big boy mana by DynaDynasty

Format: Commander

Commander: Yurlok of Scorch Thrash

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Jund Big Mana Group Slug deck commanded by Yurlok of Scorch Thrash. It operates by flooding the table with symmetrical mana acceleration through cards like Mana Flare, Dictate of Karametra, and Overabundance, while weaponizing that surplus through Yurlok's mana burn ability and punitive enchantments like Citadel of Pain and War's Toll. In the midgame, the deck capitalizes on massive mana pools to cast game-ending stompy threats such as Apex Devastator, Tooth and Nail, Last March of the Ents, and Vaultborn Tyrant. Damage doublers and triplers like Fiery Emancipation and Dictate of the Twin Gods, combined with life-halving effects like Havoc Festival and Wound Reflection, rapidly close out the game. While the deck possesses explosive ramp and resilient creature recovery, its minimal reactive interaction and reliance on symmetrical mana require careful timing to prevent opponents from capitalizing on the extra resources.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Barbflare Gremlin
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Citadel of Pain
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contest of Claws
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dictate of Karametra
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eladamri's Vineyard
  • 1 Emergent Woodwurm
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Havoc Festival
  • 1 Helm of Awakening
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Horizon Stone
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Lavaleaper
  • 1 Magma Pummeler
  • 1 Mana Flare
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 Mind's Eye
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Monstrous Vortex
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Mana
  • 1 Overabundance
  • 1 Overwhelming Forces
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Price of Glory
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reshape the Earth
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 See the Unwritten
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Tectonic Instability
  • 1 Temple Bell
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 War's Toll
  • 1 Worldspine Wurm
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Ancient