Yarok! by chunky22

Format: Commander

Commander: Yarok, the Desecrated

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Sultai Midrange strategy built around Yarok, the Desecrated's ability to double all entering-permanent triggered abilities. The early game focuses on ramping through 1- and 2-mana acceleration like Sol Ring, Llanowar Elves, Wild Growth, and Rampant Growth to deploy Yarok ahead of curve on Turn 4. Once Yarok is active, every creature entering the battlefield generates immense resource swings, doubling card draw via Cloudkin Seer and Raven Familiar, ramping lands with Solemn Simulacrum, and dismantling opposing boards through Acidic Slime and Vraska, the Cutting Glare. The deck converts this overwhelming card and mana advantage into a win through explosive late-game threats like Sepulchral Primordial, which reanimates multiple creatures from opposing graveyards, and Champion of Lambholt, which quickly grows to make the entire board unblockable. Backed by flexible interaction and low-cost reanimation, the deck grinds down opponents and finishes games through decisive combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bloodgift Demon
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Cloudkin Seer
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Coveted Jewel
  • 1 Deadly Tempest
  • 1 Diabolic Edict
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Conclave
  • 1 False Demise
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 Ghastly Demise
  • 1 Heart Warden
  • 1 Intuition
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Loyal Guardian
  • 1 Miscalculation
  • 1 Multani's Acolyte
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Phyrexian Rager
  • 1 Polluted Mire
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Primal Witchstalker
  • 1 Quirion Explorer
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rampant Rejuvenator
  • 1 Raven Familiar
  • 1 Ravenous Rats
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Remote Isle
  • 1 Rishadan Cutpurse
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Roaring Primadox
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Silverglade Elemental
  • 1 Simulacrum Shaper
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spell Snare
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Thwart
  • 1 Treetop Village
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vraska, the Cutting Glare
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Winding Canyons
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated
  • 1 Yavimaya Elder
  • 1 Yavimaya Granger