Dina, Soul Steeper

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Dina is a 2cmc Golgari legendary that drains all opponents 1 life whenever you gain life, and can sacrifice creatures to pump herself. She is a signature commander and payoff in lifegain-aristocrats shells, converting life gains into damage while also offering a sacrifice outlet for emergency power spikes. Her drain trigger makes her a natural combo piece with mass-lifegain engines (e.g., Ezzaroot Channeler, Aetherflux Reservoir), but she's narrow outside of dedicated lifegain/aristocrats strategies.

• Dina's drain trigger fires once per lifegain event regardless of how much life is gained — stacking large single-event life gains (e.g., from Vito + Exquisite Blood combos) only drains 1 per event, not per point of life gained.

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• Her sacrifice ability is a mana-activated outlet ({1} + sac a creature), not a free outlet, which makes her less competitive in aristocrats compared to free-sac outlets like Viscera Seer or Carrion Feeder.

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• Dina pairs particularly well with Exquisite Blood as one half of the Dina + Exquisite Blood two-card infinite loop: any life gain triggers Dina, which causes opponents to lose life, which triggers Exquisite Blood to give you life, looping indefinitely.

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• EDHREC rank: #2,770