Gardening B4 by tharinock

Format: Commander

Commander: Yedora, Grave Gardener

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is an engine-driven combo deck centered around Yedora, Grave Gardener. The primary strategy accelerates mana in the early turns to deploy Yedora by Turn 4, followed by assembling an infinite loop on Turn 5 using free morph creatures like Proteus Machine or Temur Charger alongside a sacrifice outlet like Phyrexian Altar. Because Yedora returns dying nontoken creatures as face-down Forest lands, morph creatures can repeatedly turn face up for zero mana and be sacrificed again. This loop generates infinite mana, infinite landfall, and infinite card draw, quickly closing the game on the same turn through a massive Finale of Devastation or Blasting Station. While the deck possesses explosive same-turn finishes and resilient protection via Sylvan Safekeeper, its reliance on commander-centric death triggers makes it vulnerable to well-timed creature removal, graveyard hate, and non-creature tutor bottlenecks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ainok Survivalist
  • 1 Ambush Commander
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Branch of Vitu-Ghazi
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Claws of Gix
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Den Protector
  • 1 Diligent Farmhand
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Earthbender Ascension
  • 1 Elven Palisade
  • 1 Embodiment of Insight
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Evolutionary Leap
  • 1 Fecundity
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flare of Cultivation
  • 25 Forest
  • 1 Fortitude
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Kamahl's Will
  • 1 Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
  • 1 Life and Limb
  • 1 Lifestream's Blessing
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Nervous Gardener
  • 1 Neverwinter Dryad
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Pattern of Rebirth
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Primal Growth
  • 1 Printlifter Ooze
  • 1 Proteus Machine
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retreat to Kazandu
  • 1 Ride the Shoopuf
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scryb Ranger
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Spinner of Souls
  • 1 Starved Rusalka
  • 1 Stone-Seeder Hierophant
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 1 Summoner's Pact
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Temur Charger
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yedora, Grave Gardener
  • 1 Zuran Orb