Dina by user4872219

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

An aggressive Golgari aristocrats deck built around Dina, Essence Brewer. It makes Pest/Eldrazi tokens, sacrifices them to draw, drain, and ramp, and converts big bodies into life and counters. The primary kill is Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord-effectively the hidden commander-sacrificing a pumped Wall of Blood or boosted Ghalta/Jumbo Cactuar to drain all opponents. Secondary wins use Blood Artist/Bastion-style drain, Professor Dellian Fel's emblem, and Demon beaters. Meren, Cauldron of Essence, and Grave Researcher // Reanimate keep the sacrifice loop alive. Dina is not double-faced; the deck's transform cards, Growing Rites of Itlimoc and Grave Researcher // Reanimate, are support pieces for land acceleration and recursion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beifong's Bounty Hunters
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Daemogoth Titan
  • 1 Daemogoth Woe-Eater
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Essenceknit Scholar
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Final Act
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Germination Practicum
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vicious Rivalry
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Warden of the Grove
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery