Winter by user2037101

Format: Commander

Commander: Winter, Misanthropic Guide

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

Winter, Misanthropic Guide leads a high-power Jund wheel and delirium attrition strategy designed to drain opponents rapidly while systematically dismantling their hand sizes. The deck accelerates in the opening turns via efficient ramp and mana fixing to deploy Winter by Turn 3. Delirium is quickly achieved through fetchlands, self-mill, and multi-type spells, setting opponents' maximum hand sizes to a fraction of normal. The primary win condition combines symmetric draw and wheel effects—such as Wheel of Fortune, Dark Deal, Memory Jar, and Teferi's Puzzle Box—with punishing damage multipliers like Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Underworld Dreams, and Fate Unraveler. Simultaneously, discard engines like Waste Not and Tergrid, God of Fright turn forced discards into overwhelming board presence and mana. With dense redundancy, deep card velocity, and potent Jund removal, the deck establishes an oppressive resource clamp on Turn 5 and eliminates the table by Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dragonfire Blade
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Eldritch Immunity
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Geth's Grimoire
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Invasion of Karsus // Refraction Elemental
  • 1 Invasion of Mercadia // Kyren Flamewright
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Library of Leng
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lignify
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Marwyn, the Preserver
  • 1 Memory Jar
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Molten Psyche
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Naktamun Lorespinner // Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Nameless Inversion
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Primal Witchstalker
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tarmogoyf Nest
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vicious Rivalry
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Winter, Misanthropic Guide
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wrenn and Six
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
  • 1 Zurzoth, Chaos Rider