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Beledros Witherbloom

Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon

Flying
At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.

CMC
7
Mana cost
{5}{B}{G}
Color identity
BG
Rarity
mythic
Set
Strixhaven: School of Mages
Price
$21.67
EDHREC rank
#1574
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Beledros Witherbloom card art
Beledros Witherbloom puts a 4/4 flying token into play every upkeep and caps the game with a one-time untap of all your lands — paying 10 life to double your available mana for a turn is the kind of effect that ends games on the spot. The 7-mana ask is real, but once it resolves, even commanders as modest as Hazel's Brewmaster or Dina, Essence Brewer turn that land untap into a lethal combo window rather than just a tempo play.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Dina, Essence Brewer

Dina, Essence Brewer

79.0% of decks · synergy 0.68

Dina, Essence Brewer drains opponents every time you gain life, so Beledros Witherbloom's token production and the 10-life payment to untap lands feed a loop of triggers that can close out the table without ever attacking.

02
Blech, Loafing Pest

Blech, Loafing Pest

74.0% of decks · synergy 0.63

Blech, Loafing Pest cares about tokens and life-total manipulation, making Beledros Witherbloom's per-upkeep 4/4 and the life-payment untap precisely the two levers the deck wants to pull.

03
Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Betor, Ancestor's Voice

55.3% of decks · synergy 0.48

Betor, Ancestor's Voice rewards recurring token creation, and Beledros Witherbloom delivers a guaranteed 4/4 every upkeep — that's a consistent trigger engine that doesn't require any additional setup.

05
Hazel of the Rootbloom

Hazel of the Rootbloom

57.4% of decks · synergy 0.46

Hazel of the Rootbloom amplifies life-gain payoffs across Witherbloom strategies, and Beledros Witherbloom's untap ability turns a healthy life total into a massive mana burst that Hazel's high-cost payoffs are eager to cash in.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Beledros Witherbloom lives — the token generation is a continuous resource across a long multiplayer game, and the land-untap ability hits hardest when your board is already stacked with mana rocks and lands. In Legacy and Vintage it's too slow and too fragile for formats where interaction fires at instant speed before a seven-mana creature ever untaps. Modern and Pioneer have the same problem: Beledros Witherbloom asks for too much setup in formats where games end before turn seven is relevant. Oathbreaker can support it in the right life-gain shell, but the power ceiling is lower than in Commander where the untap ability can end a three-player game in a single turn.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

No single card does exactly what Beledros Witherbloom does, but Torrent of Souls and Nissa, Vital Force each attack one half of the package — token generation or land untapping — at a fraction of the price, with the obvious trade-off that you're splitting the effect across two slots rather than getting both stapled to one seven-mana body. If the land-untap is the piece you're after, Awakening costs under a dollar and hits every player's lands, which is dangerous but achievable in the right shell.

Price Context

Current price

$21.67 premium tier

At $21.67, Beledros Witherbloom sits firmly in the premium tier — justified by its unique combination of token generation and the land-untap ability, which has no direct analogue at a lower price point. Demand is stable given its Commander popularity, so the price is unlikely to crater, but it's not the kind of card you're buying as a pickup; you're paying for a specific engine.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.