Pesty Pests by user2110050

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

An aristocrats/graveyard value deck built around sacrifice and lifegain. Dina, Essence Brewer is the draw-and-counter engine; Dina, Soul Steeper is the hidden commander that converts the deck's constant lifegain into direct damage. Token producers create a stream of Pests, Spawns, Snakes, and Saprolings. Sacrifice outlets turn those bodies into cards, life, +1/+1 counters, and death triggers from Blood Artist/Cauldron of Essence. Secondary wins come from Defiling Daemogoth end-step drain, a Culling Ritual burst into Exsanguinate, or a Blossoming Bogbeast attack. The deck is resilient but slow: it wins by incremental advantage and a large one-turn sacrifice burst rather than a compact combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Awakening Zone
• 1 Beledros Witherbloom
• 1 Blight Mound
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Casualties of War
• 1 Cauldron of Essence
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corpsejack Menace
• 1 Culling Ritual
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Deadly Brew
• 1 Defiling Daemogoth
• 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
• 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
• 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
• 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Feral Appetite
• 1 Festering Thicket
• 1 Final Act
• 7 Forest
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Gorma, the Gullet
• 1 Grim Backwoods
• 1 Gyome, Master Chef
• 1 Haunted Mire
• 1 Haywire Mite
• 1 High Market
• 1 Immoral Bargain
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1 Merchant of Venom
• 1 Moldervine Reclamation
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mortality Spear
• 1 Mycoloth
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Nether Traitor
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Ohran Frostfang
• 1 Ominous Harvest
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pest Infestation
• 1 Pest Mascot
• 1 Pest Rescuer
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1 Ribtruss Roaster
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Springbloom Druid
• 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
• 1 Study Hall
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Teacher's Pest
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Tendershoot Dryad
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Titan's Grave
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Trudge Garden
• 1 Turbulent Fen
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
• 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1 Veinwitch Coven
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Viridescent Bog
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Wight of the Reliquary
• 1 Witch of the Moors
• 1 Witherbloom Campus
• 1 Witherbloom Charm
• 1 Witherbloom Command
• 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
• 1 Woe Strider
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan