widerblom upgraded by waliwigi101

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is a creature-heavy ramp and value list built around Witherbloom, the Balancer's affinity discount. The primary plan is to fill the board with cheap creatures and land-ramping Elves, then cast Witherbloom for a reduced cost and use the instant/sorcery affinity to fire off removal, fight tricks, and the Sprout Swarm loop. A secondary plan wins through Hornet Queen, Awakening Zone, and Primeval Bounty tokens, boosted by Root Manipulation or Rydia's Return. The cleanest win line is an infinite Saproling loop: Witherbloom plus Sprout Swarm, with Brightcap Badger providing mana and Exsanguinate draining the table. The commander is the engine of the fast combo, but the shell can still function as a midrange beatdown deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aberrant Manawurm
  • 1 Airship Crash
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Blessed Respite
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic
  • 1 Colossal Collision
  • 1 Cost of Brilliance
  • 1 Cycle of Renewal
  • 1 Dark Salvation
  • 1 Dead Revels
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Earth Rumble
  • 1 Eclipsed Elf
  • 1 Elvish Visionary
  • 1 Evil Reawakened
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fang of Shigeki
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Fight On!
  • 1 Foggy Bottom Swamp
  • 1 Follow the Lumarets
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Foul Renewal
  • 1 Gala Greeters
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Hullcarver
  • 1 Illicit Shipment
  • 1 Infirmary Healer // Stream of Life
  • 1 Ivy Lane Denizen
  • 1 Knockout Maneuver
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 March of the Returned
  • 1 Natural Connection
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Paradise Druid
  • 1 Peregrination
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Punishing Punch
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Restorative Technique
  • 1 Rift Sower
  • 1 Roamer's Routine
  • 1 Root Manipulation
  • 1 Rydia's Return
  • 1 Slice from the Shadows
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Sprout Swarm
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Stream of Life
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Offering
  • 1 Sylvan Ranger
  • 1 Thwart the Enemy
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Undercover Skrull
  • 1 Verdant Embrace
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viewpoint Synchronization
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Wander Off
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Zimone's Experiment
  • 1 Zombify