Dina Da Liberal by rnope909

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is an Aristocrats and Lifegain Attrition strategy commanded by Dina, Essence Brewer. The game plan revolves around generating a continuous stream of expendable creature tokens using engines like Ophiomancer, Awakening Zone, Blight Mound, and Tendershoot Dryad. Dina turns these sacrifices into steady card advantage, while aristocrat payoffs such as Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Cauldron of Essence continuously drain opposing life totals. Asymmetric stax and edict pieces like Braids, Cabal Minion, Savra, Queen of the Golgari, and Witch of the Moors suppress opposing creature development by forcing recurring sacrifices that this deck easily sustains. The deck can close games through sustained life drain, massive token overruns powered by Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest, or an explosive combo finish with Witherbloom Apprentice and Chain of Smog. Its primary strengths are broad engine redundancy and board control, though it remains vulnerable to exile-based board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Blowfly Infestation
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gyome, Master Chef
  • 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heritage Reclamation
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nest of Scarabs
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Paradise Druid
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Pick Your Poison
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sapling Nursery
  • 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
  • 1 Skycoach Waypoint
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vraska the Unseen
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat