26: Jund Mana Burn (Yurlok) by allaboutduncan

Format: Commander

Commander: Yurlok of Scorch Thrash

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Jund "mana burn / group slug" deck built around Yurlok of Scorch Thrash. The plan is to deploy symmetrical mana-doubling enchantments like Mana Flare, Heartbeat of Spring, and Zhur-Taa Ancient, then convert the unspent mana those effects create into life loss via Yurlok, Citadel of Pain, Overabundance, and Barbflare Gremlin. The deck closes the game with table-wide life erosion from Sulfuric Vortex, Havoc Festival, Wound Reflection, Manabarbs, and Zo-Zu the Punisher. It also carries a compact untap-engine combo package (Sword of the Paruns, Umbral Mantle, Leyline of Abundance, Zhur-Taa Druid, and Leyline Prowler) that can produce infinite mana and feed Helix Pinnacle as a dedicated alternate win condition. Yurlok himself is the primary accelerator - a body that turns floating mana into a universal life-loss clock, plus an activated ability the deck can fire repeatedly with untap effects like Seedborn Muse.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Awakening
  • 1 Barbflare Gremlin
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Belbe, Corrupted Observer
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Cindervines
  • 1 Citadel of Pain
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Courser of Kruphix
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curse of Bounty
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Dictate of Karametra
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Enchantress's Presence
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Gaze of Granite
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Havoc Festival
  • 1 Heartbeat of Spring
  • 1 Heat Wave
  • 1 Helix Pinnacle
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Instill Energy
  • 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Lavalanche
  • 1 Leyline Prowler
  • 1 Leyline Tyrant
  • 1 Leyline of Abundance
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Flare
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Ornamental Courage
  • 1 Overabundance
  • 1 Pain Magnification
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Seeker of Skybreak
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sulfuric Vortex
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Paruns
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Treacherous Terrain
  • 1 Umbral Mantle
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Veteran Explorer
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Ancient
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Druid
  • 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher