golgari 500 (duplicated from wamelo) by user2522319

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

Witherbloom, the Balancer leads a Golgari swarm and combo strategy that leverages a critical mass of cheap creatures to dramatically reduce spell costs. Early turns focus on flooding the board with efficient mana dorks and token generators. By Turn 4, the commander enters for as little as two mana, immediately granting affinity for creatures to all instant and sorcery spells. This cost reduction turns cards like Shamanic Revelation and Tooth and Nail into massive tempo plays. The primary win condition is an infinite loop with Sprout Swarm, which costs only a single green mana when four creatures are present. Because Sprout Swarm possesses convoke and creates an untapped Saproling token on resolution, it can be cast infinitely to generate an arbitrarily large army. Paired with Mirkwood Bats or Witherbloom Apprentice, this loop drains all three opponents instantly at instant speed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Armored Scrapgorger
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Behold the Beyond
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dark Tutelage
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Destiny Spinner
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dream Devourer
  • 1 Dusk Legion Zealot
  • 1 Ecological Appreciation
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Visionary
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Fungal Infection
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Great Arashin City
  • 1 Grim Servant
  • 1 Hardbristle Bandit
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Hope of Ghirapur
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 1 Intrepid Paleontologist
  • 1 Khalni Garden
  • 1 Kindred Summons
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Leafkin Druid
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Life // Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Long Goodbye
  • 1 Manglehorn
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mirrex
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rise of the Dread Marn
  • 1 Rise of the Varmints
  • 1 Rootcast Apprenticeship
  • 1 Saproling Symbiosis
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
  • 1 Sprout Swarm
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Tender Wildguide
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Undercover Skrull
  • 1 Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Command
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Roots
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Xantid Swarm