witherbloom by user2226422

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This Golgari deck harnesses lifegain synergies, Pest token creation, and aristocrat drain engines centered around its commander, Witherbloom, the Balancer. By establishing an early board of low-cost creatures and recurring tokens like Teacher's Pest and Hunt for Specimens, the deck drastically reduces the cost of its commander. Once Witherbloom enters the battlefield, its ability grants affinity for creatures to all instant and sorcery spells, enabling massive discounts on game-altering spells like Exsanguinate, Profane Command, Awaken the Woods, and Stargaze. The deck converts incidental lifegain into board buffs and opponent life loss through enablers like Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist, Blech, Loafing Pest, and Cauldron of Essence. While it possesses strong resilience and engine recovery through abundant recursion, the deck is vulnerable to sweeping board wipes and lacks stack-based interaction, relying on overwhelming creature numbers and explosive drain spells to close out games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurous Eater // Have a Bite
  • 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Broodspinner
  • 1 Burrog Banemaker
  • 1 Burrog Barrage
  • 1 Callous Bloodmage
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Clear Shot
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Containment Breach
  • 1 Cost of Brilliance
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dissection Practice
  • 1 Efflorescence
  • 1 Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth
  • 1 End of the Hunt
  • 1 Essenceknit Scholar
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Follow the Lumarets
  • 1 Foolish Fate
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 16 Forest
  • 1 Glorious Decay
  • 1 Grapple with Death
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravedig
  • 1 Hunt for Specimens
  • 1 Knockout Maneuver
  • 1 Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
  • 1 Lumaret's Favor
  • 1 Melancholic Poet
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Noxious Newt
  • 1 Pest Mascot
  • 1 Pestbrood Sloth
  • 1 Pick Your Poison
  • 1 Postmortem Professor
  • 1 Pox Plague
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Profane Command
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Rise of the Varmints
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sanguine Syphoner
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Smallpox
  • 1 Sneering Shadewriter
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 18 Swamp
  • 1 Synapse Necromage
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 The Hunger Tide Rises
  • 1 Thornfist Striker
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Urborg Repossession
  • 1 Vraan, Executioner Thane
  • 1 Wild Hypothesis
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer