Not Exactly Landfall by ndoyle300

Format: Commander

Commander: Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This Simic deck leverages land animation and hand-size scaling under Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir. Early turns establish mana velocity through basic ramp spells and utility lands. On Turn 4, Jolrael turns lands into flying, hasty Bird creatures sized by your hand count, generating steady combat damage and card draw. Midgame development transitions into wide land-creature armies using Earthbend mechanics, Awaken the Woods, and Jyoti, Moag Ancient. The deck closes games around Turn 8 by executing wide, evasive combat swings backed by countermagic and mass animation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender
  • 1 Avatar of Burgeoning Echoes
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Badgermole
  • 1 Blinkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cactus Preserve
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Courser of Kruphix
  • 1 Cracked Earth Technique
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Doppelgang
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Earthbender Ascension
  • 1 Embrace the Paradox
  • 1 Emergent Sequence
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Heritage Reclamation
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir
  • 1 Jyoti, Moag Ancient
  • 1 Kamahl's Will
  • 1 Lessons from Life
  • 1 Lumbering Falls
  • 1 Marwyn, the Preserver
  • 1 Mishra's Factory
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 On the Trail
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Pick Your Poison
  • 1 Planar Engineering
  • 1 Planar Genesis
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rockalanche
  • 1 Rumble Arena
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Seismic Sense
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulstone Sanctuary
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Sylvan Advocate
  • 1 Tangled Islet
  • 1 Tanglepool Bridge
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tatyova, Steward of Tides
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
  • 1 The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Verdant Kraken
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Wilderness Reclamation
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Wrenn and Realmbreaker
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yedora, Grave Gardener