big boy mana by Dyna

Format: Commander

Commander: Yurlok of Scorch Thrash

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Jund Group Slug and Big Mana Stompy deck commanded by Yurlok of Scorch Thrash. Its strategy revolves around accelerating all players' mana production using symmetrical doublers like Mana Flare, Overabundance, and Dictate of Karametra, while punishing opponents for utilizing or floating that mana via Yurlok of Scorch Thrash, Citadel of Pain, War's Toll, and Price of Glory. Once the mana engine is active, the deck leverages its accelerated mana curve to resolve game-ending haymakers such as Havoc Festival, Apex Devastator, Wound Reflection, and Worldspine Wurm. While the deck exerts tremendous passive pressure and forces opponents into difficult timing decisions, its symmetrical mana doubling can backfire by feeding opponents the mana they need to execute their own plans. Furthermore, the list suffers from low reactive interaction and card draw consistency, making it vulnerable to fast combo decks and mass removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Barbflare Gremlin
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Citadel of Pain
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contest of Claws
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dictate of Karametra
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eladamri's Vineyard
  • 1 Emergent Woodwurm
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Havoc Festival
  • 1 Helm of Awakening
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Horizon Stone
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Lavaleaper
  • 1 Magma Pummeler
  • 1 Mana Flare
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Monstrous Vortex
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Mana
  • 1 Overabundance
  • 1 Overwhelming Forces
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Price of Glory
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reshape the Earth
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 See the Unwritten
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Tectonic Instability
  • 1 Temple Bell
  • 1 The Tarrasque
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 War's Toll
  • 1 Worldspine Wurm
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Ancient