Winter Hugs by TnTarty

Format: Commander

Commander: Winter, Misanthropic Guide

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This Jund deck is commanded by Winter, Misanthropic Guide, using forced card draw, maximum hand size reduction, and punishing discard triggers to control the game. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with green dorks and land ramp while stocking the graveyard with varied card types to activate Delirium. Once Winter is in play, opponents are forced to draw extra cards on upkeep but cannot keep them due to shrunken hand sizes. The deck converts this dynamic into lethal damage using punishers like Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Fate Unraveler, and Liliana's Caress paired with mass wheel spells like Wheel of Fortune and Dark Deal. Opponents are systematically stripped of interaction, and Waste Not generates an overwhelming surplus of mana and tokens. The deck closes games around Turn 7 via burst wheel damage, recurring draw burn, and wide creature attacks.

Decklist (101 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bandit's Talent
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Drag to the Roots
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gixian Puppeteer
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Invasion of Ergamon // Truga Cliffcharger
  • 1 Invasion of Zendikar // Awakened Skyclave
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Liliana, Waker of the Dead
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Molten Psyche
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Osseous Sticktwister
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Road of Return
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tinybones, Trinket Thief
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Wheel of Fate
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Winter, Misanthropic Guide
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wrenn and Six
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
  • 1 Zurzoth, Chaos Rider