Dina, Essence Brewer by Jicnon

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This Golgari sacrifice-lifegain deck helmed by Dina, Essence Brewer is a midrange value engine that converts creature deaths into card advantage, life gain, and incremental drain. The primary plan is to establish a steady stream of token creatures (Pests, Saprolings, Zombies) and sacrifice outlets, then bleed opponents out with Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Dina, Soul Steeper, and Enduring Tenacity. Combat finishers like Ghalta, Primal Hunger and Sproutback Trudge provide a secondary path. The deck lacks fast combos, relying on grinding value over many turns to outlast three opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anticausal Vestige
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creakwood Liege
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Daemogoth Woe-Eater
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Merchant of Venom
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Rampant Rejuvenator
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Rot-Curse Rakshasa
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Sproutback Trudge
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat