Winter Stax

Format: Commander

Commander: Winter, Misanthropic Guide

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 63

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Jund reanimator and resource-denial engine piloted by Winter, Misanthropic Guide. It leverages self-mill, selective discard, and low-cost reanimation to deploy towering threats ahead of curve. The commander accelerates your card flow by drawing two cards every upkeep while weaponizing delirium to constrict your opponents' maximum hand sizes down to one or two cards. Combined with symmetrical discard enchantments like Oppression and Bottomless Pit, opponents are forced into top-deck mode while you treat your graveyard as an expansive second hand using Six, Life from the Loam, and reanimation spells. The primary win condition bypasses traditional combat stalls: fill graveyards using Mesmeric Orb, Buried Alive, or Grisly Salvage, reanimate Lord of Extinction at massive power, and fling it to Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord to eliminate all three opponents in a single burst. Mass reanimation spells like Living Death and Rise of the Dark Realms offer devastating alternate paths to victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bitter Reunion
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bottomless Pit
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drag to the Roots
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of Extinction
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Noetic Scales
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Old Stickfingers
  • 1 Oppression
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stranglehold
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Winter, Misanthropic Guide
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground