Witherbloom, The Balancer by jmudgett682

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is built around Witherbloom, the Balancer, using a wide creature presence to radically reduce the mana costs of high-impact instant and sorcery spells. In the early turns, the deck deploys low-cost mana dorks and persistent token producers like Ophiomancer and Black Market Connections. Once the commander enters the battlefield, massive sorceries such as Army of the Damned, In Garruk's Wake, and Preposterous Proportions cost only their colored mana requirements. The primary strategy focuses on deploying a massive token army on Turn 5 and closing the game on Turn 6 with an overwhelming pump spell or asymmetric board wipe. While the deck possesses explosive mana efficiency and strong permanent removal, its reliance on sorcery-speed token armies leaves it vulnerable to countermagic and exile-based board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Arborback Stomper
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Black Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Chatterstorm
  • 1 Chief Warg's Company
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Convert to Slime
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Diabolic Revelation
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 For the Common Good
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Galewind Moose
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Head of the Hunt
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Noxious Newt
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Plague Wind
  • 1 Preposterous Proportions
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scour from Existence
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 19 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Visara the Dreadful
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat