Winter by snake0102

Format: Commander

Commander: Winter, Cynical Opportunist

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is commanded by Winter, Cynical Opportunist and focuses on self-mill, delirium enablement, and recurring massive permanent threats. The early game establishes delirium by filling the graveyard with diverse permanent and spell types using cards like Grisly Salvage, Cache Grab, and artifact lands. On Turn 4, casting Winter triggers an immediate end-step reanimation of a high-impact bomb such as Cityscape Leveler, Akroma's Memorial, or Summon: Bahamut. Over subsequent turns, the deck compounds board advantage by attacking with Winter to mill additional cards while reanimating another threat each end step. Victory is achieved around Turn 7 through overwhelming trampling combat damage buffed by Pathbreaker Ibex or Demolisher Spawn, supplemented by life drain from Syr Konrad, the Grim and Wound Reflection. Alternate reanimators like Animate Dead and Shifting Woodland ensure resilience even when Winter is removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
  • 1 Angel of Suffering
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arid Archway
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Cache Grab
  • 1 Cityscape Leveler
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Convert to Slime
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Darkmoss Bridge
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deadly Tempest
  • 1 Demolisher Spawn
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Drag to the Roots
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Grave Betrayal
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Guildless Commons
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Invasion of Fiora // Marchesa, Resolute Monarch
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malevolent Rumble
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Mulch
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Necron Deathmark
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Old Rutstein
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Out of the Tombs
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
  • 1 Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette
  • 1 Rampant Frogantua
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squirming Emergence
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The World Spell
  • 1 Thief of Blood
  • 1 Town Greeter
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Treefolk Umbra
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Ursine Monstrosity
  • 1 Valgavoth's Lair
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vile Mutilator
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Winding Way
  • 1 Winter, Cynical Opportunist
  • 1 Wondrous Crucible
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Yavimaya Hollow
  • 1 You Look Upon the Tarrasque
  • 1 Zendikar Resurgent