Mana Burn by ValorOTM

Format: Commander

Commander: Yurlok of Scorch Thrash

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a specialized Jund Group Slug strategy commanded by Yurlok of Scorch Thrash. It forces a retro 'mana burn' rule onto the battlefield while flooding the game with symmetrical mana through cards like Heartbeat of Spring, Mana Flare, and Eladamri's Vineyard. Once players have surplus mana, the deck locks them in a vice with Citadel of Pain, War's Toll, and Power Surge, turning unspent mana and untapped lands into severe life loss. Meanwhile, the pilot breaks parity using mana banks like Horizon Stone, Leyline Tyrant, and Omnath, Locus of Mana to store unspent mana safely. The deck closes games around Turn 7 with massive Exsanguinate casts, Cut // Ribbons, or accumulated table-wide attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Belbe, Corrupted Observer
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Citadel of Pain
  • 1 Collective Voyage
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Crawling Barrens
  • 1 Cut // Ribbons
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eladamri's Vineyard
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heartbeat of Spring
  • 1 Helix Pinnacle
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Horizon Stone
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Lair of the Hydra
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Leyline Tyrant
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magus of the Vineyard
  • 1 Mana Flare
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Mana
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Void
  • 1 Overabundance
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Power Surge
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rootweaver Druid
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seeker of Skybreak
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shizuko, Caller of Autumn
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stoneshaker Shaman
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tectonic Instability
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Umbral Mantle
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Veteran Explorer
  • 1 Victory Chimes
  • 1 War's Toll
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Ancient
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
  • 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher