Winter is Coming! by user6425099

Format: Commander

Commander: Winter, Cynical Opportunist

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This Golgari deck utilizes Winter, Cynical Opportunist as a Delirium-driven reanimation engine alongside a compact, game-ending Magecraft combo. The deck aims to fill the graveyard rapidly using efficient self-mill engines like Hermit Druid, Stitcher's Supplier, and Grisly Salvage while accelerating mana with cheap dorks and rocks. Once Delirium is established across four distinct card types, Winter repeatedly reanimates key permanents on the end step. Clever synergy pieces such as Power Conduit, Nesting Grounds, and Fain, the Broker remove finality counters, allowing reanimated threats to persist indefinitely. The primary win condition is the two-card infinite combo of Witherbloom Apprentice and Chain of Smog, which drains the entire table in a single turn. Backed by explosive spells like Breach the Multiverse, Massacre Wurm, and Culling Ritual, the deck shifts effortlessly between high-impact midrange graveyard control and instant-speed lethality.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Darkmoss Bridge
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drag to the Roots
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Manglehorn
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette
  • 1 Power Conduit
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Valgavoth's Lair
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Winter, Cynical Opportunist
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Witherbloom Command
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery