upgrade precon by user8938812

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Under Dina, Essence Brewer, this is a Golgari aristocrats deck built on the Pest/sacrifice axis: it floods the board with small tokens, feeds them to sacrifice outlets, and converts every death into life, cards, Treasures, and table-wide drain. The commander acts as both a repeatable draw engine and a burst pump, able to turn one large sacrificed creature into a towering threat. The primary path to victory is the Ashnod's Altar + Nether Traitor + Pawn of Ulamog/Sifter of Skulls loop with a Blood Artist-class payoff, backed by heavy token generation from Chatterfang, Squirrel General, Tendershoot Dryad, Beledros Witherbloom, and Ghoulcaller Gisa. Secondary wins come from incremental aristocrats drain, Defiling Daemogoth life-loss pressure, and an overrun-style combat finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creakwood Liege
  • 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 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Final Act
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Gyome, Master Chef
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 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 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Abomination
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trudge Garden
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Witherbloom Campus
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Witherbloom Command
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat