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Yarok, the Desecrated
Legendary Creature — Elemental Horror · {2}{B}{G}{U} · Black/Green/Blue commander
Deathtouch, lifelink
If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
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What Yarok, the Desecrated actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Replacement effect · trigger_doublerIf a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
- Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch
- Keyword · lifelinklifelink
What a Yarok, the Desecrated deck needs
Plays as ETB doubler. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- permanents with enter-the-battlefield triggers and ways to re-enter them (its doubler multiplies every ETB)
The Yarok, the Desecrated deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 27× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 12× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Yarok, the Desecrated
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Baleful Strix2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Cauldron Familiar1 mana
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Displacer Kitten4 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Gossip's Talent2 mana
- Thassa, Deep-Dwelling4 mana
- Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice3 mana
- Deadeye Navigator6 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Assassin's Trophy2 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Vicious Rivalry4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Dimir Signet2 mana
- Golgari Signet2 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Simic Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
Combos with Yarok, the Desecrated
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Yarok, the Desecrated is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Yarok, the Desecrated + Peregrine Drake + Venser, Shaper Savant2,944 decks
- Yarok, the Desecrated + Cloud Of Faeries + Eternal Witness + Ghostly Flicker1,428 decks
- Yarok, the Desecrated + Peregrine Drake + Shrieking Drake1,138 decks
- Yarok, the Desecrated + Palinchron862 decks
- Yarok, the Desecrated + Cloud Of Faeries + Shrieking Drake842 decks
- Yarok, the Desecrated + Peregrine Drake + Man-O'-War771 decks