This is a Witherbloom lifegain and Pest deck. Beledros Witherbloom adds a Pest token every upkeep, each player's included. Many other cards also make Pests, and when those 1/1s die or attack they gain life. That steady stream of small lifegain triggers drains opponents and pumps creatures. Beledros' pay-10-life land untap, once per turn, turns a big life total into extra mana for double-spell turns and large X spells. How it wins: The deck wins by gaining life over and over while lifegain-to-drain creatures and death triggers bleed the table, backed by Pest tokens grown by counters and anthems and finished off with a big Exsanguinate or a Pest swarm swinging in. Key roles: - Pest production: Steady 1/1 tokens that gain life when they die or attack, giving sacrifice fodder, chump blockers and a stream of lifegain triggers (Pest Summoning, Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones, Tend the Pests) - Lifegain into drain: Every small life gain becomes life loss for each opponent, and the extra-life replacement effects add even more triggers on top (Marauding Blight-Priest, Dina, Soul Steeper, Honor Troll) - Aristocrats sacrifice: Free sacrifice outlets and death-trigger pieces turn dying Pests into drain, life and cards, often while making replacement Pests (Cauldron of Essence, Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist, Viscera Seer) - Pest tribal growth: Lifegain-keyed counters and attack bonuses make the token swarm a real combat threat, adding evasion or deathtouch on the attack (Blech, Loafing Pest, Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root, Comforting Counsel) - Lifegain-fueled recursion and cards: Gaining life brings creatures back from the graveyard, and creature deaths draw cards, which keeps the engine refilled (Moseo, Vein's New Dean, Veinwitch Coven, Moldervine Reclamation) - Spells and prepare payoffs: Cheap instants and sorceries, plus prepared spell copies that rearm when life is gained, trigger magecraft drain and storm lifegain. A large life total spent through Beledros' untap feeds the finisher (Witherbloom Apprentice, Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood, Exsanguinate)

Beledros Witherbloom decklist

• Arcane Signet
• Cauldron of Essence
• Golgari Signet
• Pestilent Cauldron // Restorative Burst
• Sol Ring
• Blighted Woodland
• Command Tower
• 14× Forest
• Golgari Rot Farm
• Jungle Hollow
• Necroblossom Snarl
• Subterranean Cavern
• 14× Swamp
• Witherbloom Campus
• Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
• Blech, Loafing Pest
• Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex
• Bogwater Lumaret
• Dina, Soul Steeper
• Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
• Essenceknit Scholar
• Gala Greeters
• Honor Troll
• Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
• Marauding Blight-Priest
• Moseo, Vein's New Dean
• Pest Mascot
• Pest Rescuer
• Pestbrood Sloth
• Poison-Tip Archer
• Sakura-Tribe Elder
• Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
• Shopkeeper's Bane
• Starscape Cleric
• Teacher's Pest
• Troop of Ponies
• Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root
• Veinwitch Coven
• Viscera Seer
• Witherbloom Apprentice
• Witherbloom Pledgemage
• Bastion of Remembrance
• Blight Mound
• Comforting Counsel
• Feral Appetite
• Moldervine Reclamation
• Beast Within
• Deathsprout
• Dina's Guidance
• Infuse with Vitality
• Mortality Spear
• Plumb the Forbidden
• Putrefy
• Tend the Pests
• Village Rites
• Weather the Storm
• Witherbloom Charm
• Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
• Culling Ritual
• Cultivate
• Deadly Brew
• Exsanguinate
• Farseek
• Feed the Swarm
• Grapple with Death
• Harmonize
• Hunt for Specimens
• Oracle's Restoration
• Pest Summoning
• Pull from the Grave
• Rampant Growth
• Swamp
• Forest