token affinty gng b.3 by user2870918

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari midrange token swarm strategy helmed by Witherbloom, the Balancer. The primary game plan revolves around generating wide boards of creature tokens—such as Pests, Goblins, Dryads, and Halflings—through cards like Awaken the Woods, Pest Summoning, Elfsworn Giant, and The Notary Hobbits. These creature tokens drastically reduce the mana cost of Witherbloom, the Balancer via creature affinity, allowing the commander to enter early for as little as two colored mana. Once on the battlefield, the commander grants affinity for creatures to all instant and sorcery spells, enabling powerful draw spells, removal, and token generators to be cast for minimal mana. The deck closes games around Turn 8 through wide combat swings powered by Return of the Wildspeaker, Vigor, and Ghalta the Unstoppable, alongside life drain attrition from Bastion of Remembrance and Zulaport Cutthroat. While resilient and flexible, it relies on natural draws due to a lack of generic tutors.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 A Realm Reborn
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arnim Zola, Bio-Fanatic
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Call Damage Control
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Containment Breach
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decoy Ploy
  • 1 Down, Down to Goblin-town
  • 1 Elanor Gardner
  • 1 Elfsworn Giant
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fight On!
  • 1 Foot Chopper
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Ghalta the Unstoppable
  • 1 Gohn, Town of Ruin
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Hunt for Specimens
  • 1 Jiang Yanggu, Never Alone
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Llanowar Visionary
  • 1 Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
  • 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Noxious Newt
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Pest Summoning
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Professor of Zoomancy
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shredder's Technique
  • 1 Sidequest: Raise a Chocobo // Black Chocobo
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skullport Merchant
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splinter, the Mentor
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Treats
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unforgiving Aim
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Vote Out
  • 1 Wild Hypothesis
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Witherbloom Campus
  • 1 Witherbloom Pledgemage
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Zendikar's Roil
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat