4.15 - Sin by PeanutsOfAwe

Format: Commander

Commander: Sin, Spira's Punishment

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Sultai midrange reanimator deck helmed by Sin, Spira's Punishment. The game plan revolves around filling the graveyard in the opening turns with self-mill and looting cards like Cemetery Tampering, Organ Hoarder, and Frantic Search, while ramping up to seven mana. Once Sin enters the battlefield, it immediately triggers to exile a random permanent from the graveyard and create a token copy, repeating if a land is hit. On subsequent turns, Sin attacks to duplicate additional large threats such as Elder Brain, Zodiark, Umbral God, or Rot Hulk. Because the deck operates at a deliberate battlecruiser tempo without infinite combos or fast mana rocks, it relies on value accumulation and multi-turn combat pressure to grind down opponents. Its main limitations stem from high mana demands and vulnerability to graveyard exile and sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Bhaal // Bone Offering
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armored Scrapgorger
  • 1 Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bleed Dry
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cemetery Tampering
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crawling Infestation
  • 1 Criminal Past
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Elder Brain
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Goobbue Gardener
  • 1 Gorex, the Tombshell
  • 1 Graveshifter
  • 1 Hard Evidence
  • 1 Heartless Act
  • 1 Illegitimate Business
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lotleth Giant
  • 1 Magic Pot
  • 1 Malboro
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Organ Hoarder
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Pym Technologies
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Repository Skaab
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Restless Vinestalk
  • 1 Roiling Regrowth
  • 1 Rot Hulk
  • 1 Scholar of the Ages
  • 1 Scion of Halaster
  • 1 Seedguide Ash
  • 1 Shambling Cie'th
  • 1 Shipwreck Dowser
  • 1 Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card
  • 1 Sin, Spira's Punishment
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 1 Slithermuse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Subterranean Cavern
  • 1 Summon: Anima
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Weatherseed Treaty
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Unbury
  • 1 Underwater Tunnel // Slimy Aquarium
  • 1 Underworld Hermit
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vanille, Cheerful l'Cie
  • 1 Vat of Rebirth
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 World Map
  • 1 Yavimaya Granger
  • 1 You Find the Villains' Lair
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God
  • 1 Zombify