4.1 - Winter the Necromancer by user3591559

Format: Commander

Commander: Winter, Cynical Opportunist

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 78

Deck overview

This competitive Golgari deck leverages Winter, Cynical Opportunist alongside a premier reanimation and fast mana package to achieve blistering early-game kills. The primary game plan accelerates into an early graveyard tutor like Entomb or Buried Alive, then reanimates Razaketh, the Foulblooded or Vilis, Broker of Blood on Turn 3. Razaketh converts mana dorks and tokens into rituals, enabling a seamless pivot into Bolas's Citadel, Sensei's Divining Top, and Aetherflux Reservoir to eliminate all three opponents in a single turn. Backed by asymmetric hate pieces like Opposition Agent and Orcish Bowmasters, the deck applies proactive pressure on opposing strategies while maintaining resilience through secondary engines like Shifting Woodland, Six, and The Gitrog Monster.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Malevolent Rumble
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squandered Resources
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traverse the Ulvenwald
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Winter, Cynical Opportunist
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will