World Shaper by hixg

Format: Commander

Commander: Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a Jund Lands midrange strategy led by Szarel, Genesis Shepherd. The primary game plan focuses on accelerating mana through land-based ramp, sacrificing and recurring fetchlands from the graveyard, and converting land drops into overwhelming creature armies. In the early turns, the deck fixes its colors and ramps using cards like Cultivate, Exploration, and Harrow. On Turn 4, it deploys Szarel, Genesis Shepherd or an artifact enabler like Conduit of Worlds to establish continuous graveyard land recursion. By Turn 6, the deck drops major landfall finishers such as Avenger of Zendikar, Scute Swarm, or Omnath, Locus of Rage, often combining them with mass land recursion from Splendid Reclamation or extra land drops from Azusa, Lost but Seeking. These engines generate dozens of tokens that close out the game through combat damage by Turn 8, augmented by Moraug, Fury of Akoum and Unnatural Growth. While resilient against single-target removal, the deck remains vulnerable to board wipes and graveyard exile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Augur of Autumn
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Baloth Prime
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Boundless Realms
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chocobo Racetrack
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Eusocial Engineering
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Gimli's Reckless Might
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Harvest Season
  • 1 Hearthhull, the Worldseed
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Larval Scoutlander
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Mana Flare
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Migration Path
  • 1 Mina and Denn, Wildborn
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Nahiri's Lithoforming
  • 1 Nesting Dragon
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Phylath, World Sculptor
  • 1 Planetary Annihilation
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Roiling Regrowth
  • 1 Sabotender
  • 1 Sapling Nursery
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seismic Sense
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Traverse the Outlands
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Virtue of Strength // Garenbrig Growth
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Zendikar's Roil