Yarok's Toolbox : Primer

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) Combo Primer

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Creature (36)

• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Cauldron Familiar
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Dream Stalker
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Reclaimer
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fblthp, the Lost
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Ice-Fang Coatl
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Prime Speaker Vannifar
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Shrieking Drake
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wood Elves

Land (34)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 3x Snow-Covered Forest
• 3x Snow-Covered Island
• 2x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Neoform
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Resilience
• 1x Thought Vessel

Instant (10)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sylvan Library

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Sideboard

Creature (8)

• 1x Bramble Sovereign
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1x Prowling Serpopard
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth

Instant (4)

• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Putrefy

Land (1)

• 1x Temple of Deceit

Artifact (2)

• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Dimir Signet

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tamiyo, Collector of Tales

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

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The Moment I saw Yarok spoiled I knew that I would be building a deck for him. As expected, having a better Panharmonicon on a stick is quite strong.

The goal of this deck is win by utilizing infinite mana combos that synergize well with your creatures' powerful ETB effects, and has a built in creature/land toolbox to allow for resiliency in the long game.

HOW DO WE WIN?

Our card draw in this deck will come mostly in the form of creatures that cantrip themselves, such as Baleful Strix and Elvish Visionary. These creatures are also one of your main avenues to victory. When combined with any infinite mana outlet, say, Cloud of Faeries + Shrieking Drake + Yarok, the Desecrated , these creatures cantrip through the deck allowing you to win with Capsize or Thassa's Oracle.

We don't have to draw your deck to win, though. The above iteration can be performed with an infinite mana outlet and a Cauldron Familiar to drain life from the whole table until victory is achieved. We may also achieve win by milling everyone out with Altar of the Brood.

HOW DO WE MAKE INFINITE MANA?

Palinchron can go infinite with Yarok by itself, as long as you have at least 6 lands. The following are also infinite mana as long as you have either Yarok, the Desecrated or Panharmonicon out and the required number of lands:

Peregrine Drake + Temur Sabertooth

Dream Stalker + Peregrine Drake

Peregrine Drake + Shrieking Drake

Cloud of Faeries + Shrieking Drake

Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake

CREATURE TOOLBOX

We are using a wide variety of flexible creatures, that answer most, if not all major threats in the format. To start it off, lets run through the removal package Ravenous Chupacabra, Hostage Taker, and Shriekmaw all make up the crowd control portion of our toolbox. Hostage Taker and Reclamation Sage do their part to keep problematic artifacts and enchantments off the board. For recursion we have Eternal Witness. This deck is exceptionally good against graveyard decks. Not only do we have Scavenging Ooze, but we can also continuously loop Bojuka Bog using Ramunap Excavator and Elvish Reclaimer, while still making our land drop for the turn. Spellseeker can search up almost any instant or sorcery in our deck, and Collector Ouphe is excellent for slowing down artifact-based combo decks.

RAMP

We are running an extensive ramp package in the form of mana dorks, rocks, and land ramp. Azusa, Lost but Seeking is by far and away our best piece of ramp, synergizing with Tatyova, Benthic Druid and Ramunap Excavator to let us draw gross amounts of cards off of our fetch lands. We get this same, but lesser effect with wood elves as well.

THE REST OF THE DECK

The rest of the deck is dedicated mostly to tutors and removal. Because We run the three best colors in the format we get the best removal and tutors available. Cards like Assassin's Trophy are a necessity to make sure that cards like Overburden or Torpor Orb don't shut down the deck. Tutors like Vampiric Tutor, Neoform, and Finale of Devastation are able to give us access to our toolbox of creatures so that we may select whatever creature the situation calls for.

Top Ranked	Achieved #25 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #12 position in Commander / EDH 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Primer 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake Peregrine Drake + Temur Sabertooth Cloud of Faeries + Shrieking Drake Cloud of Faeries + Shrieking Drake + Yarok, the Desecrated Peregrine Drake + Shrieking Drake Dream Stalker + Peregrine Drake
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 5 Mythic Rares 50 - 6 Rares 22 - 3 Uncommons 13 - 2 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.64
Tokens	Beast 4/4 G, Bird 2/2 U, Clue, Copy Clone, Elemental 5/3 G, Elk 3/3 G, Food, Manifest 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B
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