burn by woolfy

Format: Commander

Commander: Yurlok of Scorch Thrash

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This deck is a group-slug mana-burn strategy helmed by Yurlok of Scorch Thrash. The primary plan is to force extra mana onto every player through cards like Heartbeat of Spring, Mana Flare, and Dictate of Karametra, then punish opponents for having unspent mana via Yurlok's own ability, Citadel of Pain, Power Surge, and Manabarbs. The deck also includes symmetrical damage effects like Overabundance and Sulfuric Vortex to accelerate life totals downward. Win conditions are large X-spells (Exsanguinate, Comet Storm, Jaya's Immolating Inferno), the alternate win condition Helix Pinnacle, and incremental drain from Yurlok and Zhur-Taa Druid. The commander is a key payoff but the deck can still function without him thanks to other punishment pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Ancient Craving
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Belbe, Corrupted Observer
  • 1 Blinkmoth Urn
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Burning Earth
  • 1 Casualties of War
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Cindervines
  • 1 Citadel of Pain
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crawling Barrens
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deglamer
  • 1 Dictate of Karametra
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eladamri's Vineyard
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Heartbeat of Spring
  • 1 Helix Pinnacle
  • 1 Hex
  • 1 Horizon Stone
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Instill Energy
  • 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Klauth's Will
  • 1 Lavalanche
  • 1 Leyline Tyrant
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Magus of the Candelabra
  • 1 Magus of the Vineyard
  • 1 Mana Flare
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nightshade Harvester
  • 1 Overabundance
  • 1 Plague Wind
  • 1 Power Surge
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
  • 1 Sire of Insanity
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Searchlight
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Stoneshaker Shaman
  • 1 Sulfuric Vortex
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Svella, Ice Shaper
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tangleroot
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Underworld Connections
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Veteran Explorer
  • 1 Victory Chimes
  • 1 War's Toll
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Ancient
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Druid