Dina sht in kettle by phuriphat23

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari aristocrats and life-drain engine led by Dina, Essence Brewer. It accelerates in the opening turns using efficient mana dorks and land ramp to establish its commander and draw engines by Turn 4. The deck converts creature deaths and life changes into steady card advantage, board control, and burst mana. Rather than grinding indefinitely, it transitions into explosive finishes around Turn 5 using high-power sacrifice lines. Cards like Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord pair with disproportionately large creatures such as Wall of Blood and Yargle and Multani to drain the entire table in a single action. Alternatively, Tend the Pests swarms the board with Pest tokens to trigger mass drain through Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, or Cauldron of Essence. Strong permanent removal and efficient graveyard recursion ensure the deck remains resilient across multiplayer games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yargle and Multani
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat