Yurlok, of the Old School

Commander / EDH BRG (Jund) Burn Combo Group Slug Primer Stax

Massacar

Enchantment (20)

• 1x Awakening
• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Cindervines
• 1x Citadel of Pain
• 1x City of Solitude
• 1x Court of Ambition
• 1x Elephant Grass
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Helix Pinnacle
• 1x Leyline of Abundance
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Manabarbs
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Overabundance
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Power Surge
• 1x Price of Glory
• 1x Tectonic Instability
• 1x War's Toll

Creature (12)

• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Dosan the Falling Leaf
• 1x Harsh Mentor
• 1x Leyline Tyrant
• 1x Mogis, God of Slaughter
• 1x Nightshade Harvester
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Omnath, Locus of Mana
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Pain Distributor
• 1x Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
• 1x Vexing Shusher

Land (34)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 5x Forest
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Hull Breach
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Vandalblast

Commander (1)

Artifact (16)

• 1x Ankh of Mishra
• 1x Bottled Cloister
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Gruul Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Web
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Paruns
• 1x Umbral Mantle

Instant (8)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Grasp of Darkness
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Wilt

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Infernal Darkness
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Quest for Renewal
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Underworld Breach
• 1x Wound Reflection

Artifact (3)

• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Sands of Time
• 1x Torpor Orb

Instant (1)

• 1x Veil of Summer

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In the olden days of yesteryear there was an effect in magic known as Mana Burn. This old school effect caused players to be damaged by any unspent mana at the end of each phase (Beginning Phase, 1st main. combat, 2nd main, end phase). Now Wizards has given us this same ability, but on a commander Yurlok of Scorch Thrash!

The main strategy is to flood your opponents with as much mana on their off turns that they cannot spend, allowing them to die to mana burn effects. For this we will be running several untap effects such as Sword of the Paruns, Umbral Mantle and Staff of Domination to allow us to spam the commanders mana production abilities and flood our opponents with (hopefully) unusable mana.

Hand hate has been added in the form of spells like Necrogen Mists, Oppression, Court of Ambition, and Bottomless Pit forcing your opponents to play their cards or risk losing them. Additionally, slug and stax pieces like Citadel of Pain and Dosan the Falling Leaf are used to punish our opponents for untapped lands and prevent them from casting spells on their off turns.

Helix Pinnacle serves a dual purpose in this deck. Both to protect yourself from your own mana burn effects by allowing you to sink your unused mana at the end of turn, but also as an alternative wincon.

Ankh of Mishra and Nightshade Harvester help provide landfall hate etc.

Combos

Ensnaring Bridge + Bottled Cloister = Nobody attacks me

Yurlok of Scorch Thrash + Sword of the Paruns/Umbral Mantle/Staff of Domination + Nyxbloom Ancient/Mana Reflection/Leyline of Abundance = Flood your opponents with Jund mana

War's Toll/Mana Web + Price of Glory = Control players cry

Awakening + Power Surge + Price of Glory = Take damage or destroy your lands (there are several similar iterations of this type of combination)

Awakening + Power Surge + Manabarbs = No matter what you take damage from your lands.

Awakening + Power Surge + City of Solitude/Dosan the Falling Leaf = Tap your lands and take mana burn, or don't tap and take damage from power surge

Wincons

Mana burn go brrrrrrrrr

Helix Pinnacle

Stax pain combinations kill your opponents off

Top Ranked	Achieved #5 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #4 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BRG (Jund) 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Burn 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.88
Tokens	Monarch Emblem, Treasure
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