Yard Fart by ronansting

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ancient One

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Dimir deck uses The Ancient One as a repeatable draw-discard-mill engine to power descend 8 and fill the graveyard for reanimation. You mill permanents early with Stitcher's Supplier, Thought Scour, and looters, then use the yard as a second hand to recur threats. The primary win is incremental drain from Syr Konrad, Dreadhound, Starving Revenant, and Gray Merchant, backed by reanimation loops via The Cauldron of Eternity and Chainer. The Ancient One becomes an 8/8 attacker once descend is online, but the hidden commanders are Syr Konrad and Chainer, which actually close games while the commander enables them.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asmodeus the Archfiend
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Doomed Necromancer
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 14 Island
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
  • 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Mausoleum Secrets
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mizzium Skin
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Necrotic Ooze
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Obsessive Stitcher
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starving Revenant
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terror Tide
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Cauldron of Eternity
  • 1 The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
  • 1 Wail of the Forgotten
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Woe Strider