Yurlok of Scorch Thrash
Color Identity
Details
Mana Value
4
Popularity
#1,455
of 3,466 commanders · via EDHREC
Card Text
Legendary Creature — Lizard Shaman
Vigilance
A player losing unspent mana causes that player to lose that much life.
{1}, {T}: Each player adds {B}{R}{G}.
4/4
Playstyle
Midrange · Flexible pace · Group influence · Incremental wins
- Aggression
- 2 of 5
- Speed
- 2 of 5
- Interaction
- 4 of 5
- Combat
- 2 of 5
- Engine
- 3 of 5
- Complexity
- 4 of 5
Card Price
Strategy Guides
Group Hug Strategy Guide
Group Hug decks are for players who want table politics to matter as much as board position. This strategy wants to give everyone extra cards, lands, or mana, using group hug commanders and symmetrical resource effects, to win through political leverage, hidden payoffs, or a carefully timed finish. Unlike Lifegain, it does not make your own life total the engine; it gives resources away and tries to profit from who uses them. The best political decks EDH players remember are frank about the risk: your gifts can help the wrong player first.
Ramp Strategy Guide
Ramp decks are for players who want to spend the early game accelerating so later turns happen ahead of schedule. This strategy wants to build more mana than the table, using mana ramp EDH staples, extra land drops, dorks, and rocks, to win through earlier threats, large spells, or a resource lead opponents must answer. Ramp is different from Landfall because acceleration is the point, and different from Big Mana because it is the engine rather than the payoff. The best ramp commanders reward extra mana sources while still giving you something meaningful to cast.
Big Mana Strategy Guide
Big Mana decks are for players who want the game to build toward casting one spell that changes every resource count at once. This strategy wants to accelerate beyond normal mana development, using land ramp, mana rocks, doublers, and big mana commanders, to win through X spells, huge spells EDH tables have to answer, or haymakers like Torment of Hailfire and Expropriate. In the Ramp, Landfall, and Big Mana overlap, Ramp is acceleration, Landfall turns land drops into triggers, and Big Mana is the payoff plan for spending all that mana. Unlike Storm, it usually casts fewer spells in a turn and asks each one to matter on resolution.
Combo Strategy Guide
Combo decks are for players who enjoy finding a narrow line, protecting it, and ending the game with specific cards working together. This strategy wants to assemble combo commanders, tutors, draw, and compact two-card or three-card packages, using infinite combos or deterministic loops, to win in one decisive moment. Unlike Spellslinger it is not paid for every spell cast, unlike Storm it does not need a long chain turn, and unlike Big Mana it does not rely on casting one enormous payoff. The best combo decks EDH players build balance speed with enough interaction to survive the table's disruption.
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