Glarb - Deckbuilder by sorhaug

Format: Commander

Commander: Glarb, Calamity's Augur

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Sultai deck, helmed by Glarb, Calamity's Augur, is a graveyard-and-lands value engine that grinds opponents out through recursion, landfall, and top-deck manipulation. Glarb's ability to play lands and cast mana value 4+ spells from the top of the library turns surveil effects, Sensei's Divining Top, Sylvan Library, and Brainstorm into virtual card advantage. The primary win conditions are big X-spells - Torment of Hailfire and Finale of Devastation - backed by a deep reanimation package (Muldrotha, the Gravetide, Six, Conduit of Worlds, Reanimate, Animate Dead, Yawgmoth's Will) and landfall draw engines (Tatyova, Benthic Druid, Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait, The Gitrog Monster). The deck wins through incremental value and a critical-mass finisher rather than fast combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Counterbalance
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Glarb, Calamity's Augur
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Massacre
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will
  • 1 Zagoth Triome