Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

I've been intending to use this blog to chronicle some of my EDH/Commander escapades and decks. After much prodding my Mike (my 2HG partner from my previous post), I am going to post my updated Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord deck.

This deck started years ago as a Darigaaz, the Igniter deck. Then, it transformed into a Glissa, the Traitor deck followed by a Skullbriar, the Walking Grave deck as described here.

Jarad is a graveyard based deck. Shocking, I know. It differs from many other Commander decks I have seen in that it runs only two spells that cost six or more. This is to help make Dark Confidant better (and I was inspired by Sheldon Menery's work on this Nath of the Gilt-Leaf deck). This skews the deck towards being aggressive, which is fine by me. I run quite a few ways to fill my graveyard (Survival of the Fittest, Hermit Druid, Life from the Loam, Jarad's Orders, Greater Good, Lotleth Troll, Splinterfright, Corpse Connoisseur, Phyrexian Plaguelord, Gobbling Ooze, Grim Backwoods) and other cards to take advantage of this fact (Life from the Loam, Splinterfright, Reanimate, Coffin Queen, Necromancy, Kessig Cagebreakers, Genesis, Grim Harvest, Volrath's Stronghold, Phyrexian Reclamation, Living End). There is also a +1/+1 counter theme, a hold over from Skullbriar, but still potent (Oran-Rief, the Vastwood, Corpsejack Menace, Dreg Mangler, Deadbridge Golaith, Champion of Lambholt, Increasing Savagery, Gobbling Ooze, Scavenging Ooze).

The deck is a machine in that everything works well together, and right now, I am very happy with how the deck plays. It is a ton of fun and is never really lacking for resources.

General

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Black

Blood Artist

Bloodghast

Bloodgift Demon

Bone Shredder

Coffin Queen

Corpse Connoisseur

Damnation

Dark Confidant

Demonic Tutor

Disciple of Griselbrand

Falkenrath Noble

Grave Pact

Grim Harvest

Harvester of Souls

Living Death

Necromancy

Phyrexian Plaguelord

Phyrexian Reclamation

Reanimate

Shriekmaw

Skeletal Scrying

Skirsdag High Priest

Green

Awakening Zone

Champion of Lambholt

Deadbridge Goliath

Eternal Witness

Garruk Wildspeaker

Genesis

Gobbling Ooze

Greater Good

Harmonize

Hermit Druid

Increasing Savagery

Indrik Stomphowler

Kessig Cagebreakers

Life from the Loam

Lotus Cobra

Mold Shambler

Oracle of Mul Daya

Scavening Ooze

Splinterfright

Survival of the Fittest

Sylvan Library

Yavimaya Elder

Yavimaya Granger

Multicolor

Corpsejack Menace

Creakwood Liege

Dreg Mangler

Gleancrawler

Grim Feast

Jarad's Orders

Lotleth Troll

Necrogenesis

Putrefy

Savra, Queen of the Golgari

Artifact

Lightning Greaves

Nihil Spellbomb

Nim Deathmantle

Skullclamp

Sol Ring

Solemn Simulacrum

Sword of Light and Shadow

Land

Barren Moor

Bojuka Bog

Command Tower

Evolving Wilds

Golgari Guildgate

Golgari Rot Farm

Grim Backwoods

Oran-Rief, the Vastwood 

Pine Barrens

Polluted Mire

Rogue's Passage

Slippery Karst

Tainted Wood

Temple of the False God

Terramorphic Expanse

Tranquil Thicket

Treetop Village

Verdant Catacombs

Volrath's Stronghold

Wasteland

Winding Canyons

Forest (9)

Swamp (7)