Witherbloom, the Balancer v2 by animark93

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck utilizes Witherbloom, the Balancer at the helm of a green-black token swarm and aristocrat strategy. Early turns focus on accelerating mana and generating resilient, incremental token producers like Ophiomancer, Pest Rescuer, and cheap mana dorks. Once 5 to 6 creatures are in play, Witherbloom enters for as little as two mana, granting instant and sorcery spells affinity for creatures. This discount enables explosive turns where high-cost sorceries like Army of the Damned, Collective Unconscious, Genesis Wave, and Exsanguinate are cast for negligible mana. The deck can pivot between swarming combat damage, asymmetric board attrition with Grave Pact, and indirect life drain via Mirkwood Bats, Blood Artist, and Zulaport Cutthroat. While resilient against single-target removal due to high token density, the strategy is vulnerable to heavy board wipes and lacks stack-based interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar's Reap
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Collective Unconscious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creakwood Liege
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Elfsworn Giant
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 For the Common Good
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Goobbue Gardener
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Gysahl Greens
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Jiang Yanggu, Never Alone
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mindless Conscription
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Primal Vigor
  • 1 Quina, Qu Gourmet
  • 1 Restorative Technique
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Sephiroth's Intervention
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Trudge Garden
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Wild Hypothesis
  • 1 Witherbloom Campus
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zimone's Experiment
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat