Tokens by ProfDuebeldore

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This Golgari deck pairs go-wide token generation with Witherbloom, the Balancer to dramatically accelerate heavy mana curves and massive X-cost sorceries. Early turns establish a wide creature footprint using efficient token engines like Bitterblossom, Chatterfang, Squirrel General, and Awakening Zone, alongside mana dorks. Once 4 or more creatures are in play, Witherbloom, the Balancer enters for minimal mana and grants affinity for creatures to all instants and sorceries. This discount transforms high-mana card draw like Shamanic Revelation and Stinging Study into near-free cantrips that dig into game-ending payoffs. On Turn 5, the deck channels immense affinity discounts and 'cradle' mana engines into devastating finishers like Finale of Devastation into Craterhoof Behemoth or a massive Torment of Hailfire, closing out the entire table in a single turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Cellarspawn
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Biorhythm
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Cabal Conditioning
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Chittering Dispatcher
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Collective Unconscious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 For the Common Good
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gelatinous Genesis
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hunting Pack
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 1 Life // Death
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plague Wind
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Sprout Swarm
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Szat's Will
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Windgrace's Judgment
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery