Jund Land Destruction [[Primer]]

Commander / EDH Aggro BRG (Jund) Combo Land Destruction Primer Theme/Gimmick

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Land (33)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 6x Forest
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Dark Tutelage
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Impending Disaster
• 1x Nature's Revolt
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

Creature (22)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Emrakul's Evangel
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Viscera Seer

Instant (10)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Natural Affinity
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Signal the Clans
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Commander (1)

Sorcery (17)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Bontu's Last Reckoning
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Jokulhaups
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Tempt with Vengeance
• 1x Time of Need
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald
• 1x Victimize

Artifact (7)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

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Sorcery (4)

• 1x Decree of Annihilation
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Artifact (1)

• 1x Zuran Orb

Land (1)

• 1x Dakmor Salvage

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Desolation
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Squandered Resources
• 1x Sylvan Library

Creature (3)

• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Turntimber Sower

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"Kill a creature, destroy the present. Kill a land, destroy the future."

• Kaervek

Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper is criminally undervalued!

Most people see a creature with a mediocre ability, I see a token generating powerhouse with untapped potential.

Typically, Sek’Kuar decks exploit token doublers (Parallel Lives), mini-Sek’Kuars (Pawn of Ulamog), or artifact combos (Ashnod's Altar + Nim Deathmantle).

I’ve experimented with this ”token madness” approach for close to two years now and it can be quite powerful, but it’s easily outclassed by fellow Jund powerhouse, Prossh, Skyraider of Kher.

Sek’Kuar has been in desperate need of his own identity and I believe myself, and the other Jund enthusiasts out there, have finally found it...

Land Destruction and Land Animation!

I understand that land destruction is seen as “taboo” in a lot of Commander playgroups, but in order to maximize Sek'Kuar's potential you have to be willing to fight a little dirty. Sek’Kuar isn’t destroying lands to troll or stall out games, he’s exploiting lands to set up explosive, game winning plays!

If you’re prepared to harness the power of Jund and unleash Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper on your playgroup, check out the tabs below!

Land Destruction/Animation

Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper has the unique ability to turn non-token creatures like Reassembling Skeleton into 3/1, hasty, tokens when they die. Sek’s ability can also work on animated-lands or morph creatures, people typically avoid these kind of strategies but I think this is where Sek truly shines!

Here’s an example:

• Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper on the battlefield.
• Cast Natural Affinity
• Cast Blasphemous Act for
• Opponents lose all their lands and creatures, my lands and creatures become 3/1, hasty, Graveborns.

Converting lands into creatures en mass is not a strategy people see every day so the element of surprise is on our side!

Here are the land-animators:

• Life/Death
• Natural Affinity
• Nature's Revolt

Life/Death is a powerhouse in this deck. Pair it with Jokulhaups and Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper and you have yourself an easy GG. Don't underestimate the Death side of this spell either, I've resurrected Titania, Protector of Argoth or Sek'Kuar with it many times.

Natural Affinity is a trap card in many ways. Using this in response to an opponents Wrath of God will make them reconsider their life decisions.

Sometimes we have to utilize sac outlets to take out our animated lands or just to exploit Sek'Kuar's ability to it's fullest.

Here are the sac outlets:

• Ashnod's Altar
• Emrakul's Evangel
• Birthing Pod
• Evolutionary Leap
• Viscera Seer

Emrakul’s Evangel is an absolute all star! This little guy can turn our lands into 3/2, murderface, Eldrazi tokens. Combine him with Sek and you can nab yourself a two for one special on land-creature sacrifices!

Birthing Pod and Evolutionary Leap are handy ways to convert our weaker creatures into bigger, badder ones. Both have abilities that can be activated at instant speed in response to wraths and trigger Sek for extra token goodness.

As awesome as Sek’Kuar is he can’t do it all on his own. That’s why he’s invited a few friends to the land destruction party:

• Titania, Protector of Argoth
• The Gitrog Monster
• Ramunap Excavator
• Crucible of Worlds

Titania, Protector of Argoth is an absolute beast! If you thought 3/1 tokens were cool, just wait until you start mass producing 5/3 tokens! Her ETB trigger isn't bad either, getting extra Bojuka Bog triggers is always nice.

The Gitrog Monster is extea card draw every turn, refills our hand when we wrath the board, and is a 6/6 deathtouch to boot!

Git-gud Frog as he's better known is the backbone of this deck and is instrumental to our overall success. He's the first creature I dig for with cards like Worldly Tutor or Time of Need.

Crucible of Worlds and Ramunap Excavator are our insurance policies. They also pair really well with Strip Mine, setting up this lock at the beginning of the game can eliminate people from the onset.

As awesome as all this carnage is, sometimes it won’t benefit you in anyway to destroy everything. For situations like this we have a backup plan:

Infinite Combo Alert please proceed to the next tab...

Infinite Combo

Every deck needs a backup plan and Sek's is a four part combo involving:

• Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper
• Ashnod's Altar
• Nether Traitor
• Cryptolith Rite

Here's the basic rundown of how these cards sync together:

• Cryptolith Rite let's us tap Nether Traitor for a which we'll float and use to pay for Nether's own ability later.

• Saccing Nether Traitor to Ashnod's Altar sets us up with and a 3/1, hasty, Graveborn token thanks to Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper.

• At this point we should have in our mana pool and Nether Traitor in our graveyard.

• Since our Graveborn token has haste we can use it to make one mana of any color with Cryptolith Rite before saccing it to Ashnod's Altar, nabbing us another .

• Tokens technically hit the graveyard when they die, this means we can use the we floated earlier to resurrect Nether Traitor.

• Nether Traitor reenters with haste, meaning we can tap him for more mana, sac him, and keep this loop going for as long as we please.

• This combo generates infinite mana of any color and infinite ETB and LTB triggers.

So how does this combo actually win games?

1. Grim Haruspex sets us up to draw a card every time we sac Nether Traitor, which means we can draw out our whole deck, set up our land destruction pieces and win.

2. Ogre Slumlord gives us infinite 1/1, deathtouch rats.

3. Tempt with Vengeance and Torment of Hailfire are great outlets for our infinite mana.

Gameplay

Coming soon this section will feature MTGO gameplay videos of this decklist! Sek'Kuar's on a quest to conquer the multiverse, one game at a time!

Top Ranked	Achieved #26 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.55
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Eldrazi Horror 3/2 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Elemental 1/1 R w/ Haste, Elemental 5/3 G, Graveborn 3/1 BR, Morph 2/2 C, Rat 1/1 B, Snake 1/1 B, Spirit 1/1 C
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