dina by user2728135

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Soul Steeper

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

Dina, Soul Steeper commands a Golgari lifegain and aristocrats deck that transforms life gain into steady, table-wide drain. The deck quickly establishes an early engine by pairing Dina with low-cost lifegain permanents like Fountain of Renewal, Tablet of the Guilds, and landfall triggers such as Druid Class and Jaddi Offshoot. As the board develops, Pest token generators including Sedgemoor Witch, Beledros Witherbloom, and Blight Mound create a disposable army that gains life upon dying, triggering Dina repeatedly. In the mid-to-late game, the deck pivots to decisive pressure through high-impact finishers like Blossoming Bogbeast, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, and damage amplifiers like Sanguine Bond and Enduring Tenacity. While the deck generates high synergy and consistent incremental drain, it relies on natural draws due to an absence of tutors and possesses minimal stack protection, leaving its board vulnerable to well-timed sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agate-Blade Assassin
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Researcher
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Aerialist
  • 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
  • 1 Comforting Counsel
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosmos Elixir
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Dark Bargain
  • 1 Defiant Bloodlord
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Deglamer
  • 1 Demon's Horn
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Dogged Pursuit
  • 1 Druid Class
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Feral Appetite
  • 16 Forest
  • 1 Fountain of Renewal
  • 1 Golem's Heart
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Heaped Harvest
  • 1 Hex
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Ill-Gotten Inheritance
  • 1 Jaddi Offshoot
  • 1 Kazandu Nectarpot
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Paradise Plume
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Mascot
  • 1 Pest Summoning
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Promise of Power
  • 1 Pulse of Murasa
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Retreat to Hagra
  • 1 Retreat to Kazandu
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Root Manipulation
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sanguine Syphoner
  • 1 Scavenging Ooze
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Seraph Sanctuary
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sinister Monolith
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Tablet of the Guilds
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 Trespasser's Curse
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Wurm's Tooth
  • 1 Zuran Orb