Szarel, Astroganga by user4173956

Format: Commander

Commander: Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Jund Landfall and graveyard recursion engine led by Szarel, Genesis Shepherd. It leverages sacrifice lands, self-mill, and land-sacrifice spells to rapidly accelerate its mana base while generating consistent card advantage directly from the graveyard. Szarel turns every sacrificed nontoken permanent into explosive +1/+1 counters, transforming utility creatures and token swarms into massive threats. The primary game plan ramps aggressively in the first three turns, deploys a recursion engine on Turn 4, and establishes an overwhelming board state on Turn 6 using token producers like Scute Swarm, Avenger of Zendikar, and Titania, Protector of Argoth. It closes the game on Turn 8 through wide combat damage, supplemented by extra combat phases from Moraug, Fury of Akoum and direct damage from Chandra's Ignition. Highly resilient to removal thanks to redundant graveyard enablers and Sylvan Safekeeper, the deck outvalues opponents through continuous land-based card flow.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Binding the Old Gods
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Eumidian Hatchery
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hearthhull, the Worldseed
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Lord Windgrace
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mirrodin's Core
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Rocky Tar Pit
  • 1 Roiling Regrowth
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul of Windgrace
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
  • 1 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The Mending of Dominaria
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Champion
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Vivid Crag
  • 1 Worldsoul's Rage
  • 1 Wrenn and Seven
  • 1 Zendikar Resurgent