Buff Jarad EDH

Commander / EDH*

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Creature (37)

• 1x Bone Shredder
• 1x Boneyard Wurm
• 1x Brawn
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Dawntreader Elk
• 1x Deadly Recluse
• 1x Deathcap Cultivator
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Filth
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Gleancrawler
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Greater Mossdog
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Lotleth Troll
• 1x Mortivore
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Revenant
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Shambling Shell
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Splinterfright
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Thornweald Archer
• 1x Undertaker
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Werebear
• 1x Wild Mongrel
• 1x Wood Elves

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Aid from the Cowl
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Tortured Existence

Instant (1)

• 1x Darkblast

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Life from the Loam

Artifact (1)

• 1x Skullclamp

Land (1)

• 1x Dakmor Salvage

Commander (1)

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The idea of this deck is to fill your graveyard with creatures, making Jarad huge, then swing for lethal commander damage. Alternatively you can use Jarad's sacrifice ability to deal tons of damage to opponents. In order to achieve this, all ramp and removal is creature-based and the main focus is self-milling with dregde and discard effects.

The deck is budget (I already own the more expensive cards). It has some really neat interactions. The dredge/discard-engine (Tortured Existence, Undertaker, Greenseeker, etc) creates a ton of value, with Tortured Existence out you can repeatidly play cards like Fleshbag Marauder, Sakura-Tribe Elder, Shriekmaw, Boneshredder, etc. all the while filling your graveyard, buffing up Jarad.

The current downside is that it's really slow and can't really handle commanders like Edric or token strategies. I'm thinking of maybe adding some cheap deathtouch creatures like Deadly Recluse. They provide early protection, especially when you can recur them each turn, and they count towards buffing up Jarad. Another problem is when you don't draw into your discard/dredge engine the deck does close to nothing. Some tutoring might help, but cheap and efficient tutors are hard to come by on a budget. Obviously, this deck is SUPER weak when people are playing graveyard hate. Fortunately not a lot of decks in my playgroup carry that.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 13 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	45
Avg. CMC	3.09
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C