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Yurlok of Scorch Thrash
Legendary Creature — Lizard Shaman · {1}{B}{R}{G} · Black/Green/Red commander
Vigilance
A player losing unspent mana causes that player to lose that much life.
{1}, {T}: Each player adds {B}{R}{G}.
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What Yurlok of Scorch Thrash actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability{1}, {T}: Each player adds {B}{R}{G}.
- Keyword · vigilancevigilance
- AbilityA player losing unspent mana causes that player to lose that much life.
What a Yurlok of Scorch Thrash deck needs
Plays as mana burn. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- mana sinks, and ways to make opponents waste mana (lost unspent mana is lost life)
- haste and untap for the commander
The Yurlok of Scorch Thrash deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- 8× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 14× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
Best cards for Yurlok of Scorch Thrash
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.
Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- Rising of the Day3 mana
- Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
- Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler3 mana
- The Fire Crystal4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Urabrask the Hidden5 mana
- Fervor3 mana
Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- Aggravated Assault3 mana
- Bear Umbra4 mana
- Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
- Thornbite Staff2 mana
- Umbral Mantle3 mana
- Genji Glove5 mana
- Copperhorn Scout1 mana
- Éomer, Marshal of Rohan4 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Assassin's Trophy2 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Beast Within3 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
- Grim Tutor3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Golgari Signet2 mana
- Gruul Signet2 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Enduring Vitality3 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose3 mana
- Artist's Talent2 mana
Combos with Yurlok of Scorch Thrash
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Yurlok of Scorch Thrash is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Yurlok of Scorch Thrash + Leyline Of Abundance + Umbral Mantle3,889 decks
- Yurlok of Scorch Thrash + Staff Of Domination + Nyxbloom Ancient3,740 decks
- Yurlok of Scorch Thrash + Staff Of Domination + Mana Reflection3,675 decks
- Yurlok of Scorch Thrash + Umbral Mantle + Nyxbloom Ancient3,615 decks
- Yurlok of Scorch Thrash + Umbral Mantle + Mana Reflection3,566 decks
- Yurlok of Scorch Thrash + Leyline Of Abundance + Sword Of The Paruns3,270 decks