Green Drain by user9256702

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This Golgari Aristocrats deck uses Dina, Essence Brewer as a dependable card advantage engine in the command zone. The deck opens with efficient Turn 1 mana dorks such as Birds of Paradise and Llanowar Elves to cast Dina on Turn 2. During the midgame, it establishes resilient token production using Ophiomancer, Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia, and Chatterfang, Squirrel General alongside free sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer and Carrion Feeder. The engine converts creature deaths into steady card draw and table-wide life drain through Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Bastion of Remembrance. Burst draw spells like Plumb the Forbidden accelerate the clock, while Dictate of Erebos and Culling Ritual suppress opposing creature boards. Although the list lacks countermagic and instant-win combos, its deep redundancy and recurring resources steadily close out games by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodthrone Vampire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolutionary Leap
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jaspera Sentinel
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mausoleum Secrets
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pattern of Rebirth
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Smothering Abomination
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Squirrel Nest
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Witherbloom Campus
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Witherbloom Command
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat