Golgari Spellslinger Is a Thing Now?! | Witherbloom [Video Guide] by user8293524

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Golgari token-swarm value deck helmed by Witherbloom, the Balancer, built around the Elder Dragon's affinity for creatures to cheat out massive X-spells and finishers. The strategy is straightforward: flood the board with cheap creatures and token producers, cast Witherbloom heavily discounted by your creature count, then leverage that same affinity to fire off game-ending spells like Finale of Devastation, Genesis Wave, Torment of Hailfire, and Exsanguinate. The primary win path is the classic go-wide overrun - a huge board powered up by Craterhoof Behemoth or a high-X Finale of Devastation - with Biorhythm and massive drain spells as alternate finishers that exploit the same creature-count advantage. The commander is the mana engine that makes the whole plan hum, reducing every instant and sorcery in the deck by your creature total.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Ancient Craving
  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Biorhythm
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Cabal Conditioning
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Chittering Dispatcher
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Defend the Rider
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dregs of Sorrow
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grow from the Ashes
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Increasing Ambition
  • 1 Khalni Garden
  • 1 Life // Death
  • 1 Lifestream's Blessing
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Majestic Genesis
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Plague Wind
  • 1 Plague of Vermin
  • 1 Praetor's Counsel
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rude Awakening
  • 1 Saproling Symbiosis
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Sinkhole Surveyor
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 3 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 2 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Sprout Swarm
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 1 Super Combo
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Offering
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Weaponcraft Enthusiast
  • 1 Welcome the Dead
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth