Burning Lands by Thick_L

Format: Commander

Commander: Tannuk, Memorial Ensign

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is a high-speed Gruul landfall burn engine commanded by Tannuk, Memorial Ensign. The strategy leverages dense low-cost mana acceleration, extra land drops, and graveyard land recursion to establish rapid board velocity by Turn 3. Tannuk serves as both a symmetric burn outlet and a steady card engine by drawing a card on the second landfall trigger each turn. The deck transitions into a lethal win on Turn 4 by casting mass land spells like Scapeshift, Nahiri's Lithoforming, or Awaken the Woods, often amplified by damage enhancers like Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might, and Solphim, Mayhem Dominus. Redundant pingers and creature tutors ensure consistent execution, while Sylvan Safekeeper, Deflecting Swat, and Veil of Summer protect the combo turn. It reliably closes games in a single explosive turn cycle without needing combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Ghost Town
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Koth, the Geomancer
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nahiri's Lithoforming
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Sabotender
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Summer Bloom
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
  • 1 Terrain Generator
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Traveling Chocobo
  • 1 Tunneling Geopede
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Valakut Exploration
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldsoul's Rage
  • 1 Wrenn and Six
  • 1 Zuran Orb