🙃Dina: Soul Steeper by lane.hix2319

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Soul Steeper

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is helmed by Dina, Soul Steeper, blending traditional aristocrat sacrifice synergies with deterministic two-card life-drain combo lines. The early game focuses on deploying efficient 1-2 CMC green ramp spells and mana artifacts to establish a stable mana base while casting Dina on Turn 2. Mid-game turns generate steady incremental value using sacrifice fodder such as Reassembling Skeleton and Gravecrawler alongside draw engines like Skullclamp and Moldervine Reclamation. The deck's primary victory route is assembling an infinite life-drain loop on Turn 5 by combining Dina with Exquisite Blood, or by casting Witherbloom Apprentice followed by self-targeting Chain of Smog. While possessing solid creature-based board control and recursion, the deck relies on attempting its combo into open mana due to limited stack protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avoid Fate
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Researcher
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Ivy Lane Denizen
  • 1 Jaddi Offshoot
  • 1 Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rendclaw Trow
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tenacious Dead
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warping Wail
  • 1 Winding Constrictor
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat