Dina by Duda27

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Dina, Essence Brewer pilots a Golgari attrition deck that blends aristocrats, token generation, lifegain, and +1/+1 counter synergies. The core loop is simple: make small bodies such as Pests, Saprolings, Worms, and Eldrazi Spawn, sacrifice them for value, and convert every death and point of life gained into cards, counters, or damage. The commander is both a draw engine-drawing once per turn whenever a creature is sacrificed-and a burst payoff, sacrificing a large creature to gain life and pump any target. The 99's hidden engine is the second Dina, Dina, Soul Steeper, alongside Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, South Wind Avatar, and Defiling Daemogoth to turn lifegain into table-wide drain. There are no infinite combos; the deck wins through attrition, accelerated by Culling Ritual, Gaea's Cradle, and the trample-pump of Blossoming Bogbeast.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Comforting Counsel
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creakwood Liege
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Efflorescence
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feral Appetite
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 For the Common Good
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Feast
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hollowmurk Siege
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Pact of the Serpent
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Mascot
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Light and Shadow
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vicious Rivalry
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Witherbloom Command
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wrecking Ball Arm
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat