Dina, Essence Brewer (Copy) by PassTurnImTired

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Golgari aristocrats/lifegain combo deck helmed by Dina, Essence Brewer. The core plan is to sacrifice creatures for value, gain life, and convert every point of life gain into opponent life loss. The primary win condition is the infinite "lifegain = drain" loop: Exquisite Blood paired with any one of four redundant drain pieces - Sanguine Bond, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Enduring Tenacity, or Dina, Soul Steeper. Dina herself is the ideal loop-starter: her activated ability sacrifices a creature to gain life, which kicks off the chain. Secondary wins include aristocrats drain from Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Mirkwood Bats, plus Bolas's Citadel as a card-advantage engine and Exsanguinate/Essence Harvest as burst finishers. The deck plays as a midrange combo deck with heavy redundancy around a single, well-supported combo axis.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Awakening Zone
• 1 Bayou
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Beledros Witherbloom
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blight Mound
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Cauldron of Essence
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Defiling Daemogoth
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
• 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Enduring Tenacity
• 1 Essence Harvest
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Force of Vigor
• 10 Forest
• 1 Haywire Mite
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 High Market
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Moldervine Reclamation
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Pest Infestation
• 1 Pest Rescuer
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 16 Swamp
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 The Great Henge
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Veil of Summer
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Wall of Blood
• 1 Warren Soultrader
• 1 Wight of the Reliquary
• 1 Witherbloom Charm
• 1 Withering Boon
• 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Yawgmoth's Will
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat