What should you cut from the Witherbloom Pestilence precon?
Witherbloom Pestilence is the Dina, Essence Brewer precon, released on April 24, 2026. We ran the stock deck through EDHTuner at bracket 2, the same check the tool runs on a deck you paste.
EDHTuner names no card to cut from this deck. EDHREC's data says other Dina, Essence Brewer decks often play the cards that looked weakest, so it leaves them in.
The deck is short on card advantage. The tool suggests cards to add there. This page shows no adds.
How this deck works
Dina, Essence Brewer leads an aristocrats deck that also leans on lifegain and graveyard value. Its main plan to win is to drain the table. Its 100 cards include 37 lands, 10 ramp, 9 card advantage and 12 targeted disruption.
What bracket is it?
By Wizards' bracket rules, the Witherbloom Pestilence precon is bracket 1 or higher. It runs no Game Changers, mass land denial, extra-turn cards or two-card infinite combos.
The rules also ask how fast a deck wins and what it's built to do, and that part is for you and your table. The bracket checker page says how EDHTuner reads each rule.
How its counts compare
Each row counts the cards that do that job. The medians come from 18,414 public Commander decks on Moxfield, collected in July and November 2026. Moxfield puts 4,822 of them at brackets 1 and 2 and 6,057 at bracket 3. The deck numbers page says what each row counts. See how many lands Commander decks run, from the decks we counted.
| Witherbloom Pestilence | EDHTuner aims for | Median, brackets 1-2 | Median, bracket 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lands | 37 | Playtested in the tool | 36 | 35 |
| Ramp | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Card advantage | 9 | 12 | 9 | 10 |
| Targeted disruption | 12 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
| Mass disruption | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Protection | 1 | No set number | 2 | 3 |
Mass disruption: 1 covers a deck built on its own creatures.
Themes EDHTuner finds in it
EDHTuner reads a deck's themes from the rules text on its cards. These are the themes it shows for Witherbloom Pestilence.
- Aristocrats
- Lifegain
- Graveyard value
All 100 cards
These are the precon's cards, grouped by what EDHTuner counts them as. Two cards show in more than one group, because each one fits more than one of them.
Show the 100 cards
Commander
| Dina, Essence Brewer |
Lands, 37 cards
| Card | Copies |
|---|---|
| Bojuka Bog | 1 |
| Command Tower | 1 |
| Exotic Orchard | 1 |
| Fabled Passage | 1 |
| Festering Thicket | 1 |
| Forest | 8 |
| Grim Backwoods | 1 |
| Haunted Mire | 1 |
| High Market | 1 |
| Llanowar Wastes | 1 |
| Necroblossom Snarl | 1 |
| Path of Ancestry | 1 |
| Study Hall | 1 |
| Swamp | 8 |
| Temple of Malady | 1 |
| Terramorphic Expanse | 1 |
| Titan's Grave | 1 |
| Turbulent Fen | 1 |
| Twilight Mire | 1 |
| Vernal Fen | 1 |
| Viridescent Bog | 1 |
| Witherbloom Campus | 1 |
| Woodland Cemetery | 1 |
Ramp, 10 cards
| Arcane Signet | Awakening Zone | Cultivate |
| Elvish Mystic | Gilded Goose | Pawn of Ulamog |
| Sakura-Tribe Elder | Sol Ring | Springbloom Druid |
| Wight of the Reliquary |
Card advantage, 9 cards
| Dina, Essence Brewer | Grim Backwoods | Moldervine Reclamation |
| Morbid Opportunist | Night's Whisper | Ohran Frostfang |
| Plumb the Forbidden | Priest of Forgotten Gods | Smothering Abomination |
Targeted disruption, 12 cards
| Assassin's Trophy | Casualties of War | Deadly Brew |
| Haywire Mite | Immoral Bargain | Infernal Grasp |
| Merchant of Venom | Mortality Spear | Pest Infestation |
| Witch of the Moors | Witherbloom Charm | Witherbloom Command |
Mass disruption, 3 cards
| Culling Ritual | Final Act | Toxic Deluge |
Protection, 1 card
| Gyome, Master Chef |
Everything else, 29 cards
| Beledros Witherbloom | Blight Mound | Blood Artist |
| Bloodghast | Blossoming Bogbeast | Creakwood Liege |
| Defiling Daemogoth | Dina, Soul Steeper | Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones |
| Feral Appetite | Gorma, the Gullet | Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia |
| Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest | Mycoloth | Nether Traitor |
| Ominous Harvest | Ophiomancer | Pest Rescuer |
| Ribtruss Roaster | Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate | Teacher's Pest |
| Tendershoot Dryad | Trudge Garden | Umbral Collar Zealot |
| Veinwitch Coven | Viscera Seer | Woe Strider |
| Yahenni, Undying Partisan | Zulaport Cutthroat |
Run it yourself
The tool opens in a new tab and runs the stock deck at bracket 2. There you also get the cards it would add.
The Dina, Essence Brewer page shows what public Dina, Essence Brewer decks on Moxfield run. The guide to cutting cards shows how EDHTuner picks cuts. The precons page has every other precon EDHTuner checked.
Checked on November 9, 2026 with EDHTuner v0.248.0. The tool reads EDHREC's data each time it runs, and that data changes, so it can name different cuts than this page does. The precon's cards come from MTGJSON (MIT license). Card data comes from Scryfall and play data from EDHREC.