Aluren Yarok Reawakened!
Originally a brainchild of LabManiac_Sigi, Aluren Yarok is an adaptive combo list dedicated to abusing cards like Earthcraft and Aluren to net mana (or skip out on paying mana) from creature casts go off with infinite draw and bounce triggers you get from the countless Elvish Visionary -type creatures the deck runs. The deck also runs several powerful cEDH combo packages, like Demonic Consultation/Tainted Pact + Thassa's Oracle/Jace, Wielder of Mysteries, Notion Thief + Wheels, as well as Spellseeker + cheap reanimation effects that synergize with Yarok very well.
Combos
Below there are a few examples of how this deck can go off:
There are plenty more infinite combos when you mix and match with Aluren, Earthcraft + basics, Cloudstone Curio and pretty much every creature in the deck, especially Cloud of Faeries.
>####Casting Spellseeker, and getting infinite
>1. Cast
Spellseeker, fetching
Culling the Weak and
Unearth.
>2. Cast
Culling the Weak (
), sacing
Spellseeker. {
}
>3. Cast
Unearth, reanimating
Spellseeker. {
}
>4.
Spellseeker fetches
Entomb and
Reanimate
>5. Play
Entomb, putting
Eternal Witness in your graveyard. {
}
>6. Cast
Reanimate, reanimating
Eternal Witness. {
}
>7.
Eternal Witness gets back
Culling the Weak and
Unearth.
>8. Cast
Culling the Weak, sacing
Eternal Witness. {
}
>9. Cast
Unearth, reanimating
Eternal Witness {
}
>10.
Eternal Witness gets back
Culling the Weak and
Unearth
>11. Cast
Culling the Weak, sacing
Eternal Witness. {
}.
>You can now repeat casting
Culling the Weak and
Unearth, and reanimating
Eternal Witness for infinite
.
>
>####Converting infinite
into drawing your deck
>1. You should end the infinite
loop with reanimating
Eternal Witness a final time, and returning
Unearth and
Culling the Weak.
>2. Sacrifice
Spellseeker to
Culling the Weak.
>3. Cast
Unearth on
Spellseeker.
>4.
Spellseeker finds
Diabolic Intent +
Demonic Tutor
>5.
Demonic Tutor or
Diabolic Intent can find us
Necromancy.
>6. You can now start looping
Diabolic Intent,
Eternal Witness and either
Necromancy or
Unearth to find any number of cards.
>7. We find
Cloudstone Curio, and any other card we want. We make sure to leave
Cloud of Faeries and
Gaea's Cradle in our library.
>8. Cast
Cloudstone Curio.
>
>####Generating infinite mana of any color
>1. End the previous loop by Unearthing
Eternal Witness, and bringing back
Entomb and
Unearth.
>2.
Entomb, and put
Cloud of Faeries in the grave.
>3.
Unearth Cloud of Faeries, untap and tap 4 lands.
>4. Cast
Crop Rotation, finding
Gaea's Cradle if necessary.
>5. Cast any dork, bouncing
Cloud of Faeries.
>6. Keep bouncing, untapping and tapping for infinite mana.
>
>####Winning the game
>Now that we have infinite mana of any color, we can Twister-loop our way to victory, or just
Demonic Consultation +
Thassa's Oracle into a win.
Win Outlets
With infinite mana, draw and spell casts you're free to destroy all of opponent's permanents with Assassin's Trophy and create infinite Bird tokens with Swan Song by countering one of your own spells repeatedly. The deck also runs more than several 1-card wincons. Finale of Devastation, which can be used to pump and give haste to your creatures for lethal amounts of combat damage. In addition to Finale, you also can simply exile your deck to a Thassa's Oracle / Jace and win that way as well.
Strategy
Gameplay-wise, you have more than several plans to choose from:
Turbo Consult
Aim to land a dork or two, then use your on-the-field creature tutors to land Spellseeker and/or Thassa's Oracle, then win with Demonic Consultation that you can tutor off of the Spellseeker.
Yarok's Bouncy Castle
Aim for abusing Yarok with Cloud of Faeries, Shrieking Drake and an ETB draw creature. You can gather this package with the countless creature tutors the deck has, one of the most efficient being Survival of the Fittest due to our high creature count. When you achieve critical mass with mana-positive cards like Cloud of Faeries, Earthcraft/Gaea's Cradle (combined with Aluren) and bounce engines like Cavern Harpy and Cloudstone Curio, you can get insane mana production even without Yarok being on the field, allowing you to win from an unassuming board position as well.
All you need is Yarok in the field, Spellseeker and (see the lines above). Huge kudos to sonnyfelixo for this spice line, go upvote his list!
This list isn't the easiest one to win via main-phase Ad Nauseam without a ton of extra mana up, but end-step Naus lines are still pretty unpredictable because of your multiple available lines. If all you have is mana and a single tutor, Ad Naus takes the cake as your gas card.
Notion Thief has always been a borked card in cEDH, and flashing it in during an end-step and wheeling right after often is a game-ender. After Notion Wheeling, you can assemble a combo of your choice as per usual.
In addition to the card-specific gameplans, each engine card provides you with tons of mana advantage by themselves, so depending on your hand, tutoring for one of them or one of their respective combo pieces often provides you with a critical mass of resources to go off.
Discord
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