Witherbloom Popoff by gsarge9289

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari spellslinger and token combo deck helmed by Witherbloom, the Balancer. The strategy focuses on curving out low-cost mana dorks, token creators, and utility creatures during the first three turns to rapidly reduce the casting cost of its commander. Once Witherbloom enters the battlefield, it grants affinity for creatures to all instants and sorceries, drastically lowering the cost of draw spells, removal, and buyback effects. The primary win condition is an infinite loop between Witherbloom and Sprout Swarm, which reduces the spell's buyback cost to zero generic mana and uses convoke on newly created Saprolings to cast the spell infinitely. This generates infinite storm, infinite creatures, and immediate table kills through drain payoffs like Witherbloom Apprentice and Mirkwood Bats. Efficient green and black protection spells defend the combo during critical execution windows.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chatterstorm
  • 1 Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Collusion
  • 1 Diary of Dreams
  • 1 Dragonsguard Elite
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 For the Common Good
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Lab Rats
  • 1 Leech Collector // Bloodletting
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Mentor
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Monster Manual // Zoological Study
  • 1 Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Reaping the Graves
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rosethorn Acolyte // Seasonal Ritual
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Slaughter
  • 1 Sprout Swarm
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Tendrils of Agony
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Weather the Storm
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wrenn and Realmbreaker
  • 1 Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis // Lasting Fayth