ENCORE by Mellamopoyo

Format: Commander

Commander: Araumi of the Dead Tide

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir reanimator strategy piloted by Araumi of the Dead Tide, focused on abusing the encore mechanic in a four-player game. By exiling cards from the graveyard, Araumi grants encore to high-impact creature cards, producing three hasty copies that trigger enter-the-battlefield, combat, and death effects symmetrically across all opponents. The early game focuses on accelerating mana with low-cost rocks and aggressively filling the graveyard with enablers like Stitcher's Supplier, Mesmeric Orb, and Buried Alive. Midgame turns convert this graveyard setup into overwhelming board swings using untappers like Fatestitcher and Aphetto Alchemist to activate Araumi multiple times in a single turn. The deck closes games via explosive life drain sequences using Peregrine Drake for massive mana generation paired with Gray Merchant of Asphodel or Kokusho, the Evening Star, wiping out opposing life totals across two tightly sequenced turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Aphetto Alchemist
  • 1 Araumi of the Dead Tide
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cemetery Tampering
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Convergence of Dominion
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Deserted Temple
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Discontinuity
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatestitcher
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kairi, the Swirling Sky
  • 1 Keiga, the Tide Star
  • 1 Kelpie Guide
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana the Repentant
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mire Triton
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Multiply by Zero
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Omen Hawker
  • 1 Oriq Loremage
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sundial of the Infinite
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Teardrop Kami
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Withering Torment