Yasharn Hateboars [cEDH]

Commander / EDH* Competitive GW (Selesnya) Hatebears Infinite Combo Primer Stax Toolbox

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Creature (46)

• 1x Allosaurus Shepherd
• 1x Archon of Emeria
• 1x Archon of Valor's Reach
• 1x Argothian Elder
• 1x Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Duskwatch Recruiter  ^Flip
• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Guardian Augmenter
• 1x Heliod, Sun-Crowned
• 1x Kogla, the Titan Ape
• 1x Ley Weaver
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Sanctifier en-Vec
• 1x Sanctum Prelate
• 1x Seedcradle Witch
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Serra Ascendant
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Skyclave Apparition
• 1x Solitude
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Land (27)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x City of Traitors
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Savannah
• 3x Snow-Covered Forest
• 3x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Deafening Silence
• 1x Leyline of Abundance
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Wild Growth

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vivien, Monsters' Advocate

Commander (1)

Artifact (8)

• 1x Chalice of the Void
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Umbral Mantle

Instant (7)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Once Upon a Time
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Ecological Appreciation
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Turntimber Symbiosis  ^Flip

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Deck Background

A competitive hatebears/stax deck focused on Rule of Law effects and and taxing non-creature spells to slow our opponents down while assembling a dominating board presence.

Why Yasharn?

Yasharn, Implacable Earth has two clauses, each of which are important. Having access to Yasharn in the Command Zone with a reliable Turn 1 or 2 cast provides consistant stax to slow the game while we assemble our win conditions.

When Yasharn enters the battlefield, search your library for a basic Forest card and a basic Plains card, reveal those cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

This ability allows the deck to run fewer lands and keep riskier fast mana, as Yasharn grabs two more lands, setting us up for future turns.

Players can't pay life or sacrifice nonland permanents to cast spells or activate abilities.

This ability shuts off a suprising number of win conditions and value pieces including:

• Treasure-based combos, mainly using Dockside Extortionist

• Breach combos utilizing Lion's Eye Diamond

• Fast mana including cards like Lotus Petal and Culling the Weak

• Fetchlands like Arid Mesa and Horizon lands like Horizon Canopy

• Evolution strategies using Neoform , Eldritch Evolution , and Birthing Pod

• Artifact pod effect from Oswald Fiddlebender

• Card draw from Greater Good and Life's Legacy

• Sacrifice tutors like Diabolic Intent and Reshape

• Paying life to Bolas's Citadel , Necropotence , Vilis, Broker of Blood , etc.

• Common board wipes like Toxic Deluge and Fire Covenant

• Free-casted Force of Will

• Sacrifice abilities of of cards like Hope of Ghirapur , Ranger-Captain of Eos , and Aura of Silence

• Mana sources like Ashnod's Altar , Phyrexian Altar , and Phyrexian Tower

Notable exclusions:

• Triggered abilities such as Tymna the Weaver

• Paying life as a part of resolution (not cast) such as Vampiric Tutor

• Damage/pain lands like City of Brass and Brushland

• Sacrificing lands without paying life such as Crystal Vein , Sylvan Safekeeper , and Crop Rotation

Strategy

We're aiming to get Yasharn out on Turn 1 or Turn 2 with a combination of fast mana.

The Yasharn ETB land tutor stabilizes the deck by giving us land drops for the next two turns, and the stax effects on Yasharn stops most fast win conditions by killing treature-based combos, most card draw, and common board wipes.

Because Yasharn shuts off so many key game pieces, we can be selective about stax pieces - specifically, we don't need to run Null Rod and Stony Silence , with the easily-tutorable Collector Ouphe taking only one slot. As a result, we can run some combos requiring artifacts including Umbral Mantle and Walking Ballista with a low chance of self-stax.

The deck focuses on incremental gain with no dead draws. Stax creatures double as combat threats, pump methods can provide incremental advantage, and combo pieces double as ramp or removal protection.

Community

Join us on Discord!

Yasharn Discord: https://discord.gg/27Kq2xtjzy

Rule of Law Discord: https://discord.gg/TsS2YrrNpf

Win Conditions

Generally, the deck tries to win with combat, either through slower buff or inifinte combos.

Infinite Mana

The deck has a couple ways to produce infinite mana:

• Seedcradle Witch + Selvala, Heart of the Wilds : Activate Selvala, floating 1W+3G, then activate Seedcradle targeting Selvala to untap. Repeat, gaining infinite mana from Selvala activations

• Umbral Mantle + Selvala, Heart of the Wilds / Priest of Titania : Attach Mantle to Selvala or Priest, then tap for mana and untap using Mantle, creating infinite mana

• Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Ley Weaver / Argothian Elder : Because Ashaya turns Weaver and Elder into forests, activate their ability targeting a land and themselves, allowing infinite activations netting infinite mana

• Seedcradle Witch / Umbral Mantle + Ley Weaver / Argothian Elder + Gaea's Cradle / Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx + another land: Activate Weaver/Elder to untap Cradle/Nyx and another land, then put the mana into Seedcradle/Mantle to untap Weaver/Elder. You'll need a relatively high devotion for Nykthos (something like 4/5 or for Mantle/Seedcradle) and at least 3 creatures for Cradle for net neutral mana.

Mana Outlets

Either with infinite mana or with leftover mana each turn, there are a couple ways to buff creatures or draw cards:

• Shalai, Voice of Plenty or Leyline of Abundance : pump with +1/+1 counters

• Seedcradle Witch : temporary pump and semi-vigilance

• Umbral Mantle : requires a tapped creature, so it only works for mana dorks or with Ashaya in play

• Ley Weaver or Argothian Elder (with Ashaya) + Bonders' Enclave : draw your deck

• Ley Weaver or Argothian Elder (with Ashaya) + Gavony Township : pump with +1/+1 counters

• Walking Ballista : dump mana to add counters then ping opponents to zero

Other Buff Methods

• Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite : game-ender due to buff and removal combination

• Heliod, Sun-Crowned : slow pump and life stabilization in long games

• Allosaurus Shepherd : pumps mana dorks

• Serra Ascendant : not a pump method, but effectively pressures life totals of Ad Naus decks

Non-Combat Win Conditions

• Walking Ballista + Heliod, Sun-Crowned : combo to ping opponents life totals to zero

Stax and Interaction

Interactive Stax

Generally, the deck uses an early Yasharn to shut down common early-win combo lines and ramp. We then want to use a combination of Rule of Law and tax effects to slow things down and discourage instant-speed interaction by eating up mana. Additionally, by playing around Rule of Law effects, it can be easier to resolve instant-speed tutors on another player's turn.

• Rule of Law and tax effects: Deafening Silence , Archon of Emeria , Eidolon of Rhetoric , Ethersworn Canonist , Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Protection

To make sure our stax and combo pieces resolve and stick, the deck runs a number of protection pieces:

• Counter protection: Allosaurus Shepherd , Destiny Spinner , Archon of Valor's Reach (on Instant), Grand Abolisher , Veil of Summer , Cavern of Souls , Dragonlord Dromoka

• Removal protection: Ashaya, Soul of the Wild , Guardian Augmenter , Sanctum Prelate (on 2 CMC), Chalice of the Void (on 2 CMC), Shalai, Voice of Plenty , Sylvan Safekeeper , Archon of Valor's Reach (on Instant), Eldrazi Displacer (blink in response to targeted removal, steal back from Gilded Drake , etc.)

Other Stax

The deck runs a couple other common and useful stax pieces which help prevent our opponents from getting the upper hand:

• Library search: Aven Mindcensor

• Artifacts: Collector Ouphe

• Commanders: Drannith Magistrate

• Activated abilities: Linvala, Keeper of Silence

• Graveyard: Sanctifier en-Vec - Yasharn stops any lines requiring LED, so not much graveyard hate is needed

Removal

• Graveyard removal / Thassa's Oracle stop: Endurance

• General removal: Skyclave Apparition

• Creature removal: Solitude , Walking Ballista , Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite , Kogla, the Titan Ape , Eldrazi Displacer (blinks other removal, stops Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker , etc.)

• Artifact/Enchantment removal: Kogla, the Titan Ape

Card Advantage

The deck runs plenty of tutors and some pieces of general card advantage to keep things running smoothly. Generally, the turbo card advantage of most cEDH decks is not needed in Rule of Law strategies, as slowing the game down means less raw card draw is needed, meaning we favor tutor and dig effects more. Also, since the banning of Hullbreacher , cards like Toski and Frostfang are good again.

• Creature tutors: Vivien, Monsters' Advocate , Yisan, the Wanderer Bard , Fauna Shaman , Chord of Calling , Green Sun's Zenith , Eladamri's Call , Worldly Tutor , Finale of Devastation , Survival of the Fittest

• Other tutors: Enlightened Tutor , Crop Rotation , Yasharn, Implacable Earth

• Card advantage: Toski, Bearer of Secrets , Ohran Frostfang , Selvala, Heart of the Wilds , Once Upon a Time , Bonders' Enclave , Turntimber Symbiosis  , Sylvan Library , Esper Sentinel , Duskwatch Recruiter  

Mana Ramp

Most mana ramp is included for a Turn 1 or 2 Yasharn, with a couple cards also serving as combo pieces:

• Fast mana: Avacyn's Pilgrim , Birds of Paradise , Elvish Mystic , Elvish Spirit Guide , Fyndhorn Elves , Llanowar Elves , Bloom Tender , Jeweled Lotus , Lotus Petal , Mana Crypt , Mana Vault , Mox Diamond , Sol Ring , Carpet of Flowers , Wild Growth , Ancient Tomb , Crystal Vein , City of Traitors , Gemstone Caverns , Dryad Arbor (Green Sun's for zero)

• Value/combo-focused: Argothian Elder , Ley Weaver , Priest of Titania , Selvala, Heart of the Wilds , Leyline of Abundance , Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx , Gaea's Cradle

• Pure value: Eldrazi Displacer (blink Yasharn for more lands)

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	20 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.42
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Illusion X/X U
Folders	This looks dope.