Dina’s good soup by user9430817

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 59

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is an aristocrats midrange engine built around Dina, Essence Brewer. It leverages cheap mana acceleration and resilient token engines to generate massive card draw and steady life drain across every turn cycle. The deck functions as an overlapping web of sacrifice outlets, recurring fodder, and life gain payoffs that naturally grind opponents down while searching for decisive combo finishes. Its primary victory route utilizes a compact two-card loop between Basking Broodscale and Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest, which generates infinite colorless mana, arbitrarily large creatures, and infinite death triggers to eliminate the table on Turn 5. Backed by explosive alternative lines through Bolas's Citadel, Razaketh, the Foulblooded, and Torment of Hailfire, the deck possesses immense strategic flexibility. Robust graveyard recursion like Victimize and Dread Return ensures that the deck recovers effortlessly from board wipes and targeted disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Aetherspark
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat