Winter, discarding guide by user3415455

Format: Commander

Commander: Winter, Misanthropic Guide

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck leverages Winter, Misanthropic Guide to turn symmetric card draw into an asymmetric death trap. By rapidly stocking the graveyard with four or more distinct card types, the deck turns on delirium to shrink all opponents' maximum hand sizes down to 2 or 3 cards. As Winter forces each player to draw two extra cards each upkeep, opponents are caught between suffering direct burn from draw punishers like Underworld Dreams, Fate Unraveler, and Spiteful Visions, and enduring heavy discard penalties from Liliana's Caress and Megrim during cleanup. Strong Jund ramp and removal clear opposing boards while cards like Waste Not and Tinybones, Bauble Burglar generate immense mana and card advantage from opposing discards. The strategy finishes the entire table concurrently around turn 7 using amplified noncombat damage and wheel effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Deluge of Doom
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Drag to the Roots
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Megrim
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necrogoyf
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
  • 1 Osseous Sticktwister
  • 1 Patchwork Beastie
  • 1 Peer Past the Veil
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Rollercrusher Ride
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Traverse the Ulvenwald
  • 1 Twisted Landscape
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Winter, Cynical Opportunist
  • 1 Winter, Misanthropic Guide
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wrenn and Seven
  • 1 Zurzoth, Chaos Rider