try by woolfy

Format: Commander

Commander: Yurlok of Scorch Thrash

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Jund "mana-burn" group-slug deck built around Yurlok of Scorch Thrash. The plan is to flood opponents with mana that they cannot profitably spend, then convert that unspent mana into life loss while a suite of symmetrical punishment permanents grinds down all three life totals at once. Cards like Manabarbs, Power Surge, Barbflare Gremlin, Harsh Mentor, and Ruric Thar, the Unbowed form the core pain engine, while untap effects enable Yurlok to fire multiple times per turn. The deck closes through repeatable burn plus mana-hungry X-spells such as Exsanguinate, Jaya's Immolating Inferno, Exocrine, and Apocalypse Hydra. It is a midrange attrition deck that wins by making every normal game action-tapping lands, activating abilities, casting spells-cost life.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Apocalypse Hydra
  • 1 Barbflare Gremlin
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Belbe, Corrupted Observer
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commune with Lava
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Earthquake
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exocrine
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Gluttonous Hellkite
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Heartless Act
  • 1 Ignite the Future
  • 1 Immolation Shaman
  • 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Leyline of Abundance
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Magus of the Candelabra
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 13 Mountain
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Power Surge
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rug of Smothering
  • 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
  • 1 Scryb Ranger
  • 1 Scytheclaw Raptor
  • 1 Seeker of Skybreak
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sunspine Lynx
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of the Paruns
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Umbral Mantle
  • 1 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
  • 1 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Druid