Szarel by ClemFandango

Format: Commander

Creator: ClemFandango

Commander: Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

Szarel, Genesis Shepherd helms a Jund lands-matter deck focused on leveraging the graveyard as an expansive resource pool. By sacrificing and recycling lands with cards like Harrow, Crop Rotation, and Zuran Orb, the deck triggers Szarel's ability to place large batches of +1/+1 counters onto key attackers while simultaneously fueling massive landfall engines. Heavy hitters such as Titania, Protector of Argoth, Scute Swarm, and Rampaging Baloths generate overwhelming token armies, while Mayhem Devil, Iridescent Vinelasher, and Hearthhull, the Worldseed turn sacrifice and landfall triggers into direct life loss. High-volume recursion pieces including Splendid Reclamation, Lumra, Bellow of the Woods, and Conduit of Worlds ensure that self-mill and sacrificed lands translate directly into board presence and mana surplus. While vulnerable to early graveyard exile and lacking stack interaction, the deck presents exceptional late-game inevitability through resilient resource loops and wide combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Argoth, Sanctum of Nature
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blast Zone
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Eumidian Hatchery
  • 1 Eusocial Engineering
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Famished Worldsire
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 God-Eternal Bontu
  • 1 Hammer of Purphoros
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Heart of Yavimaya
  • 1 Hearthhull, the Worldseed
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Iridescent Vinelasher
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Rocky Tar Pit
  • 1 Sabotender
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scouring Swarm
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sledge-Class Seedship
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul of Windgrace
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Awakening
  • 1 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
  • 1 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Titania, Voice of Gaea
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Twisted Landscape
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Uurg, Spawn of Turg
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Windgrace's Judgment
  • 1 Worldsoul's Rage
  • 1 Ygra, Eater of All
  • 1 Zuran Orb