Dina EB by waimbes

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This Golgari Aristocrats deck leverages Dina, Essence Brewer alongside redundant sacrifice outlets, recursive creatures, and life-drain payoffs to grind down opponents. The primary strategy establishes low-cost sacrifice loops with cards like Gravecrawler, Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia, and Reassembling Skeleton, converting creature deaths into card advantage and steady life loss via Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Bastion of Remembrance. The mana curve is low and consistent, supported by efficient land ramp and creature acceleration. Mid-game engines like Yawgmoth, Thran Physician and Savra, Queen of the Golgari suppress opposing boards through repeated creature attrition. The deck transitions into a lethal threat around Turn 6 with multipliers such as Mirkwood Bats, Bloodletter of Aclazotz, or Beledros Witherbloom, closing out games on Turn 7. While vulnerable to mass graveyard exile and lacking stack countermagic, its high internal redundancy and graveyard recursion make it exceptionally resilient to single-target removal and board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Essence Pulse
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Final Act
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nested Shambler
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat