Szarel by TemurRoar

Format: Commander

Commander: Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered Jund lands-matter strategy commanded by Szarel, Genesis Shepherd. The game plan revolves around leveraging the graveyard as an extended resource zone by repeatedly sacrificing and replaying lands. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with efficient pieces like Lotus Cobra, Orcish Lumberjack, and Nature's Lore. Once Szarel, Genesis Shepherd enters the battlefield on Turn 4 or 5, every sacrificed land pumps supporting creatures with +1/+1 counters while being replayed seamlessly from the graveyard. The deck rapidly compounds power, turning land recursion into an overwhelming win condition on Turn 6. Table-wide finishers include flinging massive creatures with Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, burning the table with Chandra's Ignition, or chaining multiple attack steps with Moraug, Fury of Akoum. Excellent card draw engines like The Gitrog Monster and Korvold, Fae-Cursed King, paired with defensive tools like Sylvan Safekeeper and Constant Mists, give the deck high resilience and reliable redundancy.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Baloth Prime
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brawn
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cryptic Caves
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evendo Brushrazer
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Famished Worldsire
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Fires of Yavimaya
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Hammer of Purphoros
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mightform Harmonizer
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nahiri's Lithoforming
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nylea, God of the Hunt
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Primal Witchstalker
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Roiling Canopy
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Soul Immolation
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Sprouting Goblin
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Zuran Orb