Ethans Witherbloom by nateolechowski39

Format: Commander

Commander: Witherbloom, the Balancer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Witherbloom, the Balancer is a single-faced, expensive dragon with affinity for creatures, so the deck floods the board with tokens and then casts cheaply discounted spells. The primary plan is a token-swarm midrange game: Avenger of Zendikar, Tendershoot Dryad, Chatterfang, and Scute Swarm build critical mass, while Witherbloom turns huge payoffs like Genesis Wave, Torment of Hailfire, and Finale of Devastation into near-free spells. An efficient two-card combo-Witherbloom Apprentice plus Chain of Smog-provides an alternate instant win. Dina, Soul Steeper functions as a hidden secondary commander, converting the deck's incidental lifegain into damage. Overall, the commander is a cost-reducing finisher, not a required engine; the deck can win without casting it.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Animist's Awakening
• 1 Arachnogenesis
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Army of the Damned
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Awaken the Woods
• 1 Badgermole Cub
• 1 Beledros Witherbloom
• 1 Biorhythm
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
• 1 Blooming Marsh
• 1 Bogwater Lumaret
• 1 Chain of Smog
• 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1 Chord of Calling
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Damnable Pact
• 1 Dark Petition
• 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
• 1 Darksteel Plate
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Defend the Rider
• 1 Defense Grid
• 1 Diabolic Tutor
• 1 Dina's Guidance
• 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
• 1 Eldritch Immunity
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 1 Fog
• 7 Forest
• 1 Genesis Wave
• 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Harness Infinity
• 1 Imp's Mischief
• 1 In Garruk's Wake
• 1 Infirmary Healer // Stream of Life
• 1 Jungle Hollow
• 1 Khalni Garden
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Ohran Frostfang
• 1 Outrageous Robbery
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Overwhelming Stampede
• 1 Pest Infestation
• 1 Pharika, God of Affliction
• 1 Professor Dellian Fel
• 1 Regrowth
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Saproling Migration
• 1 Saproling Symbiosis
• 1 Scute Swarm
• 1 Second Harvest
• 1 Sedgemoor Witch
• 1 Shamanic Revelation
• 1 Shared Roots
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sprout Swarm
• 2 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
• 11 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Talisman of Resilience
• 1 Tendershoot Dryad
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Titan's Grave
• 1 Torment of Hailfire
• 1 Veil of Summer
• 1 Verdant Command
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Wander Off
• 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
• 1 Witherbloom Charm
• 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
• 1 Woodland Chasm