No Lands for You by MaQleod

Format: Commander

Commander: Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated Jund Ponza and Land Destruction control strategy commanded by Szarel, Genesis Shepherd. The primary game plan focuses on deploying early mana acceleration and additional land-drop enablers such as Exploration and Azusa, Lost but Seeking, followed by deploying graveyard land recursion engines like Szarel, Crucible of Worlds, and Conduit of Worlds. Once recursion is established, the deck transitions into aggressive resource denial by casting targeted land destruction spells and decisive mass land wipes like Ruination, Keldon Firebombers, or cycling Decree of Annihilation. Because the deck continuously replays lands from the graveyard, it breaks symmetry and maintains a commanding mana advantage while opponents are locked out of basic resources. With opposing development halted, the deck finishes the game through combat damage using large threats like Fin Fang Foom, Helldozer, Waking the Trolls, or +1/+1 counters distributed by Szarel across several attack steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alien Invasion
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Army Ants
• 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1 Badlands
• 1 Bayou
• 1 Befoul
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blazemire Verge
• 1 Blight
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Break the Ice
• 1 Cabal Ritual
• 1 Casualties of War
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Cleansing Wildfire
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conduit of Worlds
• 1 Creeping Mold
• 1 Crucible of Worlds
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Decree of Annihilation
• 1 Demolition Field
• 1 Despoil
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dust Bowl
• 1 Dwarven Landslide
• 1 Dwarven Miner
• 1 Encroaching Wastes
• 1 Exploration
• 1 Exploration Broodship
• 1 Field of Ruin
• 1 Fin Fang Foom
• 1 Fissure
• 4 Forest
• 1 Frenzied Tilling
• 1 Geosurge
• 1 Gnottvold Slumbermound
• 1 Helldozer
• 1 Hugs, Grisly Guardian
• 1 Ice Storm
• 1 Icequake
• 1 Implode
• 1 Keldon Firebombers
• 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
• 1 Lotus Vale
• 1 Memorial to War
• 1 Mina and Denn, Wildborn
• 1 Mine Layer
• 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
• 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
• 1 Molten Rain
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Obsidian Charmaw
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Pyretic Ritual
• 1 Rain of Tears
• 1 Rain of Thorns
• 1 Raze
• 1 Roiling Terrain
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Rubble Reading
• 1 Ruination
• 1 Seething Song
• 1 Sinkhole
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Stone Rain
• 1 Stream of Acid
• 1 Strip Mine
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Sylvan Caryatid
• 1 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
• 1 Taiga
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Tainted Wood
• 1 The Coming of Galactus
• 1 Thermokarst
• 1 Thornspire Verge
• 1 Thresher Beast
• 1 Trench Wurm
• 1 Vandalize
• 1 Waking the Trolls
• 1 Wasteland
• 1 Wastewood Verge
• 1 Wayward Swordtooth
• 1 Winter's Grasp
• 1 Woodland Cemetery