Araumi of the Dead Tide by ThriftedMystic

Format: Commander

Commander: Araumi of the Dead Tide

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Dimir Reanimator Combo deck commanded by Araumi of the Dead Tide. The primary strategy focuses on stocking the graveyard with powerful creatures and utility untappers through efficient self-mill and targeted tutors like Buried Alive and Entomb. Once Araumi is operational, she grants Encore to key creatures, generating three token copies that attack each opponent and trigger three simultaneous enter-the-battlefield and death abilities. The deck can quickly assemble game-ending chains using Corridor Monitor and Peregrine Drake to untap Araumi and lands, culminating in a lethal life drain burst from Gray Merchant of Asphodel or Kokusho, the Evening Star. In slower games, encoring Archon of Cruelty or Agent of Treachery completely dismantles opposing boards and hands through overwhelming asymmetric attrition. Backed by cheap countermagic, dedicated reanimation spells, and an infinite mill combo with Aphetto Alchemist and Mesmeric Orb, the deck applies relentless pressure across multiple resilient angles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aphetto Alchemist
  • 1 Araumi of the Dead Tide
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corridor Monitor
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fallaji Archaeologist
  • 1 Fatestitcher
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Floating-Dream Zubera
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Omen Hawker
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stillness in Motion
  • 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger
  • 1 Stinkweed Imp
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Teardrop Kami
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Vizier of Tumbling Sands
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Withering Torment