land is bad by user3341640

Format: Commander

Commander: Yurlok of Scorch Thrash

Bracket: 1

Deck overview

This is a Jund group-slug "mana-burn" deck helmed by Yurlok of Scorch Thrash. The core plan is to hand every player extra mana - via Mana Flare, Zhur-Taa Ancient, Dictate of Karametra, Heartbeat of Spring, Magus of the Vineyard, and Eladamri's Vineyard - then punish them for tapping lands and for holding unspent mana. Yurlok of Scorch Thrash's own activated ability dumps {B}{R}{G} into each player's pool, and his static ability converts any unspent mana into life loss. The damage is amplified by land-count burn (Price of Progress, Manabarbs, Burning Earth, Citadel of Pain, Acidic Soil, Zo-Zu the Punisher) and doubled by Wound Reflection, Archfiend of Despair, Bloodletter of Aclazotz, and Solphim, Mayhem Dominus. A secondary combat channel exists through land-count beaters like Elturel Survivors, Wilderness Elemental, and Avatar of Fury. The deck has no true infinite combo - Exquisite Blood and Bloodthirsty Conqueror are redundant life-gain triggers, not a loop.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Soil
  • 1 Anathemancer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avatar of Fury
  • 1 Avatar of Growth
  • 1 Barbflare Gremlin
  • 1 Belbe, Corrupted Observer
  • 1 Blinkmoth Urn
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Burning Earth
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Citadel of Pain
  • 1 Clear the Land
  • 1 Collective Voyage
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darigaaz's Caldera
  • 1 Dictate of Karametra
  • 1 Dormant Volcano
  • 1 Eladamri's Vineyard
  • 1 Elturel Survivors
  • 1 Everglades
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Ghirapur Orrery
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Guildless Commons
  • 1 Heartbeat of Spring
  • 1 Heartwood Storyteller
  • 1 Hired Giant
  • 1 Horizon Stone
  • 1 Ignition Team
  • 1 Jungle Basin
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Keeper of Progenitus
  • 1 Leyline Tyrant
  • 1 Magus of the Candelabra
  • 1 Magus of the Vineyard
  • 1 Mana Flare
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 New Frontiers
  • 1 Nightshade Harvester
  • 1 Old-Growth Dryads
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Mana
  • 1 Overabundance
  • 1 Pallimud
  • 1 Pir's Whim
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Primal Order
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rivalry
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Rootweaver Druid
  • 1 Rug of Smothering
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Skyshroud War Beast
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spectral Searchlight
  • 1 Spiteful Repossession
  • 1 Sunspine Lynx
  • 1 Surveyor's Scope
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Great Aurora
  • 1 Ticket Tortoise
  • 1 Treacherous Terrain
  • 1 Tunnel Ignus
  • 1 Twisted Landscape
  • 1 Veteran Explorer
  • 1 Victory Chimes
  • 1 Wild Evocation
  • 1 Wilderness Elemental
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Ancient
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Druid
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
  • 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher