Witherbloom Command
Sorcery
Choose two —
• Target player mills three cards, then you return a land card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Destroy target noncreature, nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less.
• Target creature gets -3/-1 until end of turn.
• Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages Promos
- Price
- $1.12
- EDHREC rank
- #9239
Witherbloom Command does four things for two mana — mill two, kill a small creature, destroy a noncreature permanent, or drain two life — and in the right deck you're picking two of those modes simultaneously. Dina, Essence Brewer turns every life-drain trigger into a damage vector, which makes the mill-plus-drain pairing genuinely threatening rather than merely efficient.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Dina, Essence Brewer
Dina, Essence Brewer converts the life-drain mode of Witherbloom Command into direct damage, so the spell does double duty as both removal and a damage source — and if you've got a graveyard engine running, the mill two feeds it at the same time.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Witherbloom Command earns its slot in Golgari life-gain and graveyard shells by being modal enough to never be dead — there's almost always a creature worth killing, a problematic enchantment to answer, or a life total to chip. Competitive Commander lists skip it because the individual modes are too low-impact at a table where everyone has 40 life and broken permanents, but at a mid-power table the flexibility is real. In Modern and Pioneer it sees only fringe play, outcompeted by more efficient targeted removal and lacking the raw power to justify the restrictive two-color cost. Legacy and Vintage barely register it — the formats move too fast for a two-mana spell that doesn't win the game on the spot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.12 cheap tier
At $1.12, Witherbloom Command sits in the budget-staple tier where there's no reason to hesitate on buying in. Multimodal uncommons at this price point tend to hold steady — wide casual demand keeps the floor firm even if competitive play never picks it up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.