Azlask, the Swelling Scourge by AmbiguousGoop

Format: Commander

Commander: Azlask, the Swelling Scourge

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck leverages Azlask, the Swelling Scourge to lead a hybrid Eldrazi swarm and aristocrats strategy. In the early game, it establishes colorless ramp and deploys efficient token producers like Catacomb Sifter and Glaring Fleshraker to flood the board with Eldrazi Scions and Spawns. Sacrificing these tokens accelerates mana while permanently generating experience counters on the player. By turn 5-6, the deck accesses all five colors to activate Azlask's ability, transforming 0/1 and 1/1 tokens into massive indestructible attackers with Annihilator 1. Asymmetric sweepers like All Is Dust clear colored opposition without harming your colorless board, allowing devastating combat attacks to close out the table. If Azlask is answered, the deck easily pivots to hardcasting colossal Eldrazi Titans.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 All Is Dust
  • 1 Ancient Stirrings
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Benthic Anomaly
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Cascading Cataracts
  • 1 Catacomb Sifter
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chittering Dispatcher
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Crossroads
  • 1 Deepfathom Skulker
  • 1 Drowner of Hope
  • 1 Echoes of Eternity
  • 1 Elder Deep-Fiend
  • 1 Eldrazi Confluence
  • 1 Eldrazi Conscription
  • 1 Eldrazi Displacer
  • 1 Eldrazi Mimic
  • 1 Eldrazi Monument
  • 1 Eldrazi Temple
  • 1 Eldritch Immunity
  • 1 Emrakul, the World Anew
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Glaring Fleshraker
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Idol of False Gods
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Inversion Behemoth
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kozilek's Return
  • 1 Kozilek, the Broken Reality
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Morophon, the Boundless
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Nettle Drone
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Oblivion Sower
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Ruins of Oran-Rief
  • 1 Sanctum of Ugin
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Selective Obliteration
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Skittering Invasion
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawnbed Protector
  • 1 Spawning Bed
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tectonic Edge
  • 1 Titans' Vanguard
  • 1 Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Tranquil Landscape
  • 1 Twisted Landscape
  • 1 Ugin's Insight
  • 1 Ugin's Labyrinth
  • 1 Ugin, the Ineffable
  • 1 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity
  • 1 Ulamog's Crusher
  • 1 Ulamog's Nullifier
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vile Redeemer
  • 1 Warping Wail
  • 1 Wastes
  • 1 Wastescape Battlemage
  • 1 World Breaker
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat