Desecration Ritual (Yarok Primer)

Commander / EDH Blink BUG (Sultai) Clone Control Elementals Horror Primer Reanimator Shapeshifter Value Engine

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Creature (40)

• 1x Altered Ego
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Biovisionary
• 1x Cavalier of Thorns
• 1x Chupacabra Echo
• 1x Clone
• 1x Cloudkin Seer
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Dinrova Horror
• 1x Dusk Mangler
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Flesh Duplicate
• 1x Foundation Breaker
• 1x Geralf's Messenger
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Kitesail Larcenist
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Moritte of the Frost
• 1x Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1x Orvar, the All-Form
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Risen Reef
• 1x Serum Visionary
• 1x Sludge Monster
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Timeless Witness
• 1x Tireless Provisioner
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra
• 1x Wood Elves

Land (34)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkmoss Bridge
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 5x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 5x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Tanglepool Bridge
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Flay Essence
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Persist
• 1x Repudiate / Replicate
• 1x Step Through
• 1x Vigor Mortis

Commander (1)

Instant (11)

• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Confounding Riddle
• 1x Corpse Churn
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Displace
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Saw in Half

Artifact (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Thran Dynamo

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Creature (3)

• 1x Arbiter of Woe
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Wood Elves

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Rite of Replication

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This deck is designed to both fill your graveyard and hand while getting a land advantage over your opponent. The endless value once Yarok, the Desecrated hits the battlefield provides gamebreaking combos used to pick opponents apart and end the game for the table.

You play this to see the look on people's face when they realize you can cast something like Counterspell, Cyclonic Rift, or Putrefy over and over while not needing to attack to win.

The Game Ender

This combo literally ends the game. For everyone. And you get to choose how it goes down. This is the ideal loop you are going for, but by no means is it the only way to play. By filtering through your library so much and having ease of access with your graveyard you can reliably set up this value train and run it over your opponents.

Piece A

Yarok, the Desecrated: The commander, obviously. The whole deck is centered around it's ability, and by doubling your ETB abilities you get unfair amounts of value and outpace everyone.

Piece B

Ghostly Flicker or Displace: Your flicker function to get 4 total triggers for the price of 3 mana. Having the ability to target lands and artifacts in addition to creatures opens all kinds of avenues of attack.

Piece C

Archaeomancer, Eternal Witness or Timeless Witness: Allows you to put two cards from your graveyard back in your hand, make one of them the flicker spell. You regain the ability to flicker two permanents, and you put another card from your full graveyard into your hand to maintain board control.

Piece D

Use control/removal/self-mill/draw ETB abilities to survive and look for a game ending card to end up in your hand or the yard. Peregrine Drake gives infinite mana and let's the following cards close out the game. In order of least to most offensive:

• Gray Merchant of Asphodel kills the whole table.
• Dusk Mangler kills the whole table and makes them suffer until it's over.
• Geralf's Messenger drain each opponents life down to 0 one by one.
• Gonti, Lord of Luxury exile each opponents library, one by one, then pass turn to let them lose on their upkeep to win by mass mill.

Ramp/Draw/Self-Mill

Use these cards to accelerate your mana and dig through your deck, tossing cards in the graveyard for later use.

• Baleful Strix
• Cloudkin Seer
• Serum Visionary
• Intimidation Campaign
• Cavalier of Thorns
• Coiling Oracle
• Confounding Riddle
• Farhaven Elf
• Tireless Provisioner
• Peregrine Drake
• Risen Reef
• Ulvenwald Hydra
• Forbidden Alchemy
• Grisly Salvage

Control

Shut down everything on the field you don't like, and probably a few things you barely mind while you're at it.

• Flay Essence
• Step Through
• Repudiate / Replicate
• Putrefy
• Cyclonic Rift
• Counterspell
• Kitesail Larcenist
• Sludge Monster
• Reclamation Sage
• Ravenous Chupacabra
• Chupacabra Echo
• Massacre Wurm
• Foundation Breaker
• Dusk Mangler
• Dinrova Horror
• Maelstrom Pulse

Blink + Recursion

Cards to get extra uses out of your ETB effects, and to disrupt targeted removal or make your opponent feel like it hurt them more to remove your creature when you just bring it back.

• Archaeomancer
• Eternal Witness
• Timeless Witness
• Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• Riptide Laboratory
• Displace
• Ghostly Flicker
• Persist
• Step Through
• Vigor Mortis
• Corpse Churn

The Illusion Game

Make copies of any creature, or trigger a non combat winc with Biovisionary. These are good ways to get even more value out of the nasty abilities the other creatures have, or sometimes borrow from your opponent if they have a good one.

• Repudiate / Replicate
• Saw in Half
• Cackling Counterpart
• Mimic Vat
• Moritte of the Frost
• Progenitor Mimic
• Phantasmal Image
• Flesh Duplicate
• Orvar, the All-Form
• Stunt Double
• Clone
• Altered Ego

Thievery

Rather than just having shapeshifters become copies, play your opponents actual deck against them. One of the fastest ways to get under someone's skin.

• Dauthi Voidwalker
• Hostage Taker
• Mimic Vat
• Sower of Temptation
• Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Ritual Synergy

Massacre Wurm + targetable shapeshifter + Ghostly Flicker/Displace + Orvar, the All-Form = All opponents creatures get -16/-16, and each opponent loses (up to) 6 life per creature that dies. Massacre Wurm's ability goes on the stack, doubled by Yarok, for -4/-4. Before it resolves you play Displace/Ghostly Flicker targeting a valid shapeshifter and Wurm, which triggers Orvar to put out a copy of the Wurm, giving -4/-4 and fully resolving before the bounce card exiles the targets. All opponents creatures with toughness 4 or less die and it hurts them for 4 life for each creature because you have two Wurms on the field. The bounce card resolves and you can have the shapeshifter enter as a copy of the copy Wurm, putting four more triggers on the stack for -12/-12 when those triggers resolve plus the -4/-4 from the copy token trigger for -16/-16 total. Any creature that dies from this results in 6 life lost each because you have 3 Wurms in play.

Dauthi Voidwalker + Progenitor Mimic = free casts of the exiled cards that go right back to voided exile after resolving.

Dinrova Horror can be used to remove all of your opponents lands. Not that you'd ever do that....

Step Through has 7 targets for the wizardcycling ability depending on the situation. Archaeomancer sets up the main combo and puts the card back in your hand to cycle again to pull another wizard. Serum Visionary helps filter through your deck faster. Cloudkin Seer draws you cards and is an elemental to trigger Risen Reef for more cards. Sower of Temptation to steal commanders or other important creatures, also gums up reanimator decks by keeping targets out of the graveyard. Biovisionary for an alternate win condition. Orvar, the All-Form and Moritte of the Frost can also be pulled with it, helping with that. All of these creatures can also be bounced with Riptide Laboratory.

Eternal Witness/Timeless Witness + Persist = return that creature plus three other cards from your graveyard to your hand. Target a Witness with Persist, it enters the battlefield and dies from the counter so its able to target itself with its own ability. Play it again from your hand to return two more cards, make one of them Persist to do it again if your opponent uses removal.

Saw in Half one of your zombies for big life loss. Geralf's Messenger returns with its Undying trigger giving you 12 damage to dish out. Gray Merchant of Asphodel adds both of their two black devotion to their triggers, starting them at 10 damage each with just Yarok out. Minimum 20 damage to each opponent and you gain all that life to your total. All for three mana. Not bad.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.55
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Food, Timeless Witness 4/4 B, Treasure
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