Winter: milling shenanigans by user1695420

Format: Commander

Creator: user1695420

Commander: Winter, Cynical Opportunist

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is commanded by Winter, Cynical Opportunist, functioning as a delirium-driven graveyard reanimator. The strategy revolves around loading the graveyard with diverse card types during the early turns using self-mill cards like Stitcher's Supplier, Grisly Salvage, and Satyr Wayfinder. Once delirium is online, Winter enters the battlefield on turn 4 to exile cards and reanimate heavyweight targets directly into play on the end step. Key payoffs include Demolisher Spawn, Giant Adephage, Hornet Queen, and Beledros Witherbloom, which quickly establish dominant board states. The deck converts card advantage into lethal attacks using Tyvar, the Pummeler or Spider Spawning. While highly resilient against standard removal due to recursion engines, the list is vulnerable to targeted graveyard exile and sweeper spells.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Akawalli, the Seething Tower
  • 1 Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Binding the Old Gods
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Broodspinner
  • 1 Cemetery Tampering
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crawling Sensation
  • 1 Cynical Loner
  • 1 Darkmoss Bridge
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deadbridge Chant
  • 1 Deathcap Cultivator
  • 1 Deathreap Ritual
  • 1 Demolisher Spawn
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Drag to the Roots
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Glowspore Shaman
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Grim Flayer
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Ishkanah, Grafwidow
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Moldgraf Monstrosity
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Mulch
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Old Stickfingers
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Shadowgrange Archfiend
  • 1 Skyfisher Spider
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spider Spawning
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Eldest Reborn
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Undergrowth Scavenger
  • 1 Valgavoth's Lair
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vraska, Golgari Queen
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Winter, Cynical Opportunist
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wrenn and Seven
  • 1 Zephyr Boots