Witherbloom Pestilence by user7837339

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Golgari deck uses Dina, Essence Brewer to convert creature sacrifices into card advantage, life gain, and board presence. The game plan focuses on deploying early ramp to cast Dina on turn 2 or 3, followed by token generators like Ophiomancer and Awakening Zone on turn 4. Once established, the deck leverages aristocrat payoffs including Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Mirkwood Bats to drain opponents steadily. The primary win condition peaks on turn 6, utilizing massive bodies like Daemogoth Titan and Ghalta, Primal Hunger alongside Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord to fling lethal damage at the entire table, or closing out the game with an overwhelming Exsanguinate. The deck features strong permanent removal and graveyard recursion, though it has minimal instant-speed stack protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arwen, Weaver of Hope
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Daemogoth Titan
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Desperate Plea
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feral Ghoul
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Host of the Hereafter
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Lair of the Hydra
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Pharika, God of Affliction
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Preacher of the Schism
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Rampant Rejuvenator
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vicious Rivalry
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Winter, Tormented Loner
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Witherbloom Campus
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Woodfall Primus
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat