Jarad is countin' cards! [Primer]

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Bracket 3 Mill Reanimator Sacrifice

Superspek

Lands (38)

• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Boggart Trawler
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Disciple of Freyalise
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 10x Forest
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Necroblossom Snarl
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Tangled Florahedron
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Vernal Fen
• 1x Viridescent Bog
• 1x Witch's Cottage
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Powerhouses (5)

• 1x Boneyard Mycodrax
• 1x Souls of the Lost
• 1x Splinterfright
• 1x Stubborn Burrowfiend
• 1x Wight of the Reliquary

The Big 5 (5)

• 1x Cemetery Tampering
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Out of the Tombs
• 1x Ripples of Undeath
• 1x Tortured Existence

Mill (17)

• 1x Aftermath Analyst
• 1x Colossal Grave-Reaver
• 1x Dune Chanter
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Lasyd Prowler
• 1x Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
• 1x Mindwrack Harpy
• 1x Nyx Weaver
• 1x Seedship Broodtender
• 1x Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
• 1x Sludge Titan
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Trystan, Callous Cultivator
• 1x World Shaper

Removal (10)

• 1x Accursed Marauder
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Bone Shredder
• 1x Cankerbloom
• 1x Foundation Breaker
• 1x Insidious Fungus
• 1x Keeper of the Dead
• 1x Massacre Girl
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Skyfisher Spider

Alternative gameplan (3)

• 1x Brawn
• 1x Dreadhound
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim

Card advantage (2)

• 1x Corpse Augur
• 1x Unshakable Tail

Commander (1)

Ramp (10)

• 1x Bramble Familiar
• 1x Diligent Farmhand
• 1x Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1x Honest Rutstein
• 1x Krosan Restorer
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Trailtracker Scout

Recursion (9)

• 1x Genesis
• 1x Kagha, Shadow Archdruid
• 1x Osteomancer Adept
• 1x Six
• 1x Terror of Towashi
• 1x Undead Butler
• 1x Undertaker
• 1x Viconia, Drow Apostate
• 1x Whisper, Blood Liturgist

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Maybeboard

Creature maybies (18)

• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Dawntreader Elk
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Greenseeker
• 1x Honest Rutstein
• 1x Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
• 1x Moon-Vigil Adherents
• 1x Neverwinter Dryad
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Rainveil Rejuvenator
• 1x Sanguine Spy
• 1x Sewer Nemesis
• 1x Shambling Shell
• 1x Soul of Innistrad
• 1x Tato Farmer
• 1x Undercity Informer
• 1x Underrealm Lich

Land maybies (8)

• 1x Conduit Pylons
• 1x Hidden Grotto
• 1x Kazandu Mammoth
• 1x Shifting Woodland
• 1x Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
• 1x Tomb Fortress
• 1x Underground Mortuary
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Noncreature maybies (8)

• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Hedge Shredder
• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Nature's Resurgence
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Terror Tide

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Jarad is countin' cards!

This is a classic Golgari graveyard deck with some interesting deck building choices. My commander is Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, who wants to see creatures in the graveyard and see some real power on the board. This deck needs some help in certain departments, such as land choice, removal choice and overall balance. If you have a suggestion for a card or you see a card in the maybeboard that I definitely need to run, please let me know! Also tell me what you think of my deck and my choices, I would love to hear all input or how you run your golgari graveyard decks with Jarad.

Main strategy:

• Mill myself to put creatures in the graveyard with single-use effects like Stitcher's Supplier or continuous effects like Mindwrack Harpy.
• Bring a creature such as Splinterfright or Wight of the Reliquary back from the graveyard with huge power and toughness (see 'Powerhouses').
• Use Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord's activated ability to kill my opponents.

Alternative strategies:

• Kill opponents slowly using Syr Konrad, the Grim or Dreadhound.
• Get a big creature through in combat using Rogue's Passage or Brawn.
• Go wide and overwhelm my opponents with a small army using Colossal Grave-Reaver or Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist.

Deckbuilding choices:

• Creature cards > non-creature cards. I would rather run Viconia, Drow Apostate than Oversold Cemetery, not for strength but for synergy and flavor.
• Have a maximum of 5 nonland noncreature cards with effects that are too good to pass up, such as Ripples of Undeath and Cemetery Tampering
• Cards with multiple uses > cards with 1 use. This just makes for more interesting lines of play and makes the deck more synergistic.
• Budget cards that get the job done > expensive cards that might be more efficient. I just don't want to spend 30 bucks on an Overlord of the Balemurk.
• Avoid cards that care little about the graveyard, such as Wall of Blood and Daemogoth Titan.
• Avoid tutors, if I can help it. I think tutors make decks a lot less interesting to play, as you can follow the same gameplan time and time again. Land tutors like Wight of the Reliquary are fine.

Example of a few cards that align with these deckbuilding choices:

Gameplan: Kagha, Shadow Archdruid, Seedship Broodtender and Nyx Weaver are creatures, puts creature cards in the graveyard, retrieve creature cards from graveyard, cost a few cents.

Ramp: Dawntreader Elk, Sakura-Tribe Elder and Diligent Farmhand are creatures, put themselves in the graveyard, give me permanent ramp, cost a few cents.

Removal: Shriekmaw, Foundation Breaker and Bone Shredder are creatures, deal with single target threats, put themselves in the graveyard, cost a few cents.

Known weaknesses:

• Exile effects like FarewellGC or Bojuka Bog.
• Opponents with aggro decks, as this deck takes some time to get going.
• Card advantage is highly dependent on retrieving cards from the graveyard using cards like Six to cast them from the graveyard, Whisper, Blood Liturgist to put them straight onto the battlefield or Undertaker to return cards to my hand.
• Milling myself out with cards like Mesmeric Orb or Out of the Tombs.

Please feel free to let me know what you think about this deck, how I could improve on it and what you think the weaknesses are that I missed. I would love to read your thoughts and opinions!

Date added	1 month
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.11
Tokens	Clue, Fanatic of Rhonas 4/4 B, On an Adventure, Worm 1/1 BG
Folders	Finished decks
Based on	Jarad first draft Superspek EDH