Jarad was originally added as another sac outlet in my old Savra deck, but it became apparent that he outshone his sister in terms of raw power. While Savra could play a slow, grinding control game, she was not a sac outlet herself. Jarad is far more aggressive, getting big enough to deal serious damage and bleeding opponents dry with a killer sac ability. Needless to say, I scrapped the Savra shell and made numerous changes, but the result was well worth it.
The deck is creature-heavy because that works well with Jarad's first two abilities. Most of the cards fall into at least one of the following categories: ramp, fatties, bleeders, recursion, removal, card advantage. Whenever possible, I selected cards that filled more than one of these functions, which means there was no room for vanilla fatties like Boneyard Wurm and Lord of Extinction or even french vanillas like Mortivore and Revenant. While those creatures are certainly big and can be devastating with Jarad's fling ability, they do little else for the deck and are less interesting to me.
Feel free to leave suggestions on what to add or what to cut (I think I may want to bump the land count up a little). Just try to keep the suggestions on theme of ramping into useful fatties while bleeding my opponents' life totals.
I traded for another Massacre Wurm for this deck. He really fits the theme, killing off small creatures and bleeding opponents while providing a nice body to fling in a pinch. Braids was a holdover from the Savra deck that didn't really belong.
I've been pleased with the deck so far but feel like it needs to go just a little faster. Even ramping to more land than both my opponents combined, I felt like I could have used more mana. Card draw would be nice, too.
I had been considering Seedguide Ash but prefer my ramp to be at the lower end of the mana curve or to do something more (like Sylvan Primordial). The others are non-creatures, which makes them less useful to Jarad. That doesn't mean I won't consider, it just means they'll really have to earn their spot. I do have a few other creatures that fetch land - maybe I'll dig them out and find one or two more to add.
And I hadn't really looked at Cauldron of Souls. Mikaeus serves a similar purpose and has a 5/5 body to boot.
Hey, I'd like to welcome you to Jarad. I've been playing a combo Jarad for a couple years, and while our wincons are different, our engines are pretty similar. You're missing some important pieces, like Greater Good, Entomb, etc. Here's my list.
Champion of Stray Souls was never as fun as I hoped, and Phyrexian Altar is needed elsewhere, so out they go. The Bloodghast/Perilous Forays combo was cute but rarely happened.
Two more bleeders in. I'm not sure why Gary took so long to find a home here, but he's in. And Cutthroat is nice redundancy to Blood Artist and Falkenrath Noble.
Caterpillar is simply a cheaper Zealot.
This Zombie Elf demands a necro. I've been playing and tweaking the deck but haven't been very good at updating the list for the past 2+ years. I just updated the original list with the cumulative changes, and wow are there a lot of changes.
1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
CREATURES
1 Artisan of Kozilek
1 Blood Artist
1 Bone Shredder
1 Burnished Hart
1 Caustic Caterpillar
1 Coffin Queen
1 Creakwood Liege
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Dire Fleet Ravager
1 Disciple of Bolas
1 Doomgape
1 Duplicant
1 Erebos, God of the Dead
1 Eternal Witness
1 Falkenrath Noble
1 Farhaven Elf
1 Fleshbag Marauder
1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
1 Gleancrawler
1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1 Hydra Omnivore
1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
1 Krosan Tusker
1 Massacre Wurm
1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
1 Netherborn Phalanx
1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
1 Primeval Protector
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Rune-Scarred Demon
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
1 Shriekmaw
1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Sylvan Ranger
1 Sylvok Replica
1 Terastodon
1 Twisted Abomination
1 Ulvenwald Hydra
1 Wood Elves
1 Woodfall Primus
1 Xathrid Demon
1 Yavimaya Elder
1 Yavimaya Granger
1 Zulaport Cutthroat
1 Birthing Pod
1 Elixir of Immortality
1 Mimic Vat
1 Mirage Mirror
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Sword of the Animist
ENCHANTMENTS
1 Journey to Eternity
1 Oversold Cemetery
1 Phyrexian Reclamation
1 Song of the Dryads
INSTANTS & SORCERIES
1 Corpse Dance
1 Deadly Tempest
1 Diabolic Intent
1 Living Death
1 Shamanic Revelation
1 Tempt with Discovery
LANDS
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Command Tower
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Golgari Rot Farm
1 Grim Backwoods
1 High Market
1 Homeward Path
1 Mortuary Mire
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Phyrexian Tower
1 Tainted Wood
1 Temple of Malady
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Volrath's Stronghold
1 Woodland Cemetery
11 Forest
8 Swamp
The deck is creature-heavy because that works well with Jarad's first two abilities. Most of the cards fall into at least one of the following categories: ramp, fatties, bleeders, recursion, removal, card advantage. Whenever possible, I selected cards that filled more than one of these functions, which means there was no room for vanilla fatties like Boneyard Wurm and Lord of Extinction or even french vanillas like Mortivore and Revenant. While those creatures are certainly big and can be devastating with Jarad's fling ability, they do little else for the deck and are less interesting to me.
Feel free to leave suggestions on what to add or what to cut (I think I may want to bump the land count up a little). Just try to keep the suggestions on theme of ramping into useful fatties while bleeding my opponents' life totals.
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I traded for another Massacre Wurm for this deck. He really fits the theme, killing off small creatures and bleeding opponents while providing a nice body to fling in a pinch. Braids was a holdover from the Savra deck that didn't really belong.
I've been pleased with the deck so far but feel like it needs to go just a little faster. Even ramping to more land than both my opponents combined, I felt like I could have used more mana. Card draw would be nice, too.
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(Seedguide Ash, Yavimaya Elder, Cultivate, Kodama's Reach, Explosive Vegetation, Skyshroud Claim, ...)
Have you considered Cauldron of Souls?
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And I hadn't really looked at Cauldron of Souls. Mikaeus serves a similar purpose and has a 5/5 body to boot.
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//Land (31)
1x Ancient Tomb
1x Bayou
1x Bloodstained Mire
1x Bojuka Bog
1x Cabal Coffers
1x City of Brass
1x Command Tower
1x Dryad Arbor
4x Forest
1x Llanowar Wastes
1x Mana Confluence
1x Marsh Flats
1x Misty Rainforest
1x Overgrown Tomb
1x Phyrexian Tower
1x Polluted Delta
1x Reliquary Tower
1x Strip Mine
3x Swamp
1x Temple of Malady
1x Twilight Mire
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1x Verdant Catacombs
1x Windswept Heath
1x Wooded Foothills
1x Woodland Cemetery
//Artifact (8)
1x Altar of Dementia
1x Gilded Lotus
1x Golgari Signet
1x Mana Crypt
1x Phyrexian Altar
1x Scroll Rack
1x Sensei's Divining Top
1x Sol Ring
1x Baleful Force
1x Birds of Paradise
1x Crypt Ghast
1x Deathrite Shaman
1x Eternal Witness
1x Voyaging Satyr
1x Faerie Macabre
1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
1x Graveborn Muse
1x Hermit Druid
1x Lord of Extinction
1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
1x Necrotic Ooze
1x Oracle of Mul Daya
1x Phyrexian Delver
1x Phyrexian Devourer
1x Rune-Scarred Demon
1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
1x Triskelion
1x Woodfall Primus
//Instant (12)
1x Beast Within
1x Crop Rotation
1x Entomb
1x Krosan Grip
1x Wake the Dead
1x Murderous Cut
1x Putrefy
1x Slaughter Pact
1x Snuff Out
1x Sudden Death
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Worldly Tutor
1x Liliana Vess
//Sorcery (16)
1x Buried Alive
1x Damnation
1x Decree of Pain
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Dread Return
1x Exhume
1x Green Sun's Zenith
1x Jarad's Orders
1x Life // Death
1x Living Death
1x Nature's Lore
1x Reanimate
1x Skyshroud Claim
1x Tempt with Discovery
1x Tooth and Nail
1x Toxic Deluge
1x Victimize
//Enchantment (10)
1x Animate Dead
1x Dance of the Dead
1x Greater Good
1x Necromancy
1x Necropotence
1x Pattern of Rebirth
1x Phyrexian Arena
1x Song of the Dryads
1x Survival of the Fittest
1x Sylvan Library
Feel free to check out the primer in my signature.
Jarad Graveyard Combo[Primer]!
Sidisi ANT!
Playing Commander to Win - A guide on Competitive, 4-player EDH
LandDestruction.com - An EDH blog
1 Caustic Caterpillar
1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1 Necrogenesis
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Sylvan Ranger
1 Zulaport Cutthroat
1 Acidic Slime
1 Bloodghast
1 Champion of Stray Souls
1 Perilous Forays
1 Phyrexian Altar
1 Viridian Zealot
Champion of Stray Souls was never as fun as I hoped, and Phyrexian Altar is needed elsewhere, so out they go. The Bloodghast/Perilous Forays combo was cute but rarely happened.
Two more bleeders in. I'm not sure why Gary took so long to find a home here, but he's in. And Cutthroat is nice redundancy to Blood Artist and Falkenrath Noble.
Caterpillar is simply a cheaper Zealot.
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1 Vampiric Rites
Deathmantle looks good in theory, but I often don't have 4. 1B is easier and nets me more cards in the long run.
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1 Bone Shredder
1 Burnished Hart
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Dire Fleet Ravager
1 Erebos, God of the Dead
1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
1 Netherborn Phalanx
1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
1 Primeval Protector
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Sylvok Replica
1 Ulvenwald Hydra
1 Yavimaya Elder
1 Mirage Mirror
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Sword of the Animist
1 Journey to Eternity
1 Phyrexian Reclamation
1 Song of the Dryads
1 Deadly Tempest
1 Shamanic Revelation
1 Tempt with Discovery
1 Command Tower
1 Golgari Rot Farm
1 Homeward Path
1 Mortuary Mire
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Temple of Malady
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Woodland Cemetery
1 Butcher of Malakir
1 Cemetery Reaper
1 Deadwood Treefolk
1 Fleshwrither
1 Grave Titan
1 Harvester of Souls
1 Meren of Clan Nel-Toth
1 Nether Traitor
1 Pilgrim's Eye
1 Puppeteer Clique
1 Reassembling Skeleton
1 Sepulchral Primordial
1 Shambling Shell
1 Treefolk Harbinger
1 Vengeful Pharaoh
1 Viridian Emissary
1 Expedition Map
1 Skullclamp
1 Grave Pact
1 Necrogenesis
1 Vampiric Rites
1 Victimize
1 Miren, the Moaning Well
3 Forest
5 Swamp
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