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Zootopia - Yarok edition

Commander / EDH Bird Bracket 3 BUG (Sultai) Landfall

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Land Deployment and Throughput (13)

Other (11)

Interaction Protection and Control (8)

Landfall Payoffs (7)

New (5)

Resource Conversion (4)

Land Copy Package (2)

Land Loam Cycling Package (2)

Top Deck Control and Access (1)

Discovery and Package Assembly (12)

Land Engine and Utility (11)

Land Fetch Infrastructure (9)

Mana Production and Untapping (7)

Placeholder (5)

Card Draw (3)

Testing (3)

Legacy (2)

Commander (1)

Commander: Yarok, the Desecrated

Recursion and Replay (12)

Land Typed Foundation and Basic Reserve (10)

Amplification (5)

Card Flow and Top Control (5)

Resource Conversion and Payoffs (5)

Land Artifact Package (2)

Life Engine (2)

Sideboard

Legacy (18)

Discovery and Package Assembly (2)

Recursion and Replay (2)

Amplification (1)

Resource Conversion and Payoffs (1)

Land Deployment and Throughput (7)

Interaction Protection and Control (5)

Land Generic Fixing (4)

Tested (3)

Other (2)

Landfall Payoffs (1)

Placeholder (7)

Mana Production and Untapping (5)

Card Flow and Top Control (3)

Land Typed Foundation and Basic Reserve (3)

Land Artifact Package (2)

Life Engine (1)

Maybeboard

Other (10)

Mana Production and Untapping (4)

Testing (3)

Discovery and Package Assembly (2)

Card Flow and Top Control (1)

Land Fetch Infrastructure (1)

Land Loam Cycling Package (1)

New (1)

Land Deployment and Throughput (7)

Interaction (4)

Resource Conversion (4)

Card Draw (2)

Landfall Payoffs (2)

Interaction Protection and Control (1)

Placeholder (1)

Recursion and Replay (6)

Land Engine and Utility (5)

Amplification (3)

Top Deck Control and Access (3)

Life Engine (2)

Land Copy Package (1)

Welcome to Zootopia

LOCKED / PLANNED MAINBOARD SWAPS Rhystic Study OUT → Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait IN Oracle of Mul Daya OUT → Icetill Explorer IN Ob Nixilis, the Fallen OUT → Retreat to Hagra IN Sylvan Library OUT → Tatyova, Benthic Druid IN Cultivate OUT → Tireless Provisioner IN Harrow OUT → Tireless Tracker IN Bogwater Lumaret OUT → Mockingbird IN Jaddi Offshoot OUT → Springheart Nantuko IN CONFIRMED OUT / SEAT NOT YET FILLED Muldrotha, the Gravetide OUT → ______ Deliberately blank. We are not stuffing Gitrog into the Muldrotha-shaped hole merely because it fits. SIDEBOARD / TESTING HOUSEKEEPING Exploration → Maybeboard while Burgeoning gets its test period. Elves of Deep Shadow — OUT Elvish Mystic — OUT Essence Warden — OUT / retained physically Explore — OUT NOT DECIDED YET — DO NOT TOUCH Arcane Signet Carpet of Flowers Entomb — Mole Man was only a maybe Farseek — HOLD, because Mystic Sanctuary access matters Lithoform Engine → Virtue of Knowledge — ? Sakura-Tribe Elder → Walking Atlas — ? Studious First-Year → Wood Elves — ? STILL NEED CHAIRS

After the locked Legacy swaps, the remaining IWANTS still seeking mainboard seats are:

Awaken the Woods Mole Man, Moloid Master Zimone and Dina

Maybeboard explanation 1. Academy Ruins: Passes card evaluation; unresolved problem is land-slot competition. 2. Amulet of Vigor — KEEP. With Yarok, tapped bounce lands generate two Amulet untap triggers, allowing mana production between resolutions; distinct from Spelunking because it creates exploitable untap events rather than changing how lands enter. Venn: Battlefield. 3. An Offer You Can’t Refuse: Credible reactive candidate; no vacancy established. 4. Bala Ged Recovery: Strong flexible recursion candidate; no identified vacancy. 5. Boseiju, Who Endures: Strong utility-land candidate. Acquire. 6. Buried Ruin: Strong artifact-recursion candidate; utility-land competition is the hurdle. 7. Chocobo Racetrack: Needs evidence. 8. Clifftop Lookout: Credible Yarok ETB/land-deployment candidate. 9. Constant Mists: Strong defensive candidate; repeatable Fog integrates naturally with land recursion. 10. Courser of Kruphix: Functional, but vacancy-dependent. 11. Dakmor Salvage: Credible dredge-land candidate; utility-land pressure is the hurdle. 12. Drownyard Temple: Strong low-reliance utility land; excellent land-sacrifice compatibility. 13. Dryad Arbor: KEEP — enables Green Sun's Zenith to function as one-mana land ramp at X=0; if Green Sun's Zenith leaves the deck, Dryad Arbor leaves with it. 14. Echoing Deeps: Strong land-slot candidate; at floor functions as a tenth fetchland, while its ceiling copies premium utility lands or Vesuva for additional Field of the Dead scaling. 15. Emeritus of Woe: Strong candidate to replace Demonic Tutor. 16. Endurance — KEEP. Flexible graveyard protection/reset that can answer targeted graveyard hate and recycle our own graveyard when necessary; creature body keeps it compatible with the deck’s permanent infrastructure. Venn: Battlefield ∩ Graveyard. 17. Exploration Broodship: Strong candidate; natural Zombie production makes Station 8 realistic. 18. Foreboding Landscape: Credible candidate, but below premium utility lands. 19. Glasspool Mimic: Credible amplification candidate; flexible but requires a worthwhile creature. 20. Golgari Rot Farm — KEEP. Bounce-land infrastructure that returns utility lands to hand for reuse and becomes a mana/landfall engine with Atlas + Amulet/Yarok. Venn: Battlefield ∩ Hand. 21. Hedge Maze: Credible typed-land candidate; ETB-tapped risk is significant. 22. Hedron Crab/Ruin Crab: Strong mill/landfall candidate with very low reliance. 23. Hostage Taker — Strong interaction candidate. Removes an opposing artifact or creature while potentially converting it into our resource; excellent against permanent-based control pieces. Venn: Battlefield. 24. Iridescent Vinelasher: Strong landfall payoff with multiplayer reach. 25. Kiora’s Follower: Credible utility candidate; broad compatibility but target-dependent. 26. Loot, Exuberant Explorer: Strong multi-role candidate; replacement slot is the hurdle. 27. Lumra, Bellow of the Woods: Strong late-game land-recovery candidate. 28. Malakir Rebirth: Strong low-reliance protection/recovery candidate. 29. Mana Drain — KEEP for interaction pass. Premium stack interaction with meaningful mana conversion; evaluate later against the deck’s overall interaction package rather than land architecture. Venn: Outside model. 30. Meloku the Clouded Mirror — PARKED behind stronger land-return options. Reusable Battlefield→Hand land recycling plus token production, but comparatively mana-intensive and creature-exposed. Venn: Battlefield ∩ Hand. 31. Mirrorpool: Credible amplification land; flexible but activation-heavy. 32. Mox Opal: Weak current candidate; artifact density is insufficiently reliable. 33. Narset’s Reversal — KEEP for interaction pass. Flexible protection/tempo tool that returns a spell to hand while copying it; useful against removal, tutors, and high-impact instants/sorceries. Venn: Hand. 34. Nimble Obstructionist — Credible interaction candidate. Cycling converts Hand→Graveyard while countering an activated or triggered ability and replacing itself; recursion-compatible creature afterward. Venn: Hand ∩ Graveyard. 35. Nissa of Shadowed Boughs: KEEP — landfall-amplified repeatable creature deployment/recursion. The “lands you control” restriction aligns with the deck's existing six-mana curve and seven-land Field threshold, so it imposes essentially no additional construction burden. 36. Oboro, Palace in the Clouds — EMERGENCY COMBO VALVE / NOT FOR NORMAL BUILD 37. Otawara, Soaring City: Strong low-reliance interaction/utility-land candidate. 38. Princess Yue: Credible top-deck utility candidate; premium land competition is the hurdle. 39. Ramunap Excavator: Strong land-recursion candidate; redundancy must justify the slot. 40. Repudiate // Replicate — KEEP. Preferred over Stifle because Repudiate answers activated/triggered abilities while Replicate gives the card a real Yarok-compatible creature-copying second job. Venn: Battlefield. 41. Seasons Past: Credible late-game recovery bomb; too heavy for ordinary infrastructure. 42. Simic Growth Chamber — KEEP. Same structural role as Rot Farm: repeatable Battlefield→Hand land recycling, landfall generation, and strong Amulet/Atlas interaction. Venn: Battlefield ∩ Hand. 43. Spelunking: Independently employed through ETB card replacement and land deployment; removes ETB-tapped friction from the bounce-land architecture; Yarok amplifies its ETB into additional draw/deployment opportunities. Strong floor before considering cascade ceiling. 44. Springheart Nantuko: Strong amplification/landfall candidate. 45. Squandered Resources — KEEP. High natural employment as land-to-mana conversion; excellent compatibility with land recursion and Awaken the Woods, but use becomes deliberately conservative under graveyard exile. 46. Tale’s End — Strong interaction benchmark. Broader than Stifle because it also counters legendary spells, but currently behind Repudiate // Replicate for Yarok-specific employment. Venn: Outside model. 47. The Gitrog Monster: Strong multi-role land engine; powerful but comparatively heavy. 48. Three Visits: Strong low-reliance land-deployment infrastructure. 49. Tishana’s Tidebinder — KEEP. Flash interaction creature that counters activated/triggered abilities and can disable the originating permanent; Yarok can amplify its ETB trigger when multiple abilities matter. Venn: Battlefield. 50. Trade Routes — LOCK-level structural candidate. Battlefield→Hand land recycling without graveyard reliance, plus Hand→Graveyard land conversion into cards when the graveyard is safe. Directly strengthens the alternate circulation route. Venn: CENTER — Battlefield ∩ Hand ∩ Graveyard. 51. Treasure Vault: Credible artifact utility land; colorless and mana-intensive. 52. Valley Floodcaller: Strong flash/untap utility candidate with broad compatibility. 53. Virtue of Knowledge: Strong ETB/landfall amplification candidate. 54. Volo, Guide to Monsters — Strong amplification candidate. Creature-type overlap is manageable in the current build, and ordinary creature casting can generate additional bodies without requiring Yarok itself. Venn: Battlefield. 55. Volrath’s Stronghold: Strong repeatable creature-recursion utility land. 56. Walking Atlas: Credible throughput candidate; generally outcompeted by Sakura-Tribe Scout. 57. Wood Elves: Strong Yarok-compatible land-deployment creature. 58. Yisan, the Wanderer Bard: Credible package-assembly candidate; slow and highly visible. 59. Zuran Orb: Strong land-to-life resource-conversion candidate.

Reviewed and removed

  1. Consign to Memory: narrow triggered-only coverage, and replicate requires unusually favorable multi-trigger stack states to provide meaningful upside.
  2. Dryad of the Ilysian Grove: Extra land play alone does not justify it over Exploration; mana fixing is unnecessary.
  3. Hedge Shredder: Mill-to-land recovery has insufficient natural employment; it relies too heavily on dedicated mill/Loam-style support to justify the slot.
  4. Kadena’s Silencer: potentially huge multiplayer blowout, but requires dedicated face-down setup and favorable stack density; too much construction friction outside a Morph shell.
  5. Stifle: Exceptional one-mana activated/triggered interaction, but superseded by candidates offering substantially greater utility for a modest increase in cost.
  6. Sylvan Safekeeper: Strong targeted protection, but among our land-sacrifice options its output is least relevant; Squandered Resources advances the engine and Zuran Orb provides broader emergency resilience, while Safekeeper answers neither board wipes nor graveyard hate.
  7. Trickbind: exceptionally secure ability interaction through split second, but too specialized compared with Tale’s End and Repudiate // Replicate at the same mana cost, while Tidebinder offers much greater persistent value.
  8. Willbender: Powerful and amusing redirection ceiling, but Morph imposes too much setup and mana friction without dedicated face-down support.

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