Dina Ball sucker by DiddyKong88

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This Golgari deck utilizes Dina, Essence Brewer at the helm to convert sacrifice triggers into steady card advantage, life gain, and board growth. The deck accelerates through early mana dorks, rituals, and sacrifice-based mana engines like Warren Soultrader and Phyrexian Altar to assemble a commanding aristocrat board by Turn 4. Its primary path to victory is executing deterministic two-card life-drain loops using Exquisite Blood or Bloodthirsty Conqueror paired with Sanguine Bond, Enduring Tenacity, or Dina, Soul Steeper. A single life gain trigger immediately creates an infinite chain reaction that drains all three opponents to zero life on the spot. Defensively, the deck controls creature-heavy boards with Grave Pact, Savra, Queen of the Golgari, and Toxic Deluge, while leveraging powerful graveyard recursion like Reanimate and Victimize to rebuild in a single turn cycle.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creakwood Liege
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat