Yard Fart by sandyghost5

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ancient One

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Dimir graveyard reanimator deck commanded by The Ancient One. The strategy leverages early mana ramp, self-mill, and targeted entomb spells to stock the graveyard with high-impact creatures. Its primary win condition pairs The Master of Lake-town with death/mill trigger engines such as Syr Konrad, the Grim or Dreadhound. When an opponent takes damage or loses life, Master of Lake-town forces them to mill cards; whenever a creature card is milled, Konrad or Dreadhound triggers, dealing damage to all opponents and creating a rapid cascading chain reaction that burns and mills the entire table. The deck incorporates extensive reanimation redundancy, solid single-target interaction, and card-draw bursts like Disciple of Bolas sacrificing an 8/8 commander, enabling it to recover rapidly from board disruption while threatening explosive same-turn finishes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asmodeus the Archfiend
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Doomed Necromancer
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 14 Island
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
  • 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Mausoleum Secrets
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mizzium Skin
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Necrotic Ooze
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Obsessive Stitcher
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starving Revenant
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terror Tide
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Cauldron of Eternity
  • 1 The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
  • 1 Wail of the Forgotten
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Woe Strider