Scorched Earth by user3637458

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord Windgrace

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 85

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered competitive Jund Stax and Lands engine led by Lord Windgrace. It accelerates into oppressive resource-denial pieces on Turns 1 to 3, shutting down opposing artifact mana, taxing spells, and cutting off nonbasic lands using cards like Trinisphere, Null Rod, Blood Moon, and Contamination. While opponents are paralyzed, the deck breaks parity through continuous land recursion with Wrenn and Six, Ramunap Excavator, and Life from the Loam, repeatedly stripping opposing lands with Strip Mine. The deck converts its overwhelming resource advantage into a rapid finish on Turn 4 via the Underworld Breach, Lion's Eye Diamond, and Wheel of Fortune loop, or by assembling Dark Depths and Thespian's Stage to deploy a lethal Marit Lage token.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Moon
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Chains of Mephistopheles
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contamination
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Impending Disaster
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lord Windgrace
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Magus of the Moon
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nether Void
  • 1 Null Rod
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Price of Glory
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Root Maze
  • 1 Ruination
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trinisphere
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Winter Moon
  • 1 Winter Orb
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Wrenn and Six
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will