life gain by Aripash

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This Golgari deck utilizes Dina, Essence Brewer to convert oversized, undercosted creatures into massive life gains, card draw, and decisive life drain. By pairing heavy stat monsters like Daemogoth Titan, Yargle and Multani, and Kalakscion, Hunger Tyrant with Dina's activated sacrifice ability, the deck rapidly gains double-digit life totals while stacking +1/+1 counters onto its commander. These bursts of life gain fuel secondary payoffs like Defiling Daemogoth, Tivash, Gloom Summoner, and Blossoming Bogbeast, creating wide Demon swarms and trampling alpha strikes. Alternatively, Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord provides a direct fling finish that bypasses combat entirely to drain each opponent simultaneously. The deck boasts strong recursion through Meren of Clan Nel Toth and Moseo, Vein's New Dean, granting it resilience against board wipes. However, it lacks dedicated instant-speed protection and stack interaction, requiring careful timing during setup turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accomplished Alchemist
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Baloth Prime
  • 1 Bebop & Rocksteady
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bygone Colossus
  • 1 Caustic Bronco
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystalline Crawler
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Daemogoth Titan
  • 1 Daemogoth Woe-Eater
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Engulfing Slagwurm
  • 1 Ezzaroot Channeler
  • 1 Fell Beast of Mordor
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
  • 1 Gumdrop Poisoner // Tempt with Treats
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Host of the Hereafter
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Kalakscion, Hunger Tyrant
  • 1 Lifestream's Blessing
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mask of Griselbrand
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Rampant Rejuvenator
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Slumbering Trudge
  • 1 Smothering Abomination
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Sproutback Trudge
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
  • 1 Tivash, Gloom Summoner
  • 1 Topiary Lecturer
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragedy Feaster
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Willowdusk, Essence Seer
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
  • 1 Yargle and Multani
  • 1 Yargle, Glutton of Urborg