The Cost of Living by user3351984

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This Golgari deck leverages cheap mana dorks and token generators to establish a wide board presence in the early turns. Witherbloom, the Balancer reduces its own casting cost through creature affinity and gives all instant and sorcery spells affinity for creatures. This discount turns massive draw spells like Stinging Study and Shamanic Revelation into cheap refill engines, while making removal spells like Tear Asunder and Beast Within cost single colored pips. The primary win route tutors Craterhoof Behemoth directly onto the battlefield using Natural Order or Finale of Devastation on Turn 5, granting massive trample buffs across the wide creature board to eliminate all three opponents simultaneously. The deck features strong recovery through self-contained token engines and resilient mana production.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Chittering Dispatcher
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
  • 1 Khalni Garden
  • 1 Life // Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Majestic Genesis
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Manglehorn
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Saproling Symbiosis
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth