drain :) by user7268766

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Soul Steeper

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Golgari Landfall-drain deck built around a single, brutal engine: **Dina, Soul Steeper**. The strategy is to gain a little life every single turn, turn that life into an automatic tax on every opponent via Dina's triggered ability, and use life-gain synergies (Witherbloom Apprentice, Blossoming Bogbeast, Tablets of the Guilds) to out-value and out-last three opponents. It is not a combo deck that wins from nothing - it's a "value-health-attrition deck" that converts the most primitive resource in commander (life) into a card-advantage machine. The deck drags games into the mid-late turns, then wins by overwhelming card advantage once Dina, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, or a huge Tor Giant kills everyone.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Craving
  • 1 Bake into a Pie
  • 1 Basilica Screecher
  • 1 Binding the Old Gods
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
  • 1 Bushmeat Poacher
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Daemogoth Woe-Eater
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Deathreap Ritual
  • 1 Deathsprout
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Druid Class
  • 1 Environmental Sciences
  • 1 Epicure of Blood
  • 1 Essence Pulse
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Ezzaroot Channeler
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Filigree Familiar
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Fortifying Draught
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grazing Gladehart
  • 1 Greed
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Healing Technique
  • 1 Ill-Gotten Inheritance
  • 1 Infuse with Vitality
  • 1 Jaddi Offshoot
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kazandu Nectarpot
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Paradise Plume
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Pulse of Murasa
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Reckoner's Bargain
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Retreat to Hagra
  • 1 Retreat to Kazandu
  • 1 Return to Action
  • 1 Roiling Regrowth
  • 1 Sanguine Indulgence
  • 1 Sapseep Forest
  • 1 Scale the Heights
  • 1 Scavenging Ooze
  • 1 Seraph Sanctuary
  • 1 Severed Strands
  • 1 Silversmote Ghoul
  • 1 Sproutback Trudge
  • 1 Sun Droplet
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Tablet of the Guilds
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Thrull Parasite
  • 1 Trespasser's Curse
  • 1 Vampire Neonate
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Weather the Storm
  • 1 Willowdusk, Essence Seer
  • 1 Witch's Cauldron
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Witherbloom Pledgemage