Yarok the Desecrated Commander Deck Tech

Yarok the Desecrated is value. Imagine everything you play getting DOUBLE the effect. I feel like I can flip through any binder and make this deck but I have some tips to help refine this commander.
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[@typoholic]

That ETB wording explanation is priceless. A great reminder, and Zegana is a perfect example. Thank you for having the foresight to cover that aspect when creating the video for this Commander. Well done.

[@matmosmac]

BTW, Temples won't "Scry 2". They will "Scry 1" an additional time.

[@SephyClone7]

Scry is a stackable ability. Like if you play a scry spell then copy it, instead of making things slow and scrying two separate times, you can just scry the full sum since you have the choice to keep the cards on top or the bottom in the order you desire

[@matmosmac]

@@SephyClone7 unless this is a new rule, I don't think you're correct. Scry 2 and Scry 1 twice can have two very different effects. Let's say, you Scry 2. You look at the top two cards from your library and decide what to do with each. No matter what, you always see both cards and can choose what to do with both. When you Scry 1 twice, you look at one card from the top of your library. If you keep it on top, you never get to see the second card. Quite different from Scry 2. I'm pretty sure this is how it works. I know you can put Scry 1 on the stack twice, but they each resolve separately. I've never heard of a "stackable ability". Unless it's a new thing. Maybe we can test it on MTGA or MTGO?

[@DVS57REBEL]

@@SephyClone7 incorrect not how the rules work. The information in scry 2 is stronger than scry then scry again, youd be cheating

[@devinanglin7116]

@@SephyClone7 That's incorrect.

[@SephyClone7]

My bad then. I think I got mixed up with the surveil enchantment that let's you surveil 2 additional times per surveil if I'm remembering it right

[@lawfullyblind8403]

I'm excited that you can double up landfall triggers

[@kevinchamp9722]

Love the extra interaction explanations. I've been playing for years and feel like I have a pretty good grasp on the rules but it is still nice to get reminders for corner cases.

[@wecoolwecoolbounce5191]

DJ, you're the best at all the fresh Commander deck techs. Thank you

[@KBgamer2010]

DJ, you will love this Yarok + Risen Reef + Zendikar's Roil = 1 Land > Get 2 Elementals > Get 4 Risen Reef Triggers > Repeat if you get a land Add Amulet of Vigor and you can play the rest of your hand Best part: Risen Reef doesn't say draw a card, so as long as you keep hitting lands with this combo, it repeats until you have no cards in your deck left

[@andrewpayseur]

DJ! Do the ETB tribe a.k.a. Allies! "When [CARDNAME] or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, do the thing." Yarok, "...I like that. Do it again."

[@stalkerstomper3304]

Allies? Nah. W/R are the base colors for Allies. The other colors are mostly light splashes.

[@andrewpayseur]

Stalker Stomper3 so there are 49 W, R, and WR Allies. There are 48 in the remaining colors. Not much difference if you ask me. Keep the best ones, fill in with clones, shapeshifter/changelings, and you’ve got yourself a deck.

[@mclark347]

You could, but I mean, Hagra Diabolist is the only ally you need.

[@DrukenReaps]

Thank you for addressing the rule confusion with ETB effects and clarifying it so simply. I knew there was a reason things like Prime Speaker wouldn't be doubled but I wasn't able to explain it to others...

[@moxavenger]

Thanks for more commander goodness! Always fun to watch.

[@anxez]

Beautiful thing with Faerie Artisans: It's effect triggers twice with Yarok. Yarok doesn't care if the thing entering the battlefield is yours or not, it just doubles the triggers you control. So you get two tokens and two etb effects for each of those tokens.

[@Psychopomp.B]

I know it sounds weird but for yarok, horror tribal anybody?

[@joelhockin281]

Wow really great video, I appreciate it, because you could have just called this one in and made an easy etb deck, but you went the extra mile to show all these other decks. I really didn't think I would like this guy, but you changed my mind with the Wizards and lands deck

[@TenSuns1914]

incredible! thank you for your time, efforts and information!

[@nofunintended8682]

So glad you made a deck tech on this!!!

[@sebastiencampeau4638]

Would like to see a omnath, locust of the roil deck tech next

[@samconsumespie1012]

Sébastien Campeau he is locus of the roil not locust

[@sebastiencampeau4638]

Aight my bad

[@Station9.75]

Sam Consumes Pie - You start sentences with a capital letter. So it’s “He” not “he”.

[@samconsumespie1012]

Station technically true but this is a KZbin comment thread not an essay with that logic you could also say that omnath isn’t a he and is rather an it

[@ChillyJack]

@@samconsumespie1012 You're not a very smart person, are you?

[@DachFalimo]

Fun interaction: Necromancy gets 2 creatures, ends enchanting the second one, and both creatures die if it leaves the battlefield (it never left the battlefield between iterations and being enchanted is not a requirement of staying alive). Trials and Cartouches would be awesome in a budget build. Thanks for reminding me of Polluted Bonds. I'm running Ankh of Mishra, too... but Horn of Greed to balance it all out. Love your stuff, man! Keep it up!

[@genbu2870]

That's a nice angle to look at. I for myself will upgrade my Tasigur build into a Yarok good stuff / Lands matters deck

[@freaksteak3740]

I love this it's going into my muldrotha deck

[@modernchow]

I happen to crack one in a booster and has me thinking about Sultai. Also happen to have Muldrotha. Thanks for all the potential ways to play~!

[@Aureliaven]

DJ: "We finally have a Panharmonicon commander" Inalla: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@danieledwards4310]

As someone who durdles along with an inalla wizard deck I can confirm that yes, inalla is a joke 😂

[@Aureliaven]

@@danieledwards4310 Inalla can be a competitive commander if built right. You do have to pay 1 for her effect and your ETBs are limited to Wizards, but the fact that it's an Eminence ability means you never have to play your commander to win. For competitive EDH that's like having a combo piece out Turn 0.

[@quinstockton5719]

I pulled a pack foil Yarok at the prerelease last night. I am so stoked to build him

[@Quetzacoatl09]

Yes, I want to see a Yarok Land deck tech with full deck list please! Great contents, you rock :)

[@Quetzacoatl09]

Wait, you already did it! XD

[@cablebeck4940]

I've been playtesting my deck for a few days and Springbloom Druid is such a heavy hitter in it. Sac 2 lands (usually basics I already tapped to cast it) and then go get 4 more. This deck has been so much fun to play so far but man does it get trigger and math heavy quick

[@cheshirecat7312]

I’ve already premade this deck and I gotta say, adding wild pair is sooo worth it. Doubling up dragonlord silumgar is also hilarious

[@moncala7787]

Risen reef putting the land into play is a may ability so the player can always choose to stop the roil combo at some point.

[@koreanbbq2376]

Which is what make that combo so damn good IMO

[@chillinon3263]

The possibilities are endless! This is a commander I'm going to make Elemental tribal with, do Labman things with, Lands with, Stax with, you name it! Love the versatile life

[@patrickhlavinka6364]

Hahaha. WOW evil mind i see..

[@mikeciul8599]

Risen Reef says "You may..." - so if you're worried about decking yourself, you can stop playing lands. Such a sweet card! I'm thinking about putting it in an Omnath, Locus of the Roil deck so I can also combine the triggers from Omnath, Locus of Rage.

[@TitusGuard]

Managed to pull a foiled Yarok, the desecrated and a misprinted 2/3 corpse knight from a prerelease box. Yarok is looking pretty sweet

[@Damatovg]

From what I understand, all Corpse Knights from the Prerelease boxes were misprints, but any other of the Knight within packs were correct. It's weird

[@helicopter160]

One thing that is important to note with faerie artisans: even though you do get both ETBs, you only keep one token b/c the ability itself exiles all other tokens created by it. Because you are copying the ability, the second ability resolving exiles the token created by the first.

[@jdotwilliam]

He explained this.

[@blaineheard9604]

I would love to see Rhys the redeemed love the video!

[@imnotubercarried7211]

5:13 that's actually really helpful thanks

[@junglingmitapfel2902]

Best combo in this decklist: Tainted Aether and Zendikar's Roil! :D

[@kateshungi8945]

So I play mtga but your ideas have me thinking of make a deck similar to this, thank you

[@dakotamcintire7419]

So far my favorite is yarok with polluted bonds. You'll notice his ability involves any permanant enteringnthe battlefield triggering an effect of a permanant you control, and draining 4 life from an opponent for every land they play is god damned beautiful XD

[@billsussman6554]

Sire of stagnation is similar

[@aaronbeck6121]

This makes me want to rebuild my Muldrotha clone deck. Was super fun cloning landfall cards and with Yarok and clone landfall (or steal) this could get nasty.

[@Damatovg]

So I've been messing around with construction of a Yarok deck, abusing ETB creature effects and Intruder Alarm alongside Cryptolith Rite. One thing I've been looking into a lot recently with it is Squirrels because I had noticed the interaction of Deep Forest Hermit. Another card is Squirrel's Nest from MH1, and I want to do a Squirrel heavy deck now. Just need to turn a land into a creature. Also, when you said you wanted to include a bunch of squirrels, you can imagine how high pitched I just screamed the word SQUIRRELS!!!

[@elijahmthompson2313]

*panharcomMander* forgot the extra "M" no biggy! Excited about the tech.

[@adambarkman1326]

I'll probably add this sweet beast of a card to my Sidisi deck with all the great legends like Muldrotha, Titania, Gitrog and...I don't remember what else is all in there off hand XD

[@edisonrosbarsky9084]

Hey dj I met you at mtg Seattle and I think your work is fantastic keep it up

[@JumboCommander]

Thanks man. I love meeting people and I'm so glad we got to say hi!

[@gazetronix]

*Watches video, clicks decklist link, sees a very different deck, scratches head*

[@marklafrancis253]

This bad boy is going straight into my horde of notions elemental tribal.

[@Yontanian]

Got a list? Im building one up. Got a bit of an elementals crush.

[@Alice_Haukea]

I plan to try this card out in my Muldrotha deck personally. I don't foresee it lasting in there too long, but I've been surprised before. After that, I'd be tempted to build around it as you are outlining here. The only shitty part is the color overlap between decks....

[@Zendrig]

My sultai lands matter deck has Mimeoplasm at the helm. It’s lots of fun.

[@eac-ox2ly]

Insane commander, Imma budget the shit outta this

[@airsoftdenmark3134]

Good video

[@DonovanPresents]

I tried my hand at building a deck around this commander and once I got to putting the lands on my list (my phone's new so I've been trying to adjust) and I accidently refreshed the page without saving the list 😡😭

[@FireDragon1224Gaming]

YarNabonAnomicin! YarNabonAnomicon! YarNabonAmonicon! Copying effects with three iterations of Panharomicon esque effects sounds so fun. As for Yarok Elementalands matter can probably deck you, but imagine what happens if (assuming everything goes right) you get to 0 cards in library, no Tatyova to draw a card (since reef looks then adds to hand), then Gaias blessing a few cards in, draw off it, discard to handsize, and use either Gaia's Blessing + Mending of Dominaria jank or Elixer of Immortality to shuffle your library back. Then you have all the landfall triggers, and you still have the deck to play with.

[@shyumby]

faerie will trigger 2 times then the 2 tokens will trigger each 2 times if they have etb or you have a trigger out of they enters :)

[@wafflezorz1]

No recipe with this deck tech? :( lol love the content DJ!

[@charlieburzynski603]

Not sure if he will talk about them later in the video, but what about all of the siege enchantments from fate reforged

[@vintageman91]

One pretty heavy mill cynergy with Yarok is with Yarok + conjourers closet + Altar of the brood on field, then cast Avenger of Zendikar and you Will be able to Mill at least the top 32 cards in one turn.

[@pinedamatthewmiguelinigob.7524]

Altar of the brood + Deadeye Navigator and Peregrine Drake is much better

[@chasecarlson1292]

What about a landfall deck. It says whenever a permanent enters the battlefield. Such as lands.

[@steven3814]

I think it's really cool that his flavor confirms he's from zendikar. I love zendikar

[@olafthemoose9413]

One question: Iona shield of emeria (I konw everybody looooves to play against this card and yes it is evil) says "as Iona enters the battlefield choose a color". Now is that a trigger that will be doubled from panharmonicon? Or can I copy it with the resonator?

[@koblfricker278]

Unfortunately there is no trigger, you just declare as it comes in. It's like how panharmonicon doesn't double the amount of +1/+1 counters on a creature that comes in.

[@olafthemoose9413]

@@koblfricker278 yeah, but there it's clear, like it comes into play with them, but since there is an as it enters the battlefield I thought it might work, but turned out it doesen't work like that.

[@stephenbowes2187]

Yarok is a really cool card, I agree, but I'm not using him as a Commander. Nah instead he's going in the 99 of another M20 Commander deck, Golos. Namely this is a blink-focused Maze's End deck, so doubling up the Golos triggers with Yarok to turbo out all the Guildgates just sounds fucking class

[@sonofchlar6144]

Stephen Bowes yarok doesn’t double golos because it’s not an ETB effect.

[@stephenbowes2187]

Yes it is? The 8 mana effect isn't but the land eff is

[@sonofchlar6144]

Stephen Bowes duh, that makes much more sense.

[@thecrowe10]

The new rhonos and craterhoof bathemoth in this is so funny with tarok out! Craterhoof gets double the counters till end up turn rhonas then doubles them a further 2 times! 😂😂😂😂

[@patrickhlavinka6364]

I tried risen reef in my yarok edh deck. It just never seemed to pay off enough. If you don't draw zendikar's roil it doesn't really do much.. Unless you run all elementals that is. I also tried that but it just was not as good as all the other things I could do. I mean you're only elementals are risen reef, yarok, roil, and avenger really. I think the idea of comboing off retreat to coralhelm with walking atlas works better. If you have prime speaker vannifar you can untap her and pod again as well as untap the walking atlas if your commander is in play. It adds more synergy. Add a way to bounce lands and it is wayyyy more powerful than birthing pod. Also progenitor mimic in this deck is sooooo good. Worth the 6 cmc if it sticks around even for 1 turn.

[@markmascadri1342]

Is this the deck for heartless summoning? This gives us another powerful ramp engine when we dont have lotus cobra. Turn 3 Yarok then some degenerate value Turn 4. Evoke mulldrifter for U draw 4 cards a 33% better ancestral recall. Wood elves G tutor out 2 basic lands untapped. If you can cast 2 or 3 creatures turn 4 and get 4 or 6 etbs that seems pretty great. Not to mention when Yarok dies it costs only 5 to recast him. Another suggestion is faerie artisans to get 2 of each opponents etbs. They try to ravenous chubecabra Yarok and you get to kill 2 things in response.

[@another-dude-named-michael]

Think about this: Sire of Stagnation Acidic Slime I know I'm evil

[@evan.elliott3175]

Also yarok affects kicker and multi kicker since it's a linked ability with an etb trigger. Imagine wolfbriar elemental with it ooof

[@oberondargos5465]

Been on the fence about putting Yarok in the 99 of Muldrotha or switching that around. Think I'm convinced now.

[@ilianceroni]

Oberon D'Argo or... build TWO sultai deks, one for Muldrota and one for Yarok😆

[@hiddenleaf414]

I was doing the same but I think Muldrotha in the 99 is scarier.

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

LOL Just make it interchangeable:P

[@friedpinnapple]

I feel that some Muldrotha will want Yarok in the deck but all Yarok will want muldrotha. Muldrotha lets you play cards out of the graveyard and things will always go to the graveyard. Yarok doubling triggers mean you have to have the cards that will have those abilities

[@royalcollectables]

@@ilianceroni that is what I'm going to do!!

[@zanis_summers8284]

No mention of Sire of Stagnation?

[@hawkeye137137]

Next time do Kethis, the Hidden Hand please DJ. Let us know what ungodly shenanigans we can do with this "Yawgmoth's for legendaries" guy.

[@bobthegamingpotato39]

Noticed you didn't mention sheoldred. Can I ask why?

[@Case2_0]

I'm considering and Eldrazi spawn/scion deck

[@knightfromlordran]

how about the primordials? especially sepulchral because if YOUR OPPONENTS HAVE ETB CREATURES OH MY GOD

[@itshoggle84]

That's a good card running it in my aminatou deck

[@ToxicAtom]

Devoid eldrazi tribal? It's in the three best colors for the devoid eldrazi, and most of the devoid eldrazi worth playing do something when they enter the battlefield (granted, for the most part that's just making Scions, but hey, that's a _lot_ of bonus scions, and by extension, bonus mana)

[@pedrovisnardi7193]

I have a Muldrotha lands matter too and i'm swaping for yarok asap hahahaha

[@Zendrig]

I like Sire of Stagnation.

[@demundoamundo5950]

Please do one on kykar!

[@CatTechSupport]

I am thinking a deck that consists of card draw, counterspells, and ETB enchantments like Polluted Bond/Tainted Aether. Probably the weirdest build idea you can think of but THINK OF THE FUN CONTROL DECK YOU COULD HAVE!

[@SpahSappinMahSentry1]

Does Yarok make cards like Mind's Dilation and Lurking Predators work? They activate on spells casting, but are permanents in play with triggered abilities themselves.

[@EM-pn5kq]

I don't believe they would be triggered an additional time

[@MrUshiikun]

Yarok is an enter the battlefield trigger and Mind's Dilation is a cast trigger, so Mind's Dilation won't get doubled. However, Strionic Resonator can copy a triggered ability, so you can copy Mind's Dilation with that.

[@ORRN91]

Lurking Predators and Mind's Dilation trigger on cast so before the permanent enters the battflefield. When Lurking Predators and Mind's Dilation "see" the card it`s still a spell on the stack and not a permanent at that point. Yarok only doubles effects that say "When XXX enters the battlefield ......" :)

[@staizer]

Yarok's ability is a static effect, not a triggered one. Mind's Dilation and Lurking Predators are not triggered by creatures entering the battlefield. The nice thing about Strionic is that Rings of Brighthearth can copy the Strionic Resonator's activated ability AND Strionic resonator can copy the Rings of Brighthearth's triggered ability. :P

[@JB-sc3fr]

Jumbo What's with as soon as they release a set, they have 0 down time and start spoilers for the next set. I feel it's happening too fast. How much cardboard can one person have before... Make a deck, play it once or twice then a new set comes out and have to make a deck out of those cards. Feeling a little financially drained 😅😓

[@Case2_0]

J B after this, there won't be a set until September

[@mgjmurphy]

Shouldn't Illusions of Grandeur's lose life trigger twice as well if it is still under your control when it leaves the battlefield?

[@KBgamer2010]

The Enter the Battlefield happens twice. Yarok Doesn't say anything about permanents LEAVING the battlefield

[@mgjmurphy]

@@KBgamer2010 Thanks!

[@ChillyJack]

I'll be putting Yarok into Golos 5 color Valakut personally.

[@misterdoughman3766]

Hey Jumbo! I'm trying to make a mill deck with yarok, is it pheasable to do with him as a commander? I have a modern deck tech but not a commander

[@diggerdog9205]

Super hard to mill 300 cards. With that said I have a Phenax deck and everyone hates it. 😈

[@diggerdog9205]

Best bet is to look weak for awhile then hit them when it matters most

[@Yontanian]

Any luck with this? Im trying it out and struggling. Was thinking maybe early game go self mill to help the card draw then late game set up combo mill wincons.

[@praetus2511]

4:38 Do you mean "As" not "At"? Ex. Sieges "As ___ Siege enters the battlefield, choose Khans or Dragons."

[@porttalbotwizards8020]

Rhonas making ginormous killer bee’s🐝 😏

[@RabbitxDx]

The link for the deck list doesn’t seem to work for me??

[@tr4pkeedyoungking677]

I changed it up a bit and it runs rampant at my lgs

[@wasf8569]

Do Kethis next, please!

[@AgentPedestrian]

Mmmm panharmonicon on a lifelink... i am thirsty for that elemental horror juice

[@pomonoli]

Risen Reef says you 'may' put the land on the battlefield, so don't worry, you won't die from drawing your deck out

[@BlasphemousVerses]

Got Yarok promo from open house.

[@francesco9747]

I actually did the sultai flicker deck 😂😂

[@1999Dman1]

This would be funny with explore gy strats

[@steelcrowjpc]

I’m making my yarok an enchantment deck and using lots of constellation triggers

[@kenjohnson3683]

Been smashing refresh on Kykar edhrec page for ages. Would love to hear your thoughts on that one. Also yarok is nutz and their only crime is not being muldrotha

[@pipsdontlie3031]

Fyi, Rosen Reef and Zendikar’s Roil can’t deck you as it puts the nonlands into hand, it doesn’t draw them. This allows you to cast your lab man and gush or just new jace to just win. Might be worth it to slot one or the other for this combo.

[@ToxicAtom]

A lot of people seem to be sleeping on the idea of using this thing to double the ETBs of Devoid Eldrazi. B/U/G are the three most represented colors among Eldrazi (not counting colorless), a vast majority of them having powerful ETB effects, not to mention the fact that Yarok himself is the remains of Ulamog's spawn.

[@Bruhecc]

I made this deck and its obscenely strong! So Im here to find upgrades…

[@Wildwolface77]

Interesting..... :)

[@EmeraldEmsiron]

imagine friggen (im pretty sure its called) avenger of zendicar.

[@enzomartellotta9709]

I was makin a elemental tribal muldrotha and this is gonna be so broken in it

[@jpancake84]

no crumbling vestige ? doesn't that net an extra mana ? I know its simple.

[@gregschabert8678]

Not even going to mention how animate dead actually becomes a 2 mana reanimate two things

[@gilbertomorales4402]

Yarok > Muldrotha for lands matter. Do it, DJ!

[@ethanlordofdeath694]

Wouldn't pan and yarok loop each other just a minor concern on my part

[@gublyb3579]

Both of them aren't actually triggers, so they don't proc each other.

[@shilohartisan]

So wait, how DO you stop Risen Reef // Zendikar's Roil from killing you?

[@pjkaiser9339]

You may put the land on the battlefield.

[@shilohartisan]

@@pjkaiser9339 ah. that explains it. thanks! next time i'll RTFC ;)

[@stevevrooman8250]

I'm not gonna do landfall because you suggested. I'm gonna do landfall because that's immediately where my head went when I saw this nasty little beastie. Also, in another similar video, a commenter pointed out that sire of stagnation triggers would also double.

[@nathanielh.6711]

Bounce lands will bounce twice and become even more weak. Or make pox deck with bounce lands, mana acceleration like burgeoning/azusa/exploration preventing your manabase from destruction. Also sunder.

[@Noah-lu4ro]

If you wanna do bounce lands at all in this deck it would be to maximize value out of landfall.