Dina Upgrade by user8428273

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 16

Deck overview

This deck uses Dina, Essence Brewer to turn sacrifices into card flow, then converts expendable creatures into mana, selection, life gain, counters, and opponent life loss. Its main operational shell is a sacrifice outlet such as Viscera Seer, a recurring token source such as Ophiomancer or Awakening Zone, and a death payoff such as Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat. The strongest board-control line adds Grave Pact, allowing each sacrificed token to remove an opposing creature. Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Reassembling Skeleton, and token producers help rebuild the engine. The deck also contains the powerful Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond combo, but it has no reliable way to assemble both enchantments on an ordinary early schedule. It is therefore a general midrange aristocrats deck: capable of strong attrition and occasional explosive turns, but vulnerable to removal, graveyard disruption, and noncreature strategies.

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 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creakwood Liege
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Abomination
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat