Witherbloom Apprentice

Creature — Human Druid

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (28)

DreadKhan on Legacy Mono Black Reanimator 04-02-2025

1 month ago

I've always loved Reanimator in Legacy, it's crazy to see how much it's changed over the years! We've come a long way from Deep Spawn! It's cool that Animate Dead still makes the cut.

A lot of decks like this sneak in a Children of Korlis to recoop all life already paid to Griselbrand (thus letting you draw that much over again). FWIW I think Children would make Borborygmos Enraged a better card since Children can help you draw your entire deck, potentially letting you win on your first turn (if you're lucky enough).

I think there wouldn't be much opportunity cost to throwing in a single Scrubland (and some Fetches to find it), but that's a huge budget jump, but if you want to play at tournaments I think Children are a really high ceiling include potentially. That said I'd include Children even if you don't have any lands able to cast them, they're a great reanimation target in my experience.

I think this is an efficient and threatening deck; being able to switch to Discard vs opposing combo decks seems pretty sweet. I could see Surgical Extraction in your sideboard, not sure how many would make sense, maybe x2. I'm a lot less sure about this, but maybe you should add x1 Witherbloom Apprentice from your Maybeboard, even x1 with x4 Entomb should be enough to get by.

legendofa on EDH Pauper Suggestions

11 months ago

Hasn't seen live play in forever, so it's probably outdated, but this is my Witherbloom Apprentice deck.

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Pauper EDH legendofa

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It's Golgari spellslinger, which I thought was a good twist on Izzet spellslinger. Resilient and good combo potential, but pretty slow and reactive.

Outside of that, I don't have a ton of great advice. I made that deck for a little wave of local PDH popularity that didn't really stick around.

AscendedLandfalls on Korvold

2 years ago

Not sure what your budget is like but a powerful combo and not too expensive could be: Witherbloom Apprentice + Chain of Smog.

A classic combo could be Food Chain + Squee, the Immortal

An it's always good to have Dockside Extortionist if budget allows.

legendofa on Witherbloom Apprentice (PDH Multiplayer)

3 years ago

I'm thinking about getting into Pauper Commander, and starting with Witherbloom Apprentice. I'm taking some good ideas from this one.

Flagellum on Need help deciding on a …

3 years ago

I'm stuck between two different strategies and for each of them I'm stuck between mono color or dual color commanders. Im looking at a pain/punisher deck or a lifegain matters deck. What I need is advice on which of the two commanders you think would fair better for each strategy and why. Which of the two to go with I will have to figure out myself. Budget generally is less than $10-15 a card but cheaper is always better :) I do have most of the more expensive staples (think Craterhoof Behemoth, Wheel of Fortune, Demonic Tutor ect.) however.

Pain:

Torbran, Thane of Red Fell vs Mogis, God of Slaughter: this is a pain/burn/punisher deck. My question is, is the addition of black with admittedly more pain options and tutors/draw worth Torbran's ability to break parity? They'd run the same gambit of cards for the most part but Spellshock is much more damming with Torbran out and readily available. Mogis would run Torbran in the 99 though.

Lifegain Matters:

Dina, Soul Steeper vs Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose: again both like lifegain but Dina prefers quantity over quality whereas Vito is the opposite. I do not own Exquisite Blood (my idiot self traded it away years ago) so that combo probably isn't going to be included. However I am aware of Dina's combo with Witherbloom Apprentice and Chain of Smog which I can pull together. Vito with Blood Tribute will one shot an opponent. You could also run a lifelink creature and pump it with +1/+1 counters through Unspeakable Symbol to gain a ton of life and dome someone with Vito. I also own Aetherflux Reservoir so I can death star someone down with either commander. Crypt Rats with lifelink could also cause some huge shenanigans with Vito.

I've built and play tested some preliminary decks (on tappedout) and I'm leaning towards Torbran/Vito. Just need a slap of reality if I'm wrong :)

glhfJKiHax on The Whale Who Cried Wolf

3 years ago

Deck looks great.

I’m currently looking into making my own build and was wondering if you are still running this at all?

Also have you considered any updates recently?

In regards to wincon density have you considered the Chain of Smog and Witherbloom Apprentice lines? It was something I was considering to put in mine

glhfJKiHax on Cazur and Ukkima Food Chain

3 years ago

Have you considering adding another nice compact win-con in Chain of Smog + Witherbloom Apprentice?

Grubbernaut on What are some combos that …

3 years ago

My favorite thing is a forced draw with Thoracle trigger on the stack. A closer example to yours is Chain of Smog + Witherbloom Apprentice; you wait until they discard their hand, then counter/remove.