Dina 3 by Kevbottron

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Golgari Aristocrats and life-drain engine led by Dina, Essence Brewer. The primary game plan revolves around generating cheap, expendable creature tokens using engines like Ophiomancer, Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia, and Sedgemoor Witch, then converting those bodies into continuous card advantage and life gain through Dina. As the board develops, redundant drain payoffs like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance, and Mirkwood Bats turn every death trigger and Treasure creation into asymmetric life loss for opponents. Interactive spells such as Assassin's Trophy, Culling Ritual, and Toxic Deluge keep opposing threats in check while fueling your own mana and graveyard synergies. The deck achieves critical onset around Turn 6 and steadily drains the table to zero by Turn 8, demonstrating strong resilience through graveyard recursion and redundant sacrifice engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Awakening Zone
• 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Beledros Witherbloom
• 1 Blight Mound
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Case of the Stashed Skeleton
• 1 Chthonian Nightmare
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Culling Ritual
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Deadly Brew
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
• 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
• 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
• 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Enduring Tenacity
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Festering Thicket
• 7 Forest
• 1 Haywire Mite
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 High Market
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Marionette Apprentice
• 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Moldervine Reclamation
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mortality Spear
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Nether Traitor
• 1 Nurturing Peatland
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pawn of Ulamog
• 1 Pest Infestation
• 1 Pest Rescuer
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1 Professor Dellian Fel
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
• 1 Sedgemoor Witch
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Tendershoot Dryad
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Turbulent Fen
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Viridescent Bog
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Warren Soultrader
• 1 Wight of the Reliquary
• 1 Witch of the Moors
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat