Wither we boomin or not by user4521956

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 58

Deck overview

Witherbloom, the Balancer commands a Golgari swarm storm and aristocrats deck designed to overwhelm opponents through extreme mana efficiency and burst card draw. The deck's primary engine uses low-cost creatures and token producers—such as Birds of Paradise, Bitterbloom Bearer, and Chatterfang, Squirrel General—to rapidly establish a wide board state by Turn 3. This enables the commander to enter for just {B}{G} via its affinity for creatures. Once on the battlefield, Witherbloom grants affinity to all instant and sorcery spells, reducing massive game-ending sorceries like Peer into the Abyss and Army of the Damned to triple black mana. Resolving an affinity-discounted Peer into the Abyss draws half the library, uncovering fast mana and aristocrat drain engines like Blood Artist, Marionette Apprentice, and Mirkwood Bats. The turn immediately closes through Exsanguinate or Plumb the Forbidden, draining the table for lethal. Backup lines include an infinite mana combo between Hazel's Brewmaster and Devoted Druid.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkmoss Bridge
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Gardenize
  • 1 Gene Pollinator
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Great Arashin City
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Hazel's Brewmaster
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Killing Wave
  • 1 Kishla Village
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mirkwood
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Ominous Harvest
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Primal Might
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Roiling Canopy
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Sprout Swarm
  • 1 Strangled Cemetery
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat