Witherbloom Pestilence

Bracket 2

SOC — Secrets of Strixhaven Commander · 2026-04-24

Commander: Dina, Essence Brewer · Color identity: BG

Bracket

Power Level

4.6/10

Tipping Point

Game Changers

Why this bracket?

3 life-drain payoffs + 10 sacrifice outlets — a repeatable table-draining engine — but the goldfish sim wins around turn 7 (Bracket 2 "Core" pace, ~8+ turns), not the ~6-7 of an Upgraded deck, so this theme engine alone does not floor Bracket 3
Borderline verdict — close to B3: the measured goldfish clock (average hand wins turn 7) is one turn from Upgraded pace
High optimization — score 25/75 (10 card-advantage sources, 10 interaction spells, 1 fast-mana sources) — raises this deck above its hard floor
Engine accuracy reference: 100% bracket-in-range across 36 validation decks (engine beats Claude Sonnet/Opus/Haiku on bracket-exact).

How it compares

Against the 5 Secrets of Strixhaven Commander decks we analyzed, this is 2nd strongest — power 4.6 versus a set average of 4.5. That is about average for the library (4.7 across 58 precons). Its Tipping Point lands on turn 3, 1 turn earlier than the library median of turn 4.

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Dina, Essence Brewer's colour identity, none over $20, and none of them a Game Changer, so none forces a Bracket 3 floor on its own. Adding cards can still move the bracket: paste the updated list back into the calculator to re-check.

Fellwar Stone Ramp $0.81
Mind Stone Ramp $0.34
Wayfarer's Bauble Ramp $0.34
Kodama's Reach Ramp $1.52
Nature's Lore Ramp $2.33
Rampant Growth Ramp $0.45

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $5.79

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Dina, Essence Brewer
1 Gorma, the Gullet
1 Merchant of Venom
1 Defiling Daemogoth
1 Ominous Harvest
1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
1 Feral Appetite
1 Pest Rescuer
1 Ribtruss Roaster
1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
1 Immoral Bargain
1 Turbulent Fen
1 Ophiomancer
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Tendershoot Dryad
1 Fabled Passage
1 Blight Mound
1 Bloodghast
1 Final Act
1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
1 Nether Traitor
1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
1 Smothering Abomination
1 Veinwitch Coven
1 Witch of the Moors
1 Woe Strider
1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
1 Awakening Zone
1 Blossoming Bogbeast
1 Gilded Goose
1 Mycoloth
1 Ohran Frostfang
1 Pest Infestation
1 Trudge Garden
1 Assassin's Trophy
1 Beledros Witherbloom
1 Casualties of War
1 Creakwood Liege
1 Culling Ritual
1 Gyome, Master Chef
1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
1 Wight of the Reliquary
1 Witherbloom Command
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Festering Thicket
1 Grim Backwoods
1 High Market
1 Llanowar Wastes
1 Necroblossom Snarl
1 Temple of Malady
1 Twilight Mire
1 Vernal Fen
1 Viridescent Bog
1 Woodland Cemetery
1 Arcane Signet
1 Sol Ring
1 Command Tower
1 Teacher's Pest
1 Witherbloom Charm
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Titan's Grave
1 Blood Artist
1 Infernal Grasp
1 Morbid Opportunist
1 Night's Whisper
1 Pawn of Ulamog
1 Plumb the Forbidden
1 Umbral Collar Zealot
1 Viscera Seer
1 Zulaport Cutthroat
1 Cultivate
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Springbloom Druid
1 Deadly Brew
1 Dina, Soul Steeper
1 Moldervine Reclamation
1 Mortality Spear
1 Haywire Mite
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Haunted Mire
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Study Hall
1 Witherbloom Campus
4 Swamp
4 Swamp
4 Forest
4 Forest

Bracket assignment per WotC Commander Brackets Beta. Decklist sourced from MTGJSON (https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/decks/WitherbloomPestilence_SOC.json). Analyzed against https://scrollvault.net on 2026-08-07.