Witherbloom Pestilence - Upgraded by Ott01

Format: Commander

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari Aristocrats and Lifegain Midrange strategy commanded by Dina, Essence Brewer. The deck focuses on creating disposable creature tokens, sacrificing them for card draw and life gain, and wearing down opponent life totals through drain triggers. In the early game, cheap token producers like Bitterbloom Bearer and Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia feed Dina, Essence Brewer and Skullclamp to maintain steady card flow. As the game develops, mass token generators such as Tendershoot Dryad and Pest Infestation build a formidable presence. The deck closes games around turn 8 using overrun effects from Blossoming Bogbeast alongside death triggers from Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance, and Zulaport Cutthroat. It also includes a two-card infinite combo between Basking Broodscale and Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest that generates infinite mana and lethal power.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creakwood Liege
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Daemogoth Titan
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 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 Feral Appetite
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 High Market
  • 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 Mycoloth
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ominous Harvest
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragedy Feaster
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Witherbloom Campus
  • 1 Withering Curse
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat