Yarok TNM by das-katzen

Format: Commander

Commander: Yarok, the Desecrated

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai Midrange engine helmed by Yarok, the Desecrated, focused on extracting overwhelming value from enter-the-battlefield (ETB) and landfall triggers. In the early game, the deck uses efficient land-fetching creatures and ramp spells to fix colors and accelerate mana. Once Yarok enters the battlefield, every subsequent creature and land drop doubles in efficiency. Card draw engines like Mulldrifter and Risen Reef rapidly refill the hand, while removal creatures like Ravenous Chupacabra and Acidic Slime dismantle opposing boards. The deck establishes dominant board presence through token-generating payoffs such as Rampaging Baloths and Gruff Triplets. It closes games by overrunning opponents with End-Raze Forerunners or by executing an infinite flicker loop using Peregrine Drake, Eternal Witness, and Ghostly Flicker. Although vulnerable to ETB-stifling stax pieces and board sweepers, the deck possesses resilient recursion engines that enable swift recovery.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Clifftop Lookout
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Displace
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elvish Rejuvenator
  • 1 Elvish Visionary
  • 1 End-Raze Forerunners
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Foundation Breaker
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Gruff Triplets
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Khalni Heart Expedition
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Omen of the Dead
  • 1 Oran-Rief Hydra
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Retreat to Hagra
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Slippery Bogbonder
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
  • 1 Villainous Wealth
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated
  • 1 Yavimaya Dryad