Yarok: Throw your lands in the Air!

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai)

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Land (30)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Witch's Cottage
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Timetwister

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

Creature (26)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Arboreal Grazer
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Dream Stalker
• 1x Elvish Reclaimer
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Llanowar Scout
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Risen Reef
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Scout
• 1x Shrieking Drake
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Sygg, River Cutthroat
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1x Yarok's Fenlurker

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Dance of Many
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Mana Breach
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Overburden
• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1x Root Maze
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Commander (1)

Instant (20)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Banishing Knack
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Flash
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Artifact (4)

• 1x Amulet of Vigor
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Orb of Dreams

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Tactical Play with Yarok, Part 1

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Really Leaning into Midrange Now!

The list has really been showing its chops in soul-crushing grind sessions. In support of accentuating that, we've added more interaction, more land-oriented actions, and more sources of incremental card advantage.

Broad Strokes

Apply stax to slow the table, make people hate their lives, then go infinite and win.

Yarok doubles up on punishing passives like Overburden and also amplifies parity breakers like Lotus Cobra and Amulet of Vigor . This forms a great backbone to support lines involving Root Maze or Orb of Dreams . Under such lines, all your lands effectively get doubled and we have ways to reconcile Overburden returning two lands to hand whenever a creature enters. Arboreal Grazer and Elvish Pioneer scale along with Overburden (with or without Yarok) to break parity along that line and add a tap clause for lands to further embellish Amulet of Vigor . Burgeoning helps maintain a faster pace than the table as well, given the unique texture of a 'landless' table.

With Yarok on the table Shrieking Drake + Cloud of Faeries yields infinite mana. With infinite mana, Shrieking Drake + Coiling Oracle or similar draws the deck and lets you win via Laboratory Maniac .

Hulk Lines:

• With Yarok (): Cloud of Faeries + Coiling Oracle + Shrieking Drake , etc
• Without Yarok ( + draw): Spellseeker + Laboratory Maniac : Demonic Consultation

Survival of the Fittest + Necromancy (strung + + Yarok):

• Use Survival to put Cloud of Faeries + Dream Stalker + Coiling Oracle in the yard, reanimate Faeries and Stalker with Necromancy . Dream Stalker bounces Necromancy . Repeat for infinite mana, then switch to Stalker + Oracle.

Incidental Value

The number of 'incidental' lines under Yarok that let you gain advantage is positively enormous. I'll break those down soon... but they're things like this:

Overburden + Amulet of Vigor + Arboreal Grazer

• Grazer enters and creates 4 triggers. Let the two Overburden triggers resolve to return two lands, then let the two Arboreal Grazer triggers resolve to put them back into play. Each land will trigger Amulet of Vigor twice, so you'll get 4 mana for a single Grazer etb.

Risen Reef + Dance of Many

• Dance of Many enters triggering twice and creates two copies of Risen Reef . The first two Reefs see two elementals enter, the third sees itself, and each trigger is doubled so you get a total of 10 Risen Reef triggers for your investment.

Lotus Cobra + Tatyova, Benthic Druid + Crop Rotation

• Cast Crop Rotation and grab a fetchland. Both Lotus Cobra and Tatyova, Benthic Druid double trigger for the fetch and the fetch target so your works out to 4 mana, 4 cards, and an untapped land at instant speed.

... on and on and on ...

All these 'combos' are purely incidental, i.e., you'd never go looking for any of these card sequences, but they emerge along the way as you're setting up the actual lines you want. All the extra cards and mana provide plenty of support to fight through opponent interaction, making it more likely for you to succeed where a more canonical, tighter-margined line would get otherwise disrupted.

Top Ranked	Achieved #11 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #7 position in Commander / EDH 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 57 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.01
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone
Folders	cEDH, CEDH, Inspiration, cedh, MISC, shit i like, Neat, Commander / EDH, Inspiration, cEDH