testing current by Ryu1er

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Golgari Aristocrats strategy helmed by Dina, Essence Brewer. The deck focuses on assembling efficient engine loops by combining disposable token generators, free sacrifice outlets, and life-drain payoffs. Dina operates from the command zone as a low-cost card-advantage engine, drawing cards as creatures die to dig rapidly into game-ending pieces. Rather than relying solely on incremental combat damage, the deck leverages compact infinite loops to finish the game. Its primary win condition pairs Warren Soultrader with Chatterfang, Squirrel General and a drain payoff like Blood Artist, generating infinite Treasures and draining the table in a single turn. It also features the classic two-card combo of Dina, Soul Steeper and Exquisite Blood. Supported by heavy early ramp, potent creature tutors, and asymmetric edicts like Dictate of Erebos, the list transitions smoothly from value attrition to decisive same-turn table kills around Turn 5.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Beifong's Bounty Hunters
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Essenceknit Scholar
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Follow the Lumarets
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Khalni Garden
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Abomination
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat