Pests (owned) (copy) by user8724017

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This Golgari deck pairs a wide creature token strategy with big-mana aristocrat payoffs, commanded by Witherbloom, the Balancer. The primary plan builds a wide swarm of tokens during turns 2 to 4 using efficient generators such as Awaken the Woods, Scute Swarm, and Tendershoot Dryad. This swarm dramatically reduces the cost of the commander, which in turn grants affinity for creatures to all instant and sorcery spells. By Turn 5, the engine becomes fully operational, allowing massive draw spells like Shamanic Revelation and Collective Unconscious to be cast for just two green mana. On Turn 6, the deck converts this resource surplus into an immediate table kill through an affinity-discounted Behold the Beyond fetching the infinite Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond combo, or by generating massive mana via Ashnod's Altar for a lethal Exsanguinate. While vulnerable to exile sweepers, the deck features strong recursion, high token redundancy, and potent asymmetric board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 A Realm Reborn
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Attempted Murder
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Battle at the Bridge
  • 1 Behold the Beyond
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blessed Respite
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blunt the Assault
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Collective Unconscious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creakwood Liege
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Elfsworn Giant
  • 1 Essenceknit Scholar
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Galadhrim Ambush
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Hammer of Nazahn
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Ivy Lane Denizen
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Mirkwood
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Panther Habit
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restless Cottage
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Abomination
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wrap in Vigor