Dina by SimiSensei

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Golgari aristocrats midrange deck helmed by Dina, Essence Brewer. The core plan generates a critical mass of Pest, Saproling, Spawn, and Zombie tokens, then repeatedly sacrifices them to fuel card advantage, life gain, and table-wide drains. Dina, Essence Brewer acts as a once-per-turn sac-draw engine and a flexible life-gain/+1/+1-counter outlet that turns fodder into board presence. Secondary engines include Dina, Soul Steeper and Professor Dellian Fel converting life gain into damage, plus classic death-trigger payoffs like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Mirkwood Bats, and Syr Konrad, the Grim. The deck wins through attrition drains, go-wide combat (amplified by Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest or Tendershoot Dryad), or a large Exsanguinate/Jumbo Cactuar finish. It plays a grindy value game that rewards careful sequencing of sac outlets and recursion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creakwood Liege
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat