World Shaper (Modified) by ValorOTM

Format: Commander

Commander: Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a Jund lands-matter and sacrifice midrange deck commanded by Szarel, Genesis Shepherd. The strategy accelerates mana in the opening turns using green land-ramp spells and fetchlands. Once Szarel or a redundant engine like The Gitrog Monster or Titania, Protector of Argoth is on the battlefield, the deck converts land sacrifices into massive card advantage, token generation, and creature buffs. Midgame spells like Scapeshift, Splendid Reclamation, and Nahiri's Lithoforming trigger explosive landfall sequences with Field of the Dead, Omnath, Locus of Rage, and Bristly Bill, Spine Sower. The deck protects its key pieces using Sylvan Safekeeper and recovers rapidly from board wipes through powerful graveyard recursion like Six and Life from the Loam. It reliably closes the game on Turn 7 by swarming the table with overwhelming combat damage or burning opponents out with Mayhem Devil.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Augur of Autumn
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Eumidian Hatchery
  • 1 Evendo Brushrazer
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Gaze of Granite
  • 1 God-Eternal Bontu
  • 1 Hammer of Purphoros
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hearthhull, the Worldseed
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nahiri's Lithoforming
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Planetary Annihilation
  • 1 Popular Egotist
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Roiling Regrowth
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul of Windgrace
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar
  • 1 Wastes
  • 1 Windgrace's Judgment
  • 1 World Shaper
  • 1 Worldsoul's Rage
  • 1 Wrenn and Six
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground