Witherbloom Pestilence by user7837339

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is an Aristocrats and lifegain engine built around Dina, Essence Brewer. The deck aims to generate a steady stream of creature tokens using cards like Ophiomancer, Pest Rescuer, Awakening Zone, and Beledros Witherbloom. It converts these expendable bodies into card advantage through Dina, Morbid Opportunist, and Liliana, Dreadhorde General. As creatures die, drain engines like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Mirkwood Bats, and Cauldron of Essence whittle down opposing life totals while bolstering your own. For closing power, the deck leverages massive threats like Daemogoth Titan, Ghalta, Primal Hunger, and Jumbo Cactuar, sacrificing them to Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord or converting lifegain into lethal bursts via Defiling Daemogoth and Exsanguinate. High functional redundancy and graveyard recursion grant resilience against disruption, though the deck relies heavily on keeping creature permanents in play and lacks stack interaction against fast combo strategies.

Decklist (102 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arwen, Weaver of Hope
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Daemogoth Titan
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Desperate Plea
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feral Ghoul
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Host of the Hereafter
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Lair of the Hydra
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Mascot
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Pharika, God of Affliction
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Preacher of the Schism
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Rampant Rejuvenator
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vicious Rivalry
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Witherbloom Campus
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Woodfall Primus
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat