Help: Upgrade for Witherbloom Witchcraft

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Lifegain

Anike

Creature (23)

• 1x Ageless Entity
• 1x Bloodthirsty Aerialist
• 1x Bloodtracker
• 1x Blossoming Bogbeast
• 1x Defiant Bloodlord
• 1x Dina, Soul Steeper
• 1x Epicure of Blood
• 1x Ezzaroot Channeler
• 1x Gluttonous Troll
• 1x Gyome, Master Chef
• 1x Honor Troll
• 1x Leyline Prowler
• 1x Marshland Bloodcaster
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Sapling of Colfenor
• 1x Silversmote Ghoul
• 1x Sproutback Trudge
• 1x Tivash, Gloom Summoner
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Veinwitch Coven
• 1x Verdant Sun's Avatar
• 1x Yedora, Grave Gardener

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Blight Mound
• 1x Gift of Paradise
• 1x Greed
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Trudge Garden

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited

Land (40)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 11x Forest
• 1x Gingerbread Cabin
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x High Market
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Radiant Fountain
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sapseep Forest
• 1x Study Hall
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Witch's Clinic
• 1x Witherbloom Campus

Artifact (12)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Druidic Satchel
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Paradise Plume
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sun Droplet
• 1x Talisman of Resilience
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Ancient Craving
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Damnable Pact
• 1x Deadly Tempest
• 1x Essence Pulse
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Gaze of Granite
• 1x Healing Technique
• 1x Nissa's Renewal
• 1x Pest Infestation
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Revival Experiment
• 1x Taste of Death

Instant (4)

• 1x Mortality Spear
• 1x Pulse of Murasa
• 1x Reckless Spite
• 1x Suffer the Past

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Maybeboard

Creature (10)

• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x God-Eternal Rhonas
• 1x Golgari Findbroker
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Orzhov Enforcer
• 1x Paradise Druid
• 1x Savvy Hunter
• 1x Thrashing Brontodon
• 1x Vindictive Vampire

Artifact (2)

• 1x Golgari Locket
• 1x Witch's Oven

Instant (9)

• 1x Appetite for the Unnatural
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Deathsprout
• 1x Essence Extraction
• 1x Naturalize
• 1x Pierce the Sky
• 1x Rush of Vitality
• 1x Status / Statue
• 1x Tribute to Hunger

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Broken Bond
• 1x Find / Finality
• 1x Prey Upon
• 1x Sovereign's Bite
• 1x Undercity Uprising
• 1x Vicious Rumors

Land (6)

• 1x Cryptic Caves
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 2x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Temple of Malady

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I just bought the Witherbloom Witchcraft Deck and am thinking about upgrading it aiming for Life Manipulation / Life Drain. I am the type of player that prefers to win without having to attack (love Oloro and the "don't mind me, just gaining life, drainig ya a bit and gonna crush you soon" game play) and thinking how to best incorporate that into this deck. So, generally I like a tentative not too aggressive approach cause I'm just getting comfortable with higher risk game-play. Sacrifice is fine, even better when I know that my lovely creatures are not gone for good; massive lifelink flyers also great. As I am currently more or less just playing against the Lorehold deck (damn Feldon and those dragons) a bit protection against that would be nice as well.

I already did some research but most of the suggested cards are just not available to me at the moment. The Maybeboard shows all the cards that I could get my hands on that I thought might work. But if you generally have recommendations, I'm happy for any guidance cause this is the first time of me actually constructing / upgrading a deck.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.87
Tokens	Demon X/X B, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Food, Fungus Beast 4/4 G, Pest 1/1 BG, Saproling 1/1 G