ONE SHOT LIFE GAIN by Hadessensei

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Dina, Essence Brewer helms a Golgari 'power matters' sacrifice deck. It ramps cheaply, plays large or heavily counters-boosted creatures, then converts power into cards (Greater Good, Life's Legacy, The Gitrog) and life (Dina's activated ability, Vaultborn Tyrant) while Vito/Enduring Tenacity drain opponents. The main finishing loop is Jarad flinging a Skullspore Nexus-doubled Wall of Blood; God-Eternal Rhonas, Ghalta, Blossoming Bogbeast, and an aggressive Gitrog mount line serve as secondary wins. The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride acts as a hidden commander, turning a single huge tapped creature into a draw-and-land-drop burst. Dina is both an engine and a drain enabler, but the deck can transition to Jarad/value lines without casting her.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass
  • 1 Arwen, Weaver of Hope
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Baloth Prime
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Bebop & Rocksteady
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Benefactor's Draught
  • 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bygone Colossus
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 God-Eternal Rhonas
  • 1 Great Oak Guardian
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heronblade Elite
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Kalakscion, Hunger Tyrant
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Life's Legacy
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Soulgorger
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Rot-Curse Rakshasa
  • 1 Runadi, Behemoth Caller
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Season of Gathering
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Slumbering Trudge
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Warden of the Grove
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
  • 1 Yargle and Multani