Pest services by otori77

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This Golgari aristocrats deck, helmed by Dina, Essence Brewer, converts creature deaths and life-gain triggers into a relentless drain on all opponents. The commander provides a repeatable sacrifice outlet that draws a card each turn and converts sacrificed creatures into life and +1/+1 counters. The 99 is built around a dense token engine - Bitterblossom, Awakening Zone, Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia, Ribbrust Roaster, and Mycoloth - feeding a deep sacrifice-outlet suite. Every death and life-gain event is weaponized through Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Dina, Soul Steeper, and Defiling Daemogoth. Doubling Season and Parallel Lives multiply token output for a massive final sacrifice turn, while Beledros Witherbloom provides a mana engine to fuel a huge Pest Infestation or Exsanguinate finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Comforting Counsel
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creakwood Liege
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Feral Appetite
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Final Act
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
  • 1 Merchant of Venom
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nested Shambler
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Ominous Harvest
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Smothering Abomination
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Trudge Garden
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warden of the Grove
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat