when I played my first ever, in air quotes, CDH game, it was with Beledros Witherbloom, the original commander from Strixhaven, which is spiritually similar, I think, to Witherbloom the Balancer in that it wants you to slam the commander and then pump an enormous amount of mana into giant spells.
However, it is way less efficient at doing it, to the point of being downright unplayable.
I sat down, it was with Ken, on Kirk, Sakashima, and a few other, you know, various, at that time, what the meta was decks.
And I, I played this Beledros Witherbloom list where the whole deck was predicated on casting the commander and then winning with Torments of Hellfire.
It had, like, the big Modern Horizon one that took, like, 10 lands out of your deck and put them all into play.
when I played my first ever, in air quotes, CDH game, it was with Beledros Witherbloom, the original commander from Strixhaven, which is spiritually similar, I think, to Witherbloom the Balancer in that it wants you to slam the commander and then pump an enormous amount of mana into giant spells.
However, it is way less efficient at doing it, to the point of being downright unplayable.
I sat down, it was with Ken, on Kirk, Sakashima, and a few other, you know, various, at that time, what the meta was decks.
And I, I played this Beledros Witherbloom list where the whole deck was predicated on casting the commander and then winning with Torments of Hellfire.
It had, like, the big Modern Horizon one that took, like, 10 lands out of your deck and put them all into play.
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