Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd Commander Deck
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd fuels a landfall and sacrifice engine by repeatedly playing lands from the graveyard, using fetchlands, land sacrifice effects like Zuran Orb, and self-mill to cycle lands in and out of the graveyard at a rapid pace. Each sacrificed permanent during your turn grows another creature by an amount equal to Szarel's power, so the deck stacks counters and counters-matter effects to create increasingly threatening threats while landfall triggers generate tokens, deal damage, and accelerate the board state further. The primary combo win involves The Gitrog Monster and Dakmor Salvage generating effectively infinite dredge and discard triggers, which can translate into overwhelming advantage or a lethal board state through the deck's many landfall payoffs.
Decklist
- Aftermath Analyst
- Ancient Greenwarden
- Arcane Signet
- Augur of Autumn
- Avenger of Zendikar
- Azusa's Many Journeys
- Baloth Prime
- Beast Within
- Binding the Old Gods
- Blackblade Reforged
- Blasphemous Act
- Bloodstained Mire
- Bojuka Bog
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare
- Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
- Cabaretti Courtyard
- Canyon Slough
- Centaur Vinecrasher
- Cinder Glade
- Command Tower
- Cultivate
- Dakmor Salvage
- Demonic Tutor
- Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
- Entish Restoration
- Escape to the Wilds
- Escape Tunnel
- Eternal Witness
- Eumidian Hatchery
- Eumidian Wastewaker
- Evendo Brushrazer
- Evolving Wilds
- Exploration Broodship
- Fabled Passage
- Famished Worldsire
- Farseek
- Festering Thicket
- 8× Forest
- Formless Genesis
- Gau, Feral Youth
- Gaze of Granite
- Germination Practicum
- God-Eternal Bontu
- Groundskeeper
- Hammer of Purphoros
- Harrow
- Hearthhull, the Worldseed
- Hew the Entwood
- Horizon Explorer
- Icetill Explorer
- Infernal Grasp
- Jund Panorama
- Juri, Master of the Revue
- Karplusan Forest
- Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
- Llanowar Wastes
- Loading Zone
- Loamcrafter Faun
- Lotus Cobra
- Maestros Theater
- Mayhem Devil
- Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
- Mightform Harmonizer
- Moraug, Fury of Akoum
- Mossborn Hydra
- 3× Mountain
- Mountain Valley
- Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
- Myriad Landscape
- Nahiri's Lithoforming
- Nature's Lore
- Night's Whisper
- Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
- Omnath, Locus of Rage
- Oracle of Mul Daya
- Pest Infestation
- Planar Engineering
- Planetary Annihilation
- Princess Sarah
- Putrefy
- Rakdos Charm
- Rampaging Baloths
- Retreat to Hagra
- Ride the Shoopuf
- Riveteers Overlook
- Rocky Tar Pit
- Roiling Regrowth
- Satyr Wayfinder
- Scapeshift
- Scouring Swarm
- Seedborn Muse
- Sheltered Thicket
- Skyshroud Claim
- Smoldering Marsh
- Sol Ring
- Soul of Windgrace
- Splendid Reclamation
- Springbloom Druid
- Springheart Nantuko
- Sprouting Goblin
- Stensian Sanguinist
- Sulfurous Springs
- 5× Swamp
- Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
- Tear Asunder
- Terramorphic Expanse
- The Gitrog Monster
- The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
- Tireless Tracker
- Titania, Protector of Argoth
- Twilight Mire
- Twisted Landscape
- Uurg, Spawn of Turg
- Vernal Fen
- Viridescent Bog
- Wastes
- Windgrace's Judgment
- World Breaker
- World Shaper
- Worldsoul's Rage
- Zuran Orb