Wither by KaylX

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is helmed by Witherbloom, the Balancer, an Elder Dragon commander that grants instant and sorcery spells affinity for creatures. The deck leverages an aggressive early-game deployment of low-cost mana dorks and token generators like Scatter the Seeds, Saproling Symbiosis, and Pest Infestation to flood the board with cheap bodies. This wide presence dramatically reduces the commander's casting cost, allowing Witherbloom, the Balancer to enter as early as Turn 4 for just two mana. Once on the battlefield, the commander turns the deck's high-mana sorceries and instants into game-breaking tempo plays. Massive draw spells such as Collective Unconscious and Shamanic Revelation refill the hand for minimal colored pips, while asymmetric board wipes like In Garruk's Wake and Plague Wind or devastating hand disruption like Cabal Conditioning strip opposing resources. The deck swiftly closes games on Turn 6 via devastating overrun effects such as Craterhoof Behemoth, Preposterous Proportions, or lethal life drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Ancient Craving
  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Biorhythm
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boreal Druid
  • 1 Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic
  • 1 Cabal Conditioning
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Collective Unconscious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Curse of the Cabal
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Diabolic Revelation
  • 1 Dregs of Sorrow
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 For the Common Good
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Khalni Garden
  • 1 Lifestream's Blessing
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nuclear Fallout
  • 1 Outrageous Robbery
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Plague Wind
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Preposterous Proportions
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Saproling Symbiosis
  • 1 Scatter the Seeds
  • 1 Scour from Existence
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Sprout Swarm
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Offering
  • 1 Szat's Will
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tender Wildguide
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vitalizing Wind
  • 1 Windgrace's Judgment
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Wolfcaller's Howl
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wrap in Vigor
  • 1 Zuko's Exile