Yard Fart by ronansting2

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ancient One

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This Dimir deck is built around The Ancient One, utilizing the commander's low mana cost, massive 8/8 body, and repeatable looting ability to fuel a dedicated reanimation and graveyard engine. The strategy accelerates in the early game with cheap mana rocks and self-mill enablers like Stitcher's Supplier and Thought Scour. Mid-game velocity is achieved through efficient tutors such as Buried Alive and Unmarked Grave, which deposit high-impact creatures including Asmodeus the Archfiend, Necrotic Ooze, and Gray Merchant of Asphodel directly into the graveyard. The deck then pivots to decisive board states using low-cost reanimation spells like Reanimate, Persist, and Victimize. A standout interaction involves Necrotic Ooze utilizing Asmodeus's activated card-draw ability without the downside of life loss or card exile, refilling the hand instantly. The game is closed through repeated life drain, asymmetric board sweeps from Massacre Wurm, and overwhelming combat pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asmodeus the Archfiend
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 14 Island
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
  • 1 Liliana the Repentant
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Mausoleum Secrets
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mizzium Skin
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Necrotic Ooze
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Obsessive Stitcher
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starving Revenant
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terror Tide
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Cauldron of Eternity
  • 1 The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
  • 1 Wail of the Forgotten
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Woe Strider