Withering Masses (2) by AtrumUnum

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This Golgari deck leverages Witherbloom, the Balancer to turn a wide board of creature tokens into massive cost reductions for instant and sorcery spells. Early turns establish a low-cost creature curve featuring mana dorks, Bitterbloom Bearer, and Sedgemoor Witch. Once the commander enters the battlefield for just {B}{G} via creature affinity, high-impact spells like Shamanic Revelation, In Garruk's Wake, and Diabolic Revelation cost only their colored pips. The deck closes games decisively on Turn 5 using three main avenues: generating lethal life loss with an affinity-reduced Torment of Hailfire or Exsanguinate, assembling the compact Witherbloom Apprentice and Chain of Smog infinite magecraft drain combo, or dropping a game-ending Craterhoof Behemoth with convoke or harmonize tutors. Resilient backup lines through Beledros Witherbloom ensure the deck can pivot smoothly if the commander is removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Cellarspawn
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Attempted Murder
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Chatterstorm
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Day of Black Sun
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Diabolic Revelation
  • 1 Doomsday Confluence
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Erebos's Intervention
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 For the Common Good
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Great Arashin City
  • 1 Green Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Lab Rats
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Noxious Newt
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Profane Command
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Slice from the Shadows
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of Freyalise
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Sprout Swarm
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Suffer the Past
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery