New Untitled Deck by Reciprx

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Soul Steeper

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is commanded by Dina, Soul Steeper, piloting a focused Witherbloom aristocrats and lifegain-drain strategy. The primary game plan revolves around turning every increment of life gained into direct, non-combat life loss for each opponent. In the early turns, mana dorks and low-cost ramp accelerate Dina onto the battlefield alongside continuous lifegain triggers like Essence Warden, Creeping Bloodsucker, and Bogwater Lumaret. As the game transitions into the mid-game, the deck leverages Pest token generators such as Pest Infestation, Tend the Pests, and Beledros Witherbloom, converting creature deaths and board sacrifice into massive bursts of life drain via Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Marauding Blight-Priest. High-impact payoffs like Defiling Daemogoth, Polluted Bonds, and Exsanguinate accelerate table-wide elimination around Turn 8. While the deck boasts immense redundancy in its drain engines and recovers easily from removal, its heavy reliance on creature permanents and minimal counter-protection leaves it vulnerable to well-timed board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Researcher
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Aerialist
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Breathe Your Last
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Tempest
  • 1 Deathgreeter
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fog
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Infuse with Vitality
  • 1 Jaddi Offshoot
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lifegift
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Ochran Assassin
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Mascot
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Respite
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectrum Sentinel
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Withering Curse
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat