Winter v2 by Brayton

Format: Commander

Commander: Winter, Misanthropic Guide

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Jund Group Slug strategy commanded by Winter, Misanthropic Guide. The primary game plan accelerates out Winter alongside symmetrical draw engines like Howling Mine, Font of Mythos, and Temple Bell, transforming forced card draw into lethal burn via punishers like Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Underworld Dreams, Fate Unraveler, and Orcish Bowmasters. Once delirium is established, Winter systematically chokes opponents' maximum hand sizes down to 1-3 cards, forcing them to discard whatever they cannot immediately cast while the pilot maintains an uncapped hand with Reliquary Tower or Thought Vessel. Fast mana artifacts and dorks provide explosive early deployment, while Wheel of Fortune and Underworld Breach offer sudden burst-damage finishes. The deck also harbors a compact two-card infinite mill/drain combo in Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank, giving it a direct win condition if prolonged burn stalls.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Gnat Miser
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Horn of Greed
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Master of the Feast
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otherworld Atlas
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Scrapshooter
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Temple Bell
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Winter, Misanthropic Guide
  • 1 Worldly Tutor