Witherbloom, the balancer by ilsalve

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a unique Golgari Aristocrats and Spellslinger hybrid helmed by Witherbloom, the Balancer. The primary game plan revolves around flooding the board with cheap creatures and tokens (Pests, Saprolings, and Squirrels) to exploit the commander's passive ability, which grants affinity for creatures to all of your instant and sorcery spells. By reducing the generic mana costs of massive, high-impact spells to near-zero, the deck can cast game-ending sorceries like Rise of the Eldrazi, Tooth and Nail, or Rise of the Dark Realms for just their colored mana pips. The deck closes out games either through overwhelming combat damage from token swarms, massive life drain via Exsanguinate, or classic Aristocrat drain loops utilizing Witherbloom Apprentice, Blood Artist, and Zulaport Cutthroat paired with sacrifice outlets like Plumb the Forbidden.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Animist's Awakening
• 1 Arbor Elf
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Awakening Zone
• 1 Bayou
• 1 Behold the Beyond
• 1 Beledros Witherbloom
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Blood Pet
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Casualties of War
• 1 Chatterstorm
• 1 Coiling Rebirth
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Creakwood Liege
• 1 Culling Ritual
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dark Petition
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Brew
• 1 Diabolic Revelation
• 1 Diabolic Tutor
• 1 Dina's Guidance
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Eldritch Evolution
• 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Final Act
• 1 Final Parting
• 4 Forest
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Gaea's Cradle
• 1 Gemstone Caverns
• 1 Increasing Ambition
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1 Life // Death
• 1 Lively Dirge
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Moldervine Reclamation
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mosswort Bridge
• 1 Mycoloth
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Pawn of Ulamog
• 1 Pest Infestation
• 1 Pest Rescuer
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Ribtruss Roaster
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Rise of the Eldrazi
• 1 Smothering Abomination
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sprout Swarm
• 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Teacher's Pest
• 1 Tendershoot Dryad
• 1 Tooth and Nail
• 1 Turbulent Fen
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
• 1 Underground Mortuary
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Wight of the Reliquary
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
• 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
• 1 Woe Strider
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat