Dihada & Kaalia Against the World by Pearfect

Format: Commander

Commander: Dihada, Binder of Wills

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Mardu "legendary permanents" midrange deck built around Dihada, Binder of Wills. Dihada is the card-advantage engine: her -3 digs four cards deep, puts legendary cards into hand, fills the graveyard with reanimation targets, and turns those milled cards into Treasures. From there the deck plays a reanimator/combat game with evasive Angels, Demons, and Dragons, using Kaalia of the Vast to cheat threats into combat, Aurelia, the Warleader to add combats, and Gisela, Blade of Goldnight or Terror of Mount Velus to multiply damage. Primevals' Glorious Rebirth and Shilgengar, Sire of Famine are mass-rebuild buttons. There are no deterministic infinite combos; instead the deck wins through overwhelming combat and recursion loops such as Kokusho, the Evening Star with reanimation. Liliana's Contract is a real alternate win if enough differently named Demons assemble.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Akroma, Vision of Ixidor
• 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
• 1 Angelic Intervention
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archangel Avacyn // Avacyn, the Purifier
• 1 Archangel of Tithes
• 1 Aurelia, the Warleader
• 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1 Basandra, Battle Seraph
• 1 Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant
• 1 Bleeding Effect
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Boros Charm
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Cleric Class
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crystal Barricade
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deification
• 1 Despark
• 1 Dihada, Binder of Wills
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1 Drana and Linvala
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Giada, Font of Hope
• 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jet Medallion
• 1 Kaalia of the Vast
• 1 Kaalia, Zenith Seeker
• 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1 Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Liliana's Contract
• 1 Mines of Moria
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Odric, Lunarch Marshal
• 1 Pearl Medallion
• 14 Plains
• 1 Plaza of Heroes
• 1 Primevals' Glorious Rebirth
• 1 Quicksilver Amulet
• 1 Rakdos Joins Up
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Reya Dawnbringer
• 1 Rings of Brighthearth
• 1 Rodolf Duskbringer
• 1 Ruby Medallion
• 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1 Savai Triome
• 1 Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge
• 1 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Terror of Mount Velus
• 1 The Book of Exalted Deeds
• 1 The Fire Crystal
• 1 The Grey Havens
• 1 The Peregrine Dynamo
• 1 The Wind Crystal
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
• 1 Tomb Fortress
• 1 Twilight Shepherd
• 1 Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber
• 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
• 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Yawgmoth's Vile Offering