Touch Grass by Laball90

Format: Commander

Commander: Yurlok of Scorch Thrash

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Jund Group Slug strategy commanded by Yurlok of Scorch Thrash. It focuses on forcing mana onto opponents, reviving the mana burn rule, and punishing every stage of mana management. The deck accelerates in the early turns using low-cost mana dorks, rocks, and symmetrical mana doublers like Heartbeat of Spring and Mana Flare. Once Yurlok is deployed alongside taxing enchantments such as Manabarbs, Citadel of Pain, and War's Toll, opponents face a painful dilemma: tapping lands deals direct damage, while leaving lands untapped burns them via Citadel of Pain and Yurlok's activations. The deck breaks parity using mana-storage permanents like Horizon Stone and Leyline Tyrant, alongside life-gain effects like Exquisite Blood. Games conclude either through massive life-loss multipliers like Wound Reflection and Archfiend of Despair or by channeling surplus mana into lethal X-spells like Crackle with Power and Exsanguinate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ankh of Mishra
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Barbflare Gremlin
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Sun
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 1 Burning Earth
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Citadel of Pain
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dictate of Karametra
  • 1 Eladamri's Vineyard
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fiendish Duo
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heartbeat of Spring
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Horizon Stone
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lavalanche
  • 1 Leyline Tyrant
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magus of the Candelabra
  • 1 Magus of the Vineyard
  • 1 Mana Flare
  • 1 Mana Web
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nightshade Harvester
  • 1 Obsidian Fireheart
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Mana
  • 1 Overabundance
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Ozai, the Phoenix King
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Power Surge
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Seeker of Skybreak
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stoneshaker Shaman
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Paruns
  • 1 Tectonic Instability
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Twisted Landscape
  • 1 Umbral Mantle
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victory Chimes
  • 1 War's Toll
  • 1 Warlock Class
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Ancient
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Druid
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
  • 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher