Delectable Tea or Deadly Poison? (Dina)

Commander / EDH Aristocrats BG (Golgari) Bracket 3 Druid Group Slug Lifegain Midrange Primer Sacrifice Tokens

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Lifegain / Tokens / Sacrifice (30)

• 1x Deathgreeter
• 1x Essence Warden
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1x Marionette Apprentice
• 1x Spawning Pit *list*
• 1x Vengeful Bloodwitch
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Blight Mound
• 1x Dross Harvester
• 1x Golgari Germination
• 1x Lord Skitter, Sewer King
• 1x Nadier's Nightblade
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Popular Egotist
• 1x Woe Strider
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Sanguinary Priest
• 1x Sifter of Skulls
• 1x Venerated Stormsinger
• 1x Vindictive Vampire
• 1x Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
• 1x Wolverine Riders
• 1x Beledros Witherbloom
• 1x Funeral Room / Awakening Hall

Redundancy (5)

• 1x Starscape Cleric
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Marauding Blight-Priest
• 1x Epicure of Blood
• 1x Living Death

Lands (36)

• 1x Agadeem, the Undercrypt  ^Flip
• 1x Bala Ged Sanctuary  ^Flip
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Fell Mire  ^Flip
• 5x Forest
• 1x Fountainport
• 1x High Market
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Viridescent Bog
• 1x War Room
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Removal (7)

• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Pest Infestation
• 1x Accursed Marauder
• 1x Tithing Blade  ^Flip
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Foundation Breaker

Commander (1)

Ramp (11)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sporocyst
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Clifftop Lookout
• 1x Elvish Rejuvenator
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Rootweaver Druid
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru
• 1x Topiary Stomper
• 1x Wood Elves

Card Draw (10)

• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Morbid Opportunist
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General

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Maybeboard

Other (12)

• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Underground Mortuary
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Corrupted Conviction
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Guardian Project

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Deck Goal

This is an aristocrats lifegain synergy deck. Try and start your hand with a 3 mana ramp creature, enough lands, and possibly a card draw engine. Your free sac outlets like Viscera Seer and Ashnod's Altar are vulnerable to removal and I find it best to hold them back for when you can threaten to go off with sac value (like loads of card draw) or to deal lethal to your opponents; though lategame, Dina can usually sac enough creatures herself to end games on a well setup board as insurance.

Notable Exclusion(s)

Not including Exquisite Blood nor Bloodthirsty Conqueror because of how they would makes games end quite lamely with Dina. Not including Dictate of Erebos, Grave Pact, Butcher of Malakir, nor Savra, Queen of the Golgari right now.

Please let me know what you think! What would you swap in? Currently considering adding more lands and card draw for consistency. What would you cut? Updated April 12th, 2025

Top Ranked	Achieved #27 position overall 3 years ago Achieved #22 position in Commander / EDH 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) 3 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 32 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.12
Tokens	2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Fish 1/1 U, Goat 0/1 W, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Morph 2/2 C, Pest 1/1 BG, Plant 0/1 G, Rat 1/1 B w/ Can't Block, Saproling 1/1 G, Servo 1/1 C, Snake 1/1 B, Starscape Cleric 1/1 B, Treasure, Warrior 1/1 R, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed
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