Beledros Lifegain/-drain by Did

Format: Commander

Commander: Beledros Witherbloom

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Golgari aristocrats and big-mana strategy commanded by Beledros Witherbloom. The primary game plan accelerates mana rapidly during the opening turns using efficient mana dorks and land-ramp spells to deploy Beledros on Turn 5. Beledros immediately refunds mana by paying 10 life to untap all lands, enabling rapid deployment of card draw engines like Skullclamp or Yawgmoth, Thran Physician. Across each opponent's upkeep, Beledros produces Pest tokens that provide sacrifice fodder, lifegain, and death triggers. By Turn 6, the deck leverages its doubled mana pool alongside Cabal Coffers or Ashnod's Altar to cast a game-ending Torment of Hailfire or Exsanguinate, wiping out the entire table in one turn. While the deck boasts immense card draw and mana velocity, it lacks cheap instant-speed protection and stack interaction, making its critical turns vulnerable to counterspells and well-timed removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathgreeter
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Encroaching Dragonstorm
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Font of Agonies
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Heartbeat of Spring
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hour of Promise
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vedalken Orrery
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Weather the Storm
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Woodland Chasm
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician