Yard Fart by Afmoad

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ancient One

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Dimir graveyard deck uses The Ancient One as a repeatable loot and mill engine to enable descend 8, then wins through incremental drain and reanimated threats rather than a combo. You fill your graveyard with self-mill and tutors, unlock The Ancient One as an 8/8 and turn on payoffs like Starving Revenant, Syr Konrad and Dreadhound that drain opponents whenever you draw, mill or creatures die. Secondary paths reanimate large value creatures with Chainer, Cauldron of Eternity and Victimize, while Necrotic Ooze acts as a hidden commander copying graveyard abilities. The deck grinds, controls the board, and closes with Gray Merchant, Massacre Wurm or repeated Ancient One attacks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asmodeus the Archfiend
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Doomed Necromancer
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 14 Island
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
  • 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Mausoleum Secrets
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mizzium Skin
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Necrotic Ooze
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Obsessive Stitcher
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starving Revenant
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terror Tide
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Cauldron of Eternity
  • 1 The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
  • 1 Wail of the Forgotten
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Woe Strider