Witherblooooom by tripleburn

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is an explosive go-wide swarm engine commanded by Witherbloom, the Balancer. The primary strategy focuses on deploying low-cost mana dorks and token producers during the early turns to build a critical mass of creatures. By Turn 4, the commander enters for as little as two mana via affinity for creatures, immediately granting affinity to all instant and sorcery spells in the deck. This discount transforms expensive card draw spells like Stinging Study and Shamanic Revelation into single-mana refills and turns high-cost asymmetric interaction like Cabal Conditioning and In Garruk's Wake into cheap tempo blowouts. On Turn 5, the deck converts its massive board presence and reduced costs into a decisive same-turn finish using Finale of Devastation into Craterhoof Behemoth or a lethal Torment of Hailfire. Built-in protection spells defend the board against opposing interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Ancient Craving
  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Biorhythm
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Cabal Conditioning
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Chittering Dispatcher
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Defend the Rider
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dregs of Sorrow
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grow from the Ashes
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Increasing Ambition
  • 1 Khalni Garden
  • 1 Life // Death
  • 1 Lifestream's Blessing
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Majestic Genesis
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Plague Wind
  • 1 Plague of Vermin
  • 1 Praetor's Counsel
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rude Awakening
  • 1 Saproling Symbiosis
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Sinkhole Surveyor
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 3 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 2 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Sprout Swarm
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 1 Super Combo
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Offering
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Weaponcraft Enthusiast
  • 1 Welcome the Dead
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth