Szarel MLD by DomSanctus

Format: Commander

Commander: Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Jund lands and resource-denial strategy commanded by Szarel, Genesis Shepherd. The primary game plan accelerates mana using low-cost dorks and enchantments, establishes graveyard land recursion, and deploys asymmetric mass land destruction spells to lock opponents out of the game. Once lands are wiped, Szarel and redundant effects like Crucible of Worlds allow the pilot to replay lands every turn, triggering sacrifice payoffs and placing +1/+1 counters on attackers. Threats like Titania, Protector of Argoth, The Gitrog Monster, and Korvold, Fae-Cursed King generate rapid card advantage and lethal creature tokens. Protection spells like Heroic Intervention, Mithril Coat, and Sylvan Safekeeper ensure that your board survives your own global sweepers. The deck closes games swiftly against resource-starved opponents through compounding combat damage or a high-value Torment of Hailfire.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Army Ants
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bend or Break
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Boom // Bust
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Combustion Man
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Death Cloud
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Devastation
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Impending Disaster
  • 1 Jokulhaups
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Lord Windgrace
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mina and Denn, Wildborn
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Obliterate
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pillage
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Ruination
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Silverclad Ferocidons
  • 1 Soul of New Phyrexia
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
  • 1 Tectonic Break
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wake of Destruction
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Worldslayer
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground