Dina by Jawdy

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This Golgari deck pairs an aristocrats engine with an infinite lifegain combo. Commanded by Dina, Essence Brewer, the deck generates early board presence through low-cost ramp and recurring creature generators like Ophiomancer and Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia. Dina turns creature sacrifices into steady card advantage and +1/+1 counters. The deck controls opposing battlefields using versatile removal like Assassin's Trophy, Mortality Spear, and sweeping answers like Culling Ritual and The Meathook Massacre. Mid-game value engines like Bastion of Remembrance, Morbid Opportunist, and Beledros Witherbloom gradually drain opponents while padding life totals. The primary win condition is an infinite two-card loop combining Bloodthirsty Conqueror with Dina, Soul Steeper or Enduring Tenacity, which can be found via Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor to drain all opponents in a single turn. The deck recovers rapidly from removal thanks to recursive graveyard threats and redundant engine pieces in the 99.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Crossroads Village
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Efflorescence
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feral Appetite
  • 1 Final Act
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Infirmary Healer // Stream of Life
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ranger's Guile
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spoils of Evil
  • 1 Stream of Life
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Terrian, World Tyrant
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Rack
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Trudge Garden
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unknown Shores
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warlock Class
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Whisperer of the Wilds
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat