Winter by user6474382

Format: Commander

Commander: Winter, Tormented Loner

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

Winter, Tormented Loner commands a mono-black graveyard and aristocrats deck focused on rapid self-mill, asymmetric creature control, and explosive mass reanimation. The deck builds its engine by filling the graveyard with tools like Mesmeric Orb, Stitcher's Supplier, and Ripples of Undeath. It leverages edict effects from Winter, Tormented Loner, Grave Pact, and Braids, Arisen Nightmare to systematically dismantle opposing boards while generating value from dying permanents. Burst acceleration from Songs of the Damned, Cabal Ritual, and Crypt of Agadeem fuels expensive game-ending plays. The deck achieves victory through decisive combo-like finishes, such as resolving Morality Shift with Syr Konrad, the Grim on the battlefield or casting Living Death to return an overwhelming army of drain creatures like Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Massacre Wurm. While weak to graveyard exile and lacking artifact or enchantment removal, the deck's extreme redundancy in reanimation allows it to recover swiftly and close games in single explosive turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Activated Sleeper
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Angel of Suffering
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Balthor the Defiled
  • 1 Blight Titan
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cemetery Tampering
  • 1 Criminal Past
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dread Presence
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Filth
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hollow Marauder
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Morality Shift
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Out of the Tombs
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 34 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Terror Tide
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Winter, Tormented Loner
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat