Handmade Deck (Gage) by Nephilim

Format: Commander

Creator: Nephilim

Commander: Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Golgari deck leverages creature-heavy graveyard scaling and sacrifice synergies led by Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord. The primary strategy develops mana through dorks and land enchantments, fills the graveyard using self-mill and creature combat, and deploys high-power threats. Once a massive board or a colossal creature enters play, Jarad converts excess power into direct, unblockable life loss across all opponents simultaneously. The deck can also execute an instant knockout by attacking with Jumbo Cactuar to boost its power to 10,000 before sacrificing it to Jarad during combat. Secondary wins include overwhelmed combat attacks backed by trample enablers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Growth
  • 1 Aggressive Instinct
  • 1 Aggressive Mammoth
  • 1 Ankle Biter
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Biogenic Upgrade
  • 1 Bite Down
  • 1 Bleed Dry
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bramble Wurm
  • 1 Broken Wings
  • 1 Citanul Hierophants
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Conduit Pylons
  • 1 Curse of Bounty
  • 1 Deadly Derision
  • 1 Deadly Plot
  • 1 Demonic Gifts
  • 1 Dormant Grove // Gnarled Grovestrider
  • 1 Dreg Recycler
  • 1 Drumhunter
  • 1 Elder Gargaroth
  • 1 Elvish Aberration
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Etched Familiar
  • 1 Etched Host Doombringer
  • 1 Failed Conversion
  • 1 Fang of Shigeki
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Felling Blow
  • 1 Flitting Guerrilla
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Full Steam Ahead
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Grizzly Ghoul
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Harvest Season
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Holdout Settlement
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Host of the Hereafter
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Karametra's Favor
  • 1 Leafkin Druid
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mirrodin Avenged
  • 1 Moldgraf Millipede
  • 1 Moment of Craving
  • 1 Mulch
  • 1 Nature's Embrace
  • 1 New Horizons
  • 1 Nightshade Dryad
  • 1 Retrieve
  • 1 Rise of the Varmints
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Skeleton Archer
  • 1 Slate of Ancestry
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Tumbleweed Rising
  • 1 Uncharted Haven
  • 1 Unseal the Necropolis
  • 1 Untamed Hunger
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Wildsize
  • 1 Wildwood Scourge