Shifting GLARB-Land🐸 [Vid Guide] (br3.5; no infinites)

Format: Commander

Commander: Glarb, Calamity's Augur

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Sultai lands-and-value deck built around Glarb, Calamity's Augur, using his top-deck play and surveil abilities to turn every draw step into card selection while ramping into high-impact, mana-value-4-or-greater spells. The deck's primary plan is land-based ramp plus graveyard recursion: play additional lands with Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Exploration, Oracle of Mul Daya, and Icetill Explorer; mill lands and threats with Blossoming Tortoise, Glarb's surveil, and landfall triggers; then reanimate or copy the best threats with Incarnation Technique, Agadeem's Awakening, Timeless Witness, and token-copy spells like Rite of Replication, Doppelgang, and Replication Technique. The secondary win path is a board of hasty, huge creatures from Finale of Devastation, plus drain effects from Kokusho, the Evening Star and The Meathook Massacre. Glarb is a value engine rather than a strict combo piece: he accelerates the deck's card quality and lets it cast high-mana spells off the top, but the rest of the deck can still function if he is answered.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Awakening
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Blossoming Tortoise
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Disorienting Choice
  • 1 Doppelgang
  • 1 Druid of Purification
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Espers to Magicite
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flash Photography
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Glarb, Calamity's Augur
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Hour of Promise
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Make an Example
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mirrorform
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Omenpath Journey
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pir's Whim
  • 1 Planar Genesis
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Replication Technique
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Savvy Trader
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shadow of the Second Sun
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sowing Mycospawn
  • 1 Starfield Vocalist
  • 1 Submerge
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tidal Barracuda
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Titania's Command
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 V.A.T.S.
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Wilderness Reclamation
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth