Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Legendary Creature — Zombie Elf

This gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.

{1}{B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Combos

• Golgari Grave-Troll + Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord + Splinterfright
• Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord + Ob Nixilis, Unshackled

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

FauxFaux on Card creation challenge

1 day ago

Well, tiny lore drop:

• Svogthos, the Restless Tomb was shattered during the Phyrexian Invasion by Realmbreaker from the then Compleated Vraska.

• The Sisters of Stone Death, namely three Gorgons by the names of Ludmilla, Lexya and Lydya, the latter two were killed by Savra, Queen of the Golgari, and Ludmilla is presumed dead, although not confirmed.

• Both Savra, Queen of the Golgari and Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, sister Savra was killed by Szadek, Lord of Secrets then her body possessed by the spirit of Svogthir, the Golgari Parun (founder), then smooshed by Experiment Kraj. Brother Jarad was first killed by Lyzolda, the Blood Witch, then necromanced back into his corpse to then be killed by Vraska, with the help of Jarga, a troll, Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest, and Xeddick, another Kraul.

• Vraska, Golgari Queen is obviously off and romping about the multiverse with Jace Beleren and Loot, the Key to Everything. So she's not really in command at the moment. Matter of fact, following the Phyrexian Invasion, pretty much every former Golgari leader denounced her as their leader, as during the Invasion, the Golgari were the first Compleated Guild to rampage across the surface, so they were summarily punished and ostracized from Ravnica.

And so, that leaves us, after all those wordy words, to the only real appropriate options...

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Svogthos, Splintered Tomb

Legendary Land - Swamp Forest

Whenever ~ enters, mill 5.

At the beginning of your endstep, if there are 4 or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may exile ~ and return it to the battlefield transformed.

{T}, Mill 2: Add {B}{G}.

"Svogthos, shattered in twain by the Phyrexian upshoot, acts now as the only solace for the disgraced Golgari Swarm. None but the Swarm gather there, dutifully attempting to retain the crypt's former visage."

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Izoni, Heir to the Swarm ({B}{G})

Legendary Creature - Elf Shaman

Whenever ~ enters or a land is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you create a 1/1 Black and Green Insect creature Token. This ability triggers once each turn.

{T}, Tap any number of untapped Insects or Spiders you control: Return target creature with mana value equal to or less than the amount of creatures tapped this way from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature becomes a Plant Zombie instead of its other types.

"Vraska is gone and has betrayed the Swarm. It deserves one willing to foster and nurture the betrayed. Not one who uses it as a mere title."

4/4

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Sorry for the Lore Dump, but challenge is to redo this challenge, but for another guild! Perhaps Dimir? or Rakdos?

PhotogenicParasympathetic on Card creation challenge

2 days ago

Vivien, Herald of the Boar {2}{G}{G}

Legendary Planeswalker - Vivien

Legendary creatures you control have "When this creature dies, you may put it into your library third from the top."

+1 Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in any order.

-1 You may put a legendary creature card from your hand onto the battlefield, and it gains haste until end of turn. If you do, sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

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Partner with Ilharg, God of the Wilds

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Ilharg, God of the Wilds {2}{R}{R}{G}

Whenever ~ enters or attacks, reveal the top three cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards from among them onto the battlefield. Put an additional loyalty counter onto each planeswalker that enters the battlefield in this way.

Planeswalkers you control have hexproof and "If this permanent would die, put it into your library third from the top instead."

Partner with Vivien, Herald of the Boar.

5/6

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That was fun! Next, create a team-up (partner, or just one card for both characters) of any two of the Golgari leadership.

Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
Sisters of Stone Death
Savra, Queen of the Golgari
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Vraska, Golgari Queen
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed

AkaAkuma on What if I changed Vorosh to Partners?

2 days ago

How do Reyhan and Ishai serve you over Vorosh? I like your little Incubation Druid + Llanowar Reborn synergy, I might try this!

Speaking of creatures that like a graft, you should check Basking Broodscale which can go infinite with every other card...

Perhaps Agonasaur Rex is also a card worth considering. It grants a card, counters and evasion/protection in a pinch, but it also has a little synergy with the likes of Evolution Witness. Rex can be recurred continually, serving as a counter and carddraw manasink.

And perhaps i am mistaken, but i miss a bit of Oomph in the decklist. Any thoughts on Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord (usually 7 mana wincon), The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride (usually 5 mana win next turn) or Blade of Selves (swing with Reyhan, place 6 x 3 counters on anything)?

Ratjarrr on Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest EDH

8 months ago

I think Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord could be a great addition to this deck

SteelSentry on As many synergies as possible

8 months ago

the Warrior creature type also opens up tribal and party synergy cards. It's harder with only creatures, but there is a genre of "big, recursive threats" like Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis or Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord that you can use the creature based entomb effects to grab. That would let you jam power-matters cards like Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar (who is an elf btw).

SteelSentry on Golgari commander deck Opinions

1 year ago

I run Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord in a couple of decks in the 99. My two favorite cards to pair with him are Mossbridge Troll which is especially easy to activate if Jarad is big enough, and Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar as a way to close out games, being able to recur itself and sac multiple times if you're running out of gas.

RockIV on Golgari commander deck Opinions

1 year ago

Hi everyone, ive been recently building some commander decks. Lately ive made a monoblack commander, but after playing with it, i decided to transform it into a golgari.

Rocks Golgari power of death Commander

Im using Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord as my commander, my strategy is going to summon big creatures and sacrifice them (in the right moment) to do damage to all my oponents.

im using some reanimator spells to be able to bring them back, like Entomb, Buried Alive, Exhume. Animate Dead, etc. I decided not to include Reanimate, because of the life loss.

right now, i included more than 15 mana ramps, to be able to get the enought mana to cast the strong creatures as early as i can.

i still not shure if the creatures i choose are the correct ones, and also if the number of creatures is the correct.

i feel that creatures like Desecration Demon, Spiritmonger and Skarrg Goliath can be replaced for something better like, a Terastodon or a Hydra Broodmaster

what do you guys think? suggestion will be deeply apreciated.

ty for everyone that read or comment on this post and in the last one too :D

DreadKhan on Edh options

1 year ago

He's not heavily played, but Kresh the Bloodbraided can do some absolutely nutso things when he's big enough, and the deck often has some control elements (especially vs creatures, the deck wants to kill off everything but Kresh typically). It can be built on a budget (for Casual play) or as a High Power deck. On a budget you run all of the Merciless Executioner effects you can find, and at higher power you'll still run a bunch of them, but you'll also have Dictate of Erebos effects. Rite of the Raging Storm by itself turns Kresh into a huge body, and it's easy to include lots of Flings/Chandra's Ignition/Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord to win, but you can also use stuff like Mandate of Abaddon to wipe the board and one-shot someone, there are a TON of cards that play very well with Kresh, and people probably aren't familiar with the deck at this point.

Another option might be Azorius Control, Azorius is a great pair for wipes, removal and countermagic, meaning you can deal with problems, both for yourself as well as the table. I guess you might go something like Shorikai, Genesis Engine and play any vehicles that don't suck? You can freely wipe your pilots without risking your vehicles, even without things like Teferi's Protection. The card draw Shorikai offers can really help you dig, and it synergizes with untap effects.

My final idea would be something like Sauron, the Dark Lord, Grixis gives you a lot of control options, and Sauron makes you a big honking army very readily, and fwiw you can make an evasive Changeling (like Changeling Outcast) your Army in place of a token. Grixis struggles a bit vs certain types of permanents, but you can certainly pressure people and have input as to what stays around.

Oh yeah, just thought of a bad idea I've never gotten around to testing, but you might be able to build Optimus Prime, Hero  ^Flip with all the Jeskai wipes you can find? Optimus can 'survive' a wipe, so as long as you can give him Haste somehow you can swing each turn vs a cleared board, wiping whenever anyone gets anything relevant out. Would it be obnoxious? Incredibly so. But I think it could work, especially since you have Red for various good Haste sources. You probably need lots of things to protect Optimus from Swords effects, including a smattering of Blue counters that are either free or cost {U} so you can hold them up.

Taking a look at other people's ideas, I support Karazikar and Breena, both seem like great fits!