abomination
  • 8 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Witherbloom Campus
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat