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Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord · BG · 100 cards · 38 lands
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Strategy
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord leads a deck built from the cards players most often run with it, filling the graveyard and bringing threats back from it. The list holds 12 ramp pieces, 9 pieces of targeted interaction, 2 board wipes and 9 sources of card draw, at an average mana value of 3.08.
Early: Use the early turns on mana. Skull Prophet and the rest of the 12 ramp pieces are what let the deck cast Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord on curve and keep casting after it.
Mid: Once the commander is down, the deck wants to be doing two things at once: advancing its own board and answering everyone else's. Assassin's Trophy is the first answer you will usually reach for, and Grisly Salvage keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Golgari Charm for the turn the table gets ahead of you - with 2 in the deck you can afford to use one early and still have an answer later. At 3.08 average mana value the top end is middling, which means most turns hold two spells.
Win conditions: Wins by putting something far too large onto the battlefield far too early, repeatedly.
- Lord of Extinction - Core to the plan
- Splinterfright - Core to the plan
- Old Stickfingers - Core to the plan
- Skull Prophet - Ramp
- Golgari Grave-Troll - Core to the plan
- Nighthowler - Core to the plan
- Yargle and Multani - Core to the plan
- Mortivore - Core to the plan
~$412.77
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Legendary Creature — Zombie Elf
Jarad 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.
Creatures (45)
Lord of Extinction
Creature — Elemental
$0.79
Lord of Extinction's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in all graveyards.
Splinterfright
Creature — Elemental
$0.27
Trample
Splinterfright's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
At the beginning of your upkeep, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Old Stickfingers
Legendary Creature — Horror
$0.3
When you cast this spell, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X creature cards. Put all creature cards revealed this way into your graveyard, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Old Stickfingers's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
Skull Prophet
Creature — Human Druid
$0.79
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
{T}: Mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Golgari Grave-Troll
Creature — Troll Skeleton
$0.82
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.
Dredge 6 (If you would draw a card, you may mill six cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Nighthowler
Enchantment Creature — Horror
$0.23
Bestow {2}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.
Mortivore
Creature — Lhurgoyf
$0.35
Mortivore's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards.
{B}: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
Nyx Weaver
Enchantment Creature — Spider
$0.23
Reach
At the beginning of your upkeep, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
{1}{B}{G}, Exile this creature: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Stitcher's Supplier
Creature — Zombie
$0.23
When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Creature — Snake Shaman
$0.34
Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Eternal Witness
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.72
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Wight of the Reliquary
Creature — Zombie Knight
$0.42
Vigilance
This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Satyr Wayfinder
Creature — Satyr
$0.06
When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.
Brawn
Creature — Incarnation
$0.41
Trample
As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Forest, creatures you control have trample.
Aftermath Analyst
Creature — Elf Detective
$0.71
When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
{3}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Underrealm Lich
Creature — Zombie Elf Shaman
$8.15
If you would draw a card, instead look at the top three cards of your library, then put one into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Pay 4 life: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.
Ghoultree
Creature — Zombie Treefolk
$0.27
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Stinkweed Imp
Creature — Imp
$1.1
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature.
Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
World Shaper
Creature — Merfolk Shaman
$6.13
Whenever this creature attacks, you may mill three cards.
When this creature dies, return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Golgari Thug
Creature — Human Warrior
$0.33
When this creature dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, you may mill four cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Boneyard Wurm
Creature — Wurm
$0.12
Boneyard Wurm's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
Fiend Artisan
Creature — Nightmare
$4.48
This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
{X}{B/G}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.
Ramunap Excavator
Creature — Snake Cleric
$4.79
You may play lands from your graveyard.
Daemogoth Titan
Creature — Demon
$1.27
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice a creature.
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Legendary Creature — Human Knight
$1.21
Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Elves of Deep Shadow
Creature — Elf Druid
$4.42
{T}: Add {B}. This creature deals 1 damage to you.
Reclamation Sage
Creature — Elf Shaman
$0.19
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Honest Rutstein
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock
$0.37
When Honest Rutstein enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Deathrite Shaman
Creature — Elf Shaman
$4.69
{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color. (Activate only as an instant.)
{B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life.
{G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.
Disciple of Bolas
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.36
When this creature enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Souls of the Lost
Creature — Spirit
$0.28
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or sacrifice a permanent.
Fathomless descent — Souls of the Lost's power is equal to the number of permanent cards in your graveyard and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.
Icetill Explorer
Creature — Insect Scout
$19.66
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
You may play lands from your graveyard.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, mill a card.
Six
Legendary Creature — Treefolk
$4.81
Reach
Whenever Six attacks, mill three cards. You may put a land card from among them into your hand.
During your turn, nonland permanent cards in your graveyard have retrace. (You may cast permanent cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)
Springbloom Druid
Creature — Elf Druid
$0.12
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Deathbloom Ritualist
Creature — Elf Warlock
$0.38
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
Sheoldred, Whispering One
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
$18.58
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
Legendary Creature — Elf Shaman
$0.35
Undergrowth — When Izoni enters, create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token for each creature card in your graveyard.
{B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.
Beast Whisperer
Creature — Elf Druid
$7.61
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.
Shriekmaw
Creature — Elemental
$0.22
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Ravenous Chupacabra
Creature — Beast Horror
$0.41
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Instants (12)
Assassin's Trophy
Instant
$0.84
Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Grisly Salvage
Instant
$0.13
Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.
Vampiric Tutor
Instant
$51
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Worldly Tutor
Instant
$26.28
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.
Putrefy
Instant
$0.16
Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.
Beast Within
Instant
$0.61
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Abrupt Decay
Instant
$1.11
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.
Golgari Charm
Instant
$0.77
Choose one —
• All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Regenerate each creature you control.
Overwhelming Remorse
Instant
$0.24
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.
Return of the Wildspeaker
Instant
$1.43
Choose one —
• Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control.
• Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.
Momentous Fall
Instant
$3.68
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
You draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then you gain life equal to its toughness.
Village Rites
Instant
$0.28
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Sorceries (4)
Victimize
Sorcery
$0.55
Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.
Reanimate
Sorcery
$6.93
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
Demonic Tutor
Sorcery
$62.17
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Living Death
Sorcery
$3.12
Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Lands (38)
Dakmor Salvage
Land
$0.29
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Bojuka Bog
Land
$1.24
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.
Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
Land
$0.21
{T}: Add {C}.
{3}{B}{G}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a black and green Plant Zombie creature with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard." It's still a land.
Rogue's Passage
Land
$0.39
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Legendary Land
$55.46
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Legendary Land
$17.03
Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.
Shifting Woodland
Land
$7.07
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
Delirium — {2}{G}{G}: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
Legendary Land
$11.85
{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Boseiju, Who Endures
Legendary Land
$48.29
{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Crypt of Agadeem
Land
$4.05
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.
Mortuary Mire
Land
$0.29
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
{T}: Add {B}.
Mosswort Bridge
Land
$0.3
Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.
Basic lands: 12 Swamp 14 Forest
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