Dina, Soul Steeper

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari)

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Creature (30)

• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Beledros Witherbloom
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodthirsty Aerialist
• 1x Blossoming Bogbeast
• 1x Cankerbloom
• 1x Deathgreeter
• 1x Epicure of Blood
• 1x Essence Warden
• 1x Ezzaroot Channeler
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Gala Greeters
• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Marauding Blight-Priest
• 1x Marshland Bloodcaster
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Prosperous Innkeeper
• 1x Razorlash Transmogrant
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Sedgemoor Witch
• 1x Shard of the Nightbringer
• 1x Valentin, Dean of the Vein  ^Flip
• 1x Veinwitch Coven
• 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1x Witch of the Moors
• 1x Witherbloom Apprentice
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (36)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 7x Forest
• 1x Gingerbread Cabin
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x High Market
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Necroblossom Snarl
• 1x Radiant Fountain
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Witch's Clinic
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Artifact (9)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (5)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Mortality Spear
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Village Rites

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Chain of Smog
• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Damnable Pact
• 1x Deadly Tempest
• 1x Essence Pulse
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Migration Path
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Shamanic Revelation

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x The Meathook Massacre
• 1x Trudge Garden

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar

Enchantment (1)

• 1x From Beyond

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An attempt at a lifesteal / drain deck WITHOUT using exquisite blood.

Combos

Chain of Smog + Witherbloom Apprentice

Cards
Chain of Smog + Witherbloom Apprentice

Requires
Chain of Smog in hand. Witherbloom Apprentice on the battlefield. {1}{B} available.

Steps

1. Cast Chain of Smog by paying {1}{B}, targeting yourself.
2. Witherbloom Apprentice triggers, causing each opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life.
3. Resolve Chain of Smog, discarding two cards and choosing to copy it, targeting yourself with the copy.
4. Repeat from step 2.

Results
Infinite lifegain. Infinite lifegain triggers. Infinite lifeloss. Infinite magecraft triggers.

Chain of Smog + Sedgemoor Witch

Cards
Chain of Smog + Sedgemoor Witch

Requires
Chain of Smog in hand. Sedgemoor Witch on the battlefield. {1}{B} available.

Steps

1. Cast Chain of Smog by paying {1}{B}, targeting yourself.
2. Sedgemoor Witch triggers, causing you to create a 1/1 Pest creature token.
3. Resolve Chain of Smog, discarding two cards and choosing to copy it, targeting yourself with the copy.
4. Repeat from step 2.

Results
Infinite creature tokens. Infinite ETB. Infinite magecraft triggers.

Ashnod's Altar + Trudge Garden + Zulaport Cutthroat

Cards
Ashnod's Altar + Trudge Garden + Zulaport Cutthroat

Requires
All permanents on the battlefield. You control at least one additional creature.

Steps

1. Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing a creature you control, adding {C}{C}.
2. Zulaport Cutthroat triggers, each opponent loses one life and gain you 1 life.
3. Trudge Garden triggers.
4. Pay {2} for the trigger, creating a Beast creature token.
5. Repeat.

Results
Infinite lifeloss. Infinite lifegain. Infinite ETB. Infinite LTB. Infinite lifegain triggers.

Ashnod's Altar + Trudge Garden + Blood Artist

Cards
Ashnod's Altar + Trudge Garden + Blood Artist

Requires
Chain of Smog in hand. Witherbloom Apprentice on the battlefield. 1B available.

Steps

1. Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing a creature you control, adding {C}{C}.
2. Blood Artist triggers, target player loses one life and gain you 1 life.
3. Trudge Garden triggers.
4. Pay {2} for the trigger, creating a Beast creature token.
5. Repeat.

Results
Infinite lifegain. Infinite lifegain triggers. Infinite lifeloss. Infinite magecraft triggers.

Ashnod's Altar + Trudge Garden + Essence Warden

Cards
Ashnod's Altar + Trudge Garden + Essence Warden

Requires
All permanents on the battlefield. You have a way to gain life. {2} available.

Steps

1. Gain any amount of life.
2. Trudge Garden triggers, causing you to pay {2} to create a 4/4 Fungus Beast creature token.
3. The Fungus Beast enters the battlefield, triggering Essence Warden.
4. Holding priority, activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing the Fungus Beast, adding {C}{C}.
5. Resolve the Essence Warden trigger, causing you to gain 1 life.
6. Repeat from step 2.

Results
Infinite ETB. Infinite LTB. Infinite death triggers. Infinite sacrifice triggers. Infinite lifegain. Infinite lifegain triggers.

Ashnod's Altar + Trudge Garden + Moldervine Reclamation

Cards
Ashnod's Altar + Trudge Garden + Moldervine Reclamation

Requires
All permanents on the battlefield. You control an additional creature.

Steps

1. Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing a creature, adding {C}{C}.
2. Moldervine Reclamation triggers, causing you to gain 1 life and draw a card.
3. Trudge Garden triggers, causing you to pay {2} to create a 4/4 Fungus Beast creature token.
4. Repeat.

Results
Infinite card draw. Infinite draw triggers. Near-infinite ETB. Near-infinite LTB. Near-infinite death triggers. Near-infinite sacrifice triggers. Near-infinite lifegain. Near-infinite lifegain triggers.

Ashnod's Altar + Trudge Garden + Bastion of Remembrance

Cards
Ashnod's Altar + Trudge Garden + Bastion of Remembrance

Requires
All permanents on the battlefield. You control an additional creature.

Steps

1. Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing a creature, adding {C}{C}.
2. Bastion of Remembrance triggers, each opponent loses one life and you gain 1 life.
3. Trudge Garden triggers, causing you to pay {2} to create a 4/4 Fungus Beast creature token.
4. Repeat.

Results
Infinite lifeloss. Infinite lifegain. Infinite ETB. Infinite LTB. Infinite lifegain triggers.

Ashnod's Altar + Trudge Garden + Falkenrath Noble

Cards
Ashnod's Altar + Trudge Garden + Falkenrath Noble

Requires
All permanents on the battlefield. You control an additional creature.

Steps

1. Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing a creature, adding {C}{C}.
2. Falkenrath Noble triggers, target player loses one life and you gain 1 life
3. Trudge Garden triggers, causing you to pay {2} to create a 4/4 Fungus Beast creature token.
4. Repeat.

Results
Infinite lifeloss. Infinite lifegain. Infinite ETB. Infinite LTB. Infinite lifegain triggers.

Ashnod's Altar + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Zulaport Cutthroat

Cards
Ashnod's Altar + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Zulaport Cutthroat

Requires
All permanents on the battlefield.

Steps

1. Sacrifice Reassembling Skeleton to Ashnod's Altar, generating {2}.
2. Pitiless Plunderer and Zulaport Cutthroat trigger.
3. Pitiless Plunderer generates a Treasure token; crack it to float {B}.
4. Zulaport Cutthroat drains each opponent for 1 life.
5. Activate Reassembling Skeleton for {1}{B}, returning it to the battlefield from the graveyard.
6. Repeat the sacrifice-recursion loop, floating {1} with each iteration and draining opponent infinitely with Zulaport Cutthroat triggers.

Results
Infinite ETB. Infinite death triggers. Infinite LTB. Infinite colorless mana. Infinite lifeloss. Infinite lifegain. Infinite lifegain triggers.

Ashnod's Altar + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Blood Artist

Cards
Ashnod's Altar + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Blood Artist

Requires
All permanents on the battlefield.

Steps

1. Sacrifice Reassembling Skeleton to Ashnod's Altar, generating {2}.
2. Pitiless Plunderer and Blood Artist trigger.
3. Pitiless Plunderer generates a Treasure token; crack it to float {B}.
4. Blood Artist drains target opponent for 1 life.
5. Activate Reassembling Skeleton for {1}{B}, returning it to the battlefield from the graveyard.
6. Repeat the sacrifice-recursion loop, floating {1} with each iteration and draining opponent infinitely with Blood Artist triggers.

Results
Infinite ETB. Infinite death triggers. Infinite LTB. Infinite colorless mana. Infinite lifeloss. Infinite lifegain. Infinite lifegain triggers.

CHANGELOG

CUT

• 1x Defiant Bloodlord
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Witherbloom Apprentice

ADD

• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 3x Swamp

10/25/22

• Swamp-> Field of Ruin
• Forest-> Dust Bowl

12/22/22 ($261)

• Sedgemoor Witch > Creeping Bloodsucker
• Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose > Haywire Mite
• Deadly Brew > Gala Greeters
• Bolas's Citadel > Social Climber
• Deathrite Shaman > Jaddi Offshoot

3/28/23 ($250)

CUT

• Woodland Chasm
• Sapseep Forest
• Fountain of Renewal
• Golgari Signet
• Tablet of the Guilds
• Well of Lost Dreams
• Cosmos Elixir
• Greed
• Lifegift
• Revenge of Ravens
• Jaddi Offshoot
• Sangromancer
• Social Climber
• Blight Mound
• Dust Bowl
• Venser's Journal
• Rampant Growth
• Epicure of Blood
• Tend the Pests
• Ashnod's Altar
• Infernal Grasp
• Pristine Talisman
• The Meathook Massacre
• Swamp x2
• Viscera Seer
• Creeping Bloodsucker

ADD

• Razorlash Transmogrant
• Awakening Zone
• Noxious Gearhulk
• Chain of Smog
• Reassembling Skeleton
• Shard of the Nightbringer
• Witherbloom Apprentice
• Exsanguinate
• Kodama's Reach
• Harmonize
• Rishkar's Expertise
• Shamanic Revelation
• Evolving Wilds
• Terramorphic Expanse
• Bojuka Bog
• Rampant Growth
• Migration Path
• Damnable Pact
• Ashnod's Altar
• Loxodon Warhammer
• Darksteel Plate
• Blackblade Reforged
• Cankerbloom
• Pitiless Plunderer
• Blighted Woodland
• Falkenrath Noble

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.19
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Food, Fungus Beast 4/4 G, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Pest 1/1 BG, Treasure