Yarok ETB ramp and again by Dylar

Format: Commander

Commander: Yarok, the Desecrated

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai midrange strategy centered on Yarok, the Desecrated. It leverages Yarok's replacement effect to double every triggered ability caused by permanents entering the battlefield. The early game focuses on accelerating mana through low-cost ramp spells like Farseek, Lotus Cobra, and Wood Elves. Once Yarok lands on Turn 4, the deck generates immense card advantage and board presence using synergistic permanents like Tatyova, Benthic Druid, Guardian Project, and Risen Reef. The deck closes games around Turn 6 to 8 by deploying overwhelming landfall finishers such as Avenger of Zendikar, Scute Swarm, and Rampaging Baloths, which create massive creature swarms capable of trampling over defenses. Utility creatures like Acidic Slime and Ravenous Chupacabra double as repeatable removal, while Constant Mists and Sylvan Safekeeper provide defense as the deck grinds down opposing life totals.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Amphin Mutineer
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Elvish Rejuvenator
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Ice-Fang Coatl
  • 1 Into the North
  • 1 Kenrith's Transformation
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Man-o'-War
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pond Prophet
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Retreat to Hagra
  • 1 Retreat to Kazandu
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shrieking Drake
  • 7 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 6 Snow-Covered Island
  • 5 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thragtusk
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Woodfall Primus
  • 1 World Shaper
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated