winter from aespa by user8047801

Format: Commander

Commander: Winter, Misanthropic Guide

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a Jund Delirium and Discard Attrition deck helmed by Winter, Misanthropic Guide. The strategy revolves around quickly stocking the graveyard with diverse card types to activate Winter's Delirium ability, which slashes opponents' maximum hand sizes down to one to three cards. At the same time, Winter forces all players to draw two extra cards on your upkeep, feeding your hand while forcing opponents to discard excess cards during their cleanup steps. The deck converts these forced discards and draws into overwhelming board and life advantages through punishers like Waste Not, Megrim, Underworld Dreams, Oppression, and Tergrid, God of Fright. Discard triggers also power board-clearing effects like Archfiend of Ifnir and fuel massive attackers like Necrogoyf. As a backup win condition, the list runs the compact Dualcaster Mage and Twinflame infinite combo to eliminate the table in a single turn. While vulnerable to graveyard hate and lacking stack counterspells, the deck exerts suffocating hand control and steady life drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Analyze the Pollen
  • 1 Angrath, the Flame-Chained
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cool but Rude
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Dawnhand Dissident
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Entropic Battlecruiser
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghost Vacuum
  • 1 Glowspore Shaman
  • 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Hugs, Grisly Guardian
  • 1 Hymn to Tourach
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
  • 1 Invasion of Eldraine // Prickle Faeries
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
  • 1 Maelstrom Pulse
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Midnight Tilling
  • 1 Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necrogoyf
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Once Upon a Time
  • 1 Oppression
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Say Its Name
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Spider Manifestation
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Stinkweed Imp
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Tinybones Joins Up
  • 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Twisted Landscape
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Vastlands Scavenger // Bind to Life
  • 1 Villainous Wrath
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Winter, Misanthropic Guide