New dina by user5152296

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari Aristocrats engine led by Dina, Essence Brewer, focusing on life gain, creature sacrifice, and incremental card advantage. The strategy curves early ramp into Dina and reliable token generators like Ophiomancer, Pest Rescuer, and Blight Mound. By sacrificing disposable creature tokens each turn cycle, Dina generates steady card draw and counters while payoffs like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Cauldron of Essence drain opponents' life totals. In the mid-game, the deck applies severe asymmetric pressure using Braids, Cabal Minion and Savra, Queen of the Golgari to strip opposing resources. It closes the game on Turn 8 through wide, buffed combat damage from Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest or Tendershoot Dryad, backed by a compact instant-win combo of Witherbloom Apprentice and Chain of Smog. Versatile removal spells handle opposing threats while redundant recursion ensures steady engine longevity.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Blowfly Infestation
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grow from the Ashes
  • 1 Gyome, Master Chef
  • 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heritage Reclamation
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nest of Scarabs
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Paradise Druid
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Pick Your Poison
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sapling Nursery
  • 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
  • 1 Skycoach Waypoint
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vraska the Unseen
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat