Botanical Crimes by LewsTherin89

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

Dina, Essence Brewer commands a Golgari midrange deck that converts high creature power into massive life totals, +1/+1 counters, and overwhelming combat pressure. The deck accelerates through early ramp pieces like Exploration, Gyre Sage, and Kami of Whispered Hopes to deploy Dina, Essence Brewer by Turn 3. On Turn 4 and 5, explosive stat engines such as Wall of Blood, Railway Brawler, and Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider hit the battlefield. Dina sacrifices oversized creatures to distribute dozens of counters across trampling threats or evasive attackers like Inkmoth Nexus. Card flow from Dina, The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride, and The Great Henge keeps resources flowing while sweepers like Culling Ritual and Toxic Deluge clear opposing boards. The deck closes games around Turn 7 through decisive, multi-turn combat eliminations.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Chief Warg's Company
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Doc Samson, Super Psychiatrist
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Emperor of Bones
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gift of the Viper
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Head of the Hunt
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Host of the Hereafter
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Oviya, Automech Artisan
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Railway Brawler
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Runadi, Behemoth Caller
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Tom, Bert, and William
  • 1 Topiary Lecturer
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Warden of the Grove
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Woodfall Primus
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician