Witherbloom Pestilence edits by Creeptime

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

An aggressive Golgari aristocrats deck built around Dina, Essence Brewer. The commander is a repeatable draw engine on the first sacrifice each turn, not a combo piece; the deck wins by turning creature deaths into life loss. It creates a steady stream of cheap tokens, then uses high-power Demons as burst ammunition with Tend the Pests and The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride. Drain permanents like Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance, Blood Artist, and Dina, Soul Steeper convert each token death into multiple life-loss triggers, while Meren and Victimize provide recursion. There is no hidden commander; Dina, Soul Steeper is a non-commander finisher. The deck is mid-paced, resistant to spot removal through redundancy, but weak to board wipes and graveyard hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Awakening Zone
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Beledros Witherbloom
• 1 Blight Mound
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Culling Ritual
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Daemogoth Titan
• 1 Daemogoth Woe-Eater
• 1 Deadly Brew
• 1 Defiling Daemogoth
• 1 Dina's Guidance
• 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
• 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
• 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Festering Thicket
• 8 Forest
• 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1 Gorma, the Gullet
• 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
• 1 Grim Backwoods
• 1 Gyre Sage
• 1 Haunted Mire
• 1 Haywire Mite
• 1 High Market
• 1 Immoral Bargain
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1 Merchant of Venom
• 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1 Moldervine Reclamation
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mortality Spear
• 1 Mycoloth
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pest Infestation
• 1 Pest Rescuer
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1 Ribtruss Roaster
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
• 1 Study Hall
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Teacher's Pest
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Tend the Pests
• 1 Tendershoot Dryad
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Terrasymbiosis
• 1 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
• 1 Titan's Grave
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Turbulent Fen
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
• 1 Veinwitch Coven
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Viridescent Bog
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Wight of the Reliquary
• 1 Witch of the Moors
• 1 Witherbloom Campus
• 1 Witherbloom Charm
• 1 Witherbloom Command
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat