Dina drains Balls by user9198144

Format: Commander

Creator: user9198144

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Golgari Aristocrats engine piloted by Dina, Essence Brewer. The deck's primary strategy revolves around assembling recursive token generators such as Ophiomancer, Dreadhorde Invasion, and Tendershoot Dryad, pairing them with sacrifice outlets and death payoffs. Dina, Essence Brewer converts early sacrifices into card advantage and targeted buffs while offsetting life costs. As the game transitions into the midgame, wide boards are weaponized through Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest, Beledros Witherbloom, and drain anchors like Bastion of Remembrance, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Cauldron of Essence. High-velocity burst finishes are also accessible via Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord flinging oversized creatures such as Wall of Blood. While the deck features robust graveyard recursion and resilient card flow, it remains vulnerable to exile-based board wipes and lacks stack interaction to contest opposing fast combos.

Decklist (121 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birthing Ritual
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Case of the Stashed Skeleton
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Essenceknit Scholar
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feral Appetite
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Fiend Artisan
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gardenize
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
  • 1 Mausoleum Secrets
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pillage the Bog
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Rushed Rebirth
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Simulacrum Shaper
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zimone's Experiment
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat