Dina, Witherbloom Pestillence by user9073381

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Golgari aristocrats and lifegain midrange strategy led by Dina, Essence Brewer. The deck's primary plan revolves around assembling a steady engine of recurring creature tokens through cards like Ophiomancer, Bitterbloom Bearer, and Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia, then sacrificing those creatures to feed Dina's card draw and stat-boosting abilities. As the game transitions into the midgame, the deck establishes lethal table-wide drain using payoffs such as Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Mirkwood Bats. Massive board swings are facilitated by heavy hitters like Beledros Witherbloom, Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest, and Defiling Daemogoth, turning sacrifice triggers into overwhelming combat power and unavoidable life loss. Strong mass-removal tools like Culling Ritual and Toxic Deluge clear opposing boards while keeping the deck's engine fueled, leading to a consistent finish around Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Casualties of War
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creakwood Liege
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Final Act
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 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 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
  • 1 Smothering Abomination
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viridian Joiner
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Warden of the Grove
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Witherbloom Campus
  • 1 Witherbloom Command
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat