Dina, Life Gain-Drain, Sac by Blaicute

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Golgari aristocrats engine led by Dina, Essence Brewer. It converts creature sacrifices into consistent card advantage, life gain, and steady drain. The primary plan ramps in the early turns using mana dorks and powerful lands like Gaea's Cradle and Cabal Coffers, building an army of disposable tokens through Ophiomancer, Sedgemoor Witch, and Tendershoot Dryad. Once assembled, the deck locks down opposing creature boards using asymmetric sacrifice enchantments like Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos. It finishes games decisively using the infinite combo of Chatterfang, Squirrel General and Pitiless Plunderer, producing infinite mana and death triggers to drain out the table through Blood Artist effects or a massive Torment of Hailfire. Backed by versatile Golgari removal, resilient recursion, and key protection spells, the deck generates compounding value while maintaining strong recovery potential.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Compy Swarm
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Deserted Temple
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Germination Practicum
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Pox Plague
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat