Witherbloom Threecycling (EDH / Commander) [Revision 51]

Lifegain lands storm. Our plan is to get big value by storming off with a lot of lifegain.

I like life in this deck.

Slippery Bogbonder is neat. Why? It's literally the best protection spell ever. You can cast it on someone else's turn, even with your lands untapped (assuming witherbloom is out)

We have a minor token theme with Nadier's Nightblade, Gala Greeters, Creakwood Liege, and Chatterfang, Squirrel General. This can be used with say pontiff of blight for absurd extorts to rapidly drain the board to death. Blossoming Bogbeast can also act as a great overrun effect, as we can pretty easily gain enough life to kill the board in one go.

We have a lot of "play lands off the top" guys. Courser of Kruphix, Augur of Autumn, Bolas's Citadel, and Oracle of Mul Daya all say "play lands off the top". This is remarkably nice, as it means we can hit land drops practically every turn, and increase the likelihood that we hit complete gas on our draw steps. Who cares if people can see our cards? We're going to cook them faster than they can stop us.

Powerful lifegain combo is Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Roots of Life. Turns out when everyone has swamps, you get a lot of life!

We barely run nonbasic lands... Why? Because Cabal Stronghold cares a lot about basic swamps... And wouldn't you know, Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth makes even our basic forests into swamps (that are still basic!) (Oh my!).

There are plenty of ways to recur Beledros Witherbloom from the graveyard, thus having all the mana in the world. With the ability to gain enough life to cover the cost it is infinite. Easy ways to do this are with Veinwitch Coven or Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity. From there you can usually find some way to drain out the table.

No Sol Ring / Fast Mana. It's unexciting, and I think it's more interesting to build into a winning board state. As a player I have moved away from sol ring in some decks (especially green decks) as I feel they already ramp good.