Art: Andrey Kuzinskiy · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast

Winter, Cynical Opportunist

Legendary Creature — Human Warlock · from $0.38

Deathtouch Whenever Winter attacks, mill three cards. Delirium — At the beginning of your end step, you may exile any number of cards from your graveyard with four or more card types among them. If you do, put a permanent card from among them onto the battlefield with a finality counter on it.

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A typical Commander deck

A starting template, not a rule — counts to fill in around the commander.

Lands3736–38 for most decks; fewer with cheap curves
Ramp10mana rocks, dorks, land ramp — mostly 2–3 mana
Card draw10repeatable engines beat one-shot cantrips
Targeted removal6answers for creatures AND artifacts/enchantments
Board wipes3sweepers reset boards you've lost
Synergy & win conditions33the deck's actual plan

Staples in these colors

The 100 cards that fit this color identity in the most EDHREC decklists (EDHREC rank via Scryfall).

Budget

54 of 100 at $5 or less · 34 at $1 or less

#	Card	Type	MV	Price
1	Sol Ring	Artifact	1	$1.07
2	Command Tower	Land	0	$0.26
3	Arcane Signet	Artifact	2	$0.34
4	Exotic Orchard	Land	0	$0.19
5	Reliquary Tower	Land	0	$4.28
6	Swiftfoot Boots	Artifact	2	$1.43
7	Lightning Greaves	Artifact	2	$3.86
8	Path of Ancestry	Land	0	$0.16
9	Fellwar Stone	Artifact	2	$0.47
10	Rogue's Passage	Land	0	$0.31
11	Evolving Wilds	Land	0	$0.09
12	Cultivate	Sorcery	3	$0.38
13	Thought Vessel	Artifact	2	$2.23
14	Farseek	Sorcery	2	$0.42
15	Bojuka Bog	Land	0	$1.12
16	Beast Within	Instant	3	$0.49
17	Nature's Lore	Sorcery	2	$2.15
18	Rampant Growth	Sorcery	2	$0.39
19	Heroic Intervention	Instant	2	$9.28
20	Terramorphic Expanse	Land	0	$0.10
21	Myriad Landscape	Land	0	$0.25
22	Mind Stone	Artifact	2	$0.21
23	Dark Ritual	Instant	1	$0.44
24	Birds of Paradise	Creature	1	$4.98
25	Polluted Delta	Land	0	$19.85
26	Kodama's Reach	Sorcery	3	$1.55
27	Flooded Strand	Land	0	$12.78
28	Three Visits	Sorcery	2	$5.55
29	Skullclamp	Artifact	1	$4.85
30	Solemn Simulacrum	Creature	4	$0.27
31	Misty Rainforest	Land	0	$35.98
32	Bloodstained Mire	Land	0	$14.54
33	Fabled Passage	Land	0	$0.65
34	Windswept Heath	Land	0	$11.19
35	Wooded Foothills	Land	0	$17.96
36	Verdant Catacombs	Land	0	$29.16
37	Scalding Tarn	Land	0	$36.86
38	Marsh Flats	Land	0	$32.04
39	Commander's Sphere	Artifact	3	$0.19
40	Reanimate	Sorcery	1	$6.56
41	Arid Mesa	Land	0	$31.40
42	Llanowar Elves	Creature	1	$0.24
43	Demonic Tutor	Sorcery	2	$62.80
44	Toxic Deluge	Sorcery	3	$5.04
45	Ancient Tomb	Land	0	$56.94
46	Overgrown Tomb	Land	0	$8.00
47	Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth	Land	0	$56.13
48	Boseiju, Who Endures	Land	0	$50.48
49	Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth	Land	0	$16.76
50	Temple of the False God	Land	0	$0.19
51	Chromatic Lantern	Artifact	3	$0.38
52	Garruk's Uprising	Enchantment	3	$0.39
53	Feed the Swarm	Sorcery	2	$0.19
54	City of Brass	Land	0	$9.17
55	The One Ring	Artifact	4	$109.88
56	Elvish Mystic	Creature	1	$0.35
57	Phyrexian Arena	Enchantment	3	$1.92
58	Deadly Rollick	Instant	4	$26.52
59	Cavern of Souls	Land	0	$47.72
60	Woodland Cemetery	Land	0	$0.62
61	Sakura-Tribe Elder	Creature	2	$0.30
62	Vampiric Tutor	Instant	1	$48.13
63	Mana Confluence	Land	0	$34.75
64	Urza's Saga	Enchantment	0	$34.67
65	Lotus Petal	Artifact	0	$35.11
66	Eternal Witness	Creature	3	$1.10
67	Assassin's Trophy	Instant	2	$1.01
68	Wayfarer's Bauble	Artifact	1	$0.31
69	Black Market Connections	Enchantment	3	$10.78
70	Victimize	Sorcery	3	$0.57
71	Deadly Dispute	Instant	2	$0.29
72	Roaming Throne	Creature	4	$47.06
73	Ashnod's Altar	Artifact	3	$8.15
74	Llanowar Wastes	Land	0	$0.59
75	War Room	Land	0	$0.79
76	Blood Artist	Creature	2	$2.78
77	Delighted Halfling	Creature	1	$25.91
78	Herald's Horn	Artifact	3	$2.88
79	Mana Vault	Artifact	1	$91.59
80	Chrome Mox	Artifact	0	$51.19
81	Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx	Land	0	$45.68
82	Reflecting Pool	Land	0	$5.50
83	Worldly Tutor	Instant	1	$26.58
84	Undergrowth Stadium	Land	0	$5.20
85	Three Tree City	Land	0	$29.09
86	Return of the Wildspeaker	Instant	5	$1.51
87	Gemstone Caverns	Land	0	$62.05
88	Night's Whisper	Sorcery	2	$0.23
89	Command Beacon	Land	0	$7.99
90	Hardened Scales	Enchantment	1	$1.85
91	Tireless Provisioner	Creature	3	$2.33
92	Doubling Season	Enchantment	5	$29.62
93	Idol of Oblivion	Artifact	2	$2.40
94	Prismatic Vista	Land	0	$28.10
95	Buried Ruin	Land	0	$0.38
96	Phyrexian Tower	Land	0	$29.06
97	Thran Dynamo	Artifact	4	$1.94
98	Mosswort Bridge	Land	0	$0.21
99	Fell the Profane // Fell Mire	Instant	4	$5.80
100	Cabal Coffers	Land	0	$20.77

Curve of these staples

Most played with Winter, Cynical Opportunist

The 25 most-played cards in 9 settled top-16 lists running Winter, Cynical Opportunist at 16+ player events since Mar 6, 2026, ranked by lists played — top-4 counts shown for context. Results from Topdeck.gg.

#	Card	Played in	Top 4
1	Arachnogenesis	100% · 9 of 9	1
2	Arcane Signet	100% · 9 of 9	1
3	Barren Moor	100% · 9 of 9	1
4	Binding the Old Gods	100% · 9 of 9	1
5	Bojuka Bog	100% · 9 of 9	1
6	Command Tower	100% · 9 of 9	1
7	Convert to Slime	100% · 9 of 9	1
8	Crawling Sensation	100% · 9 of 9	1
9	Culling Ritual	100% · 9 of 9	1
10	Darkmoss Bridge	100% · 9 of 9	1
11	Deathcap Cultivator	100% · 9 of 9	1
12	Deluge of Doom	100% · 9 of 9	1
13	Demolisher Spawn	100% · 9 of 9	1
14	Demonic Covenant	100% · 9 of 9	1
15	Dryad Arbor	100% · 9 of 9	1
16	Evolving Wilds	100% · 9 of 9	1
17	Exotic Orchard	100% · 9 of 9	1
18	Forest	100% · 9 of 9	1
19	Giant Adephage	100% · 9 of 9	1
20	Grapple with the Past	100% · 9 of 9	1
21	Grim Backwoods	100% · 9 of 9	1
22	Grim Flayer	100% · 9 of 9	1
23	Grisly Salvage	100% · 9 of 9	1
24	Grist, the Hunger Tide	100% · 9 of 9	1
25	Haywire Mite	100% · 9 of 9	1

Top finishes

The 8 most recent of 10 finishes placing top 16 at 16+ player events with this commander. Results from Topdeck.gg.

16th of 31 — LANDFALL cEDH - LabTable x Displacer Lion on Topdeck.ggOct 3, 2026 · 1–2–1 · by Enzo Baroni
3rd of 32 — Commander Casual - Magic Barcelona on Topdeck.ggAug 28, 2026 · 1–1–0 · by Jose Maria
11th of 24 — Commander Budget - Magic Barcelona on Topdeck.ggAug 17, 2026 · 0–2–0 · by Alex
12th of 24 — June 2026 - MTNG on Topdeck.ggJun 14, 2026 · 0–0–3 · by Илья
11th of 20 — Commander Budget - Magic Barcelona on Topdeck.ggMay 18, 2026 · 0–2–0 · by Mattia
8th of 22 — April 2026 - MTNG on Topdeck.ggApr 19, 2026 · 1–2–1 · by Илья
6th of 24 — March 2026 - MTNG on Topdeck.ggMar 22, 2026 · 1–0–3 · by Илья
10th of 17 — Liga Mesão Online S1 - E04 on Topdeck.ggMar 12, 2026 · 0–0–2 · by luis felipe garcia birsk

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Precons led by Winter, Cynical Opportunist

Official preconstructed decks with Winter, Cynical Opportunist at the helm.

Death Toll
PreconCommander· Released Sep 2024

Card data and images courtesy of Scryfall; popularity ranking from EDHREC decklist data included in Scryfall bulk. Tournament results courtesy of Topdeck.gg. Precon product lists via MTGJSON. Deckwarden is unofficial Fan Content and is not endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.

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