Dihada by frankbrk

Format: Commander

Commander: Dihada, Binder of Wills

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a Mardu Legendary Midrange strategy helmed by Dihada, Binder of Wills. The game plan revolves around leveraging Dihada's −3 loyalty ability to dig through the library, loading the hand with legendary creatures, artifacts, and lands while converting nonlegendary cards into Treasure tokens and graveyard fuel. The deck develops a resilient, synergistic board of legendary creatures that buff one another through cards like Arvad the Cursed, Day of Destiny, and Heroes' Podium, or grant keyword soup via Odric, Lunarch Marshal. High-impact asymmetric sorceries such as Urza's Ruinous Blast and Primevals' Glorious Rebirth provide decisive mid-game swings by clearing opposing nonlegendary boards or reanimating an entire army at once. The deck closes games through overwhelming combat damage across Turn 7 and Turn 8, utilizing Dihada's +2 ability to grant key attackers indestructible, vigilance, and lifelink to outrace opposing strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
  • 1 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
  • 1 Archangel Avacyn // Avacyn, the Purifier
  • 1 Arvad the Cursed
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Cadric, Soul Kindler
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Day of Destiny
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Dihada, Binder of Wills
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drana and Linvala
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Glóin, Dwarf Emissary
  • 1 Grim Return
  • 1 Hazoret's Monument
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Heroes' Podium
  • 1 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
  • 1 Kaya's Wrath
  • 1 Krenko, Baron of Tin Street
  • 1 Leonardo, Cutting Edge
  • 1 Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
  • 1 Merry, Esquire of Rohan
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Mirror of Galadriel
  • 1 Mobilized District
  • 1 Mortify
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Odric, Lunarch Marshal
  • 1 Oketra's Monument
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Primevals' Glorious Rebirth
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of the Chosen
  • 1 Syr Vondam, the Lucent
  • 1 Tajic, Blade of the Legion
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
  • 1 The Circle of Loyalty
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Peregrine Dynamo
  • 1 Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
  • 1 Tyrite Sanctum
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Urza's Ruinous Blast
  • 1 Verrak, Warped Sengir
  • 1 Wear // Tear
  • 1 Wrecking Ball Arm