Do you want to control the battlefield, but are bored of using counters? Then this naya deck is what you are looking for. Featuring Hazezon, Shaper of Sand as your commander, you’ll be constantly destroying your opponents lands, while playing yours from the graveyard and populating your battlefield with tokens until they overwhelm the entire board.

Disclaimer: before you play this deck on your commander pod, first ask them how they feel about Mass Land Destruction, or else be on the look for a new pod.

Hazezon’s Premise

As a Naya deck, you’ll have plenty of ways to ramp up your mana base with your green spells, protect your creatures with some white spells and be pretty aggressive using your red spells. 

But as counterintuitive as it can be, this deck won’t be using your typical ramp spells, because you’ll be constantly destroying your own lands and replaying them from the yard. This is because of the second ability of Hazezon, Shaper of Sand, where you may play Desert lands from your graveyard. And then this will trigger his third ability populating your board with Sand Warrior.

This will give you total control of the field, by not letting your opponents cast any spell, because they won’t have enough mana to do it, and in the end, you’ll be stomping them with your Sand Army.

Core Gameplay

This deck features the whooping amount of 48 lands, this is because Hazezon is a lands matters commander, so, you’ll also be using many landfall triggers to benefit the most of this humongous amount of lands. Most of them are deserts, and fetch lands. So you’ll be playing at least two lands per turn, putting on the field four 1/1 Sand Warrior Token.

Most of your creatures will be giving you either the option to play lands from the graveyard, or play more than one land per turn, which in turn will give you more and more tokens on the field.

Decklist

This budget version of the deck will cost you around $225 as of 12/18/2025, you could upgrade it, particularly on the mana base, but this will skyrocket the price pretty much.

We are looking at a Bracket 4 deck, using one game changer and six mass land destruction spells, which give you a power level capable of overpowering most decks you play against.

Key Cards

Game Changers

Your only Game Changer on this deck is Crop Rotation, a land tutor spell that will net you any land you need for only one green at instant speed, this is one, if not the most powerful ramp spell you’ll have on the deck.

Do you like Deserts?

While the desert type lands have received some love in the recent years, there’s not enough of them to make a full-on desert mana base, and there’s where Dune Chanter comes to the rescue, is a 2/3 for 3 mana with reach who will turn every land that you control and own that aren’t on the battlefield into deserts, he also works as a mana dork, but turning every land on the deck into a desert is a game changing ability for Hazezon.

Mass Land Destruction

Let’s be real, because of these six spells you’ll be the target of the whole pod, but they won’t be able to do anything because they won’t have the mana to do it.

Armageddon and Fall of the Thran are the most vanilla MLD spells of the deck, meanwhile Catastrophe could be used as a wrath in the case that another player developed his battlefield.

Now, the most powerful spells in this category are Decree of Annihilation, Jokulhaups and Obliterate. Of these three, Decree of Annihilation is your emergency button if you cast it by his whole CMC, but more often than not you’ll be cycling it to only destroy all lands.

Game Plan

This deck is pretty straightforward, ramp your manabase to get your commander in play, destroy all lands, generate a humongous amount of tokens, overwhelm your opponents, and profit.

Let’s talk about some of the cards on this deck

Land Recursion

These six cards will enable you to play lands from the graveyard, remember that you’ll be destroying all lands from the battlefield so, having not one, but six options to play lands from your graveyard would give you extra resources to rebuild your table.

Desert Warfare is particularly strong in this category, because it will not only bring back any desert you put in the graveyard either by sacrificing them or putting them there from your hand or library, but also will create more of sand soldiers with haste if you control the measle amount of five deserts (Remember, Dune Chanter will make any and all land you have either on the field or not, into a desert)

Aftermath Analyst and Splendid Reclamation would return every single land on your graveyard to the battlefield, triggering all your landfall effects, and, if you have Dune Chanter plus Hazezon on the Battlefield, you’ll be effectively creating your land count times two Sand Soldiers.

Summon: Titan will make the same as the two mentioned above, but it will require some set up for him to be as optimal as possible.

MultiLands per Turn.

We want to maximise the number of lands we can play each turn, remember Lands = Creatures, so, more lands per turn, more tokens per turn. And these cards will let you play multiple lands per turn.

Dryad of the Ilysian Grove will also give your lands the possibility to give any color of mana you need, which in fact, is a powerful effect on this deck, because most of your lands are deserts or give non-colored mana.

Case of the Locked Hothouse will also let you, when solved, to look at the top card of your library and play it, Oracle of Mul Daya has a similar effect, but only lets you play land cards from the top.

Druid Class is a nice extra to have on this deck because it will net you with a ton of life points because of the heavy land recursion you’ll have.

Icetill Explorer works wonders as a all-in-one source of recursion, multiple lands per turn and landfall trigger.

Lastly, Summer Bloom is your burst multiple lands per turn, giving you three extra lands in a single turn.

Landfall Draw Cards

In commander, as in any other format of Magic: The Gathering, drawing cards is the most powerful and impactful action you could do, so let’s try to exploit your multiple lands per turn by using some simple landfall effects that lets you draw some cards.

Rydia, Summoner of Mist will work wonders as a cycling effect every time you put a land on the battlefield, while Tannuk, Memorial Ensign can work as a pseudo wincon by pinging your opponents every time a land enters the battlefield under your control.

Finally, Seer's Sundial is a non-orthodox draw engine, but you’ll be making profit from it because of the amount of lands this deck has.

Land Protection

Tomik, Distinguished Advokist has a pretty interesting effect by giving your lands on the battlefield hexproof, and also preventing your opponents from playing lands from the graveyard.

Mana Rocks

A deck that doesn’t have Arcane Signet? Chromatic Lantern as an option? Let’s be clear, this deck is 48% lands, Arcane Signet is not a necessity for this deck. 

Now, let’s address the elephant in the room, Chromatic Lantern. An infamous mana rock that has been victim of powercreep, but on this deck, as i mentioned when i addressed Dryad of the Ilysian Grove, most of your lands will produce non-colored mana, or will help you fetch another land, is this fact that makes Chromatic Lantern a good option for this deck, making all your lands produce mana of any color, hence providing a tactical advantage in this case.

Game Closers

Finally, the most important card to have as a Game Closer for when your army is setted up is 

On wings of Gold will make your army of Sand Soldiers more deadly, by giving them +1/+1 and flying, effectively making them pretty hard to block, but not only that, but every single time one of your lands sitting in the graveyard leave it, it will create a 1/1 white token, netting you another token for your army.

But, if you want something more flavorful for your army of tokens then playing Titania, Protector of Argoth will give you an impactful punch on the battlefield, because every time a land you control is destroyed, she’ll be putting a 5/3 Elemental on the field, pairing them with On Wings of Gold and you’ll have a group or 6/4 elementals with flying ready to end the game almost on demand, while your opponents won’t have any mana to respond.

Mana Base

Finally, let’s discuss the mana base for this deck. Remember you’ll have 48 lands, so let’s see some of them

Fetch Lands

This Deck uses an astounding amount of 14 fetch lands, most of them search for basic lands, like Cabaretti Coutyard, Escape Tunnel, Naya Panorama, Terramorphic Expanse, and this deck uses 7 basic lands, so you’ll definitely find them. Also, every one of them are effectively replayable every turn because you certainly will have some kind of recursion.

For this version of the deck you’ll be using the slow fetch lands Grasslands and Mountain Valley, to keep up with the budget, but if you want to change them for their better counterpart and also add the boros one, feel free to do it because it is a great improvement. But we will talk about upgrades later on.

Deserts

This deck comes with 22 deserts, basically any desert that could produce non-colored mana, and any of the colors of Hazezon identity is in this deck.

There are some worth mentioning like Abraded Bluffs, and the rest of the OTJ dual deserts, which enter tapped but will ping an opponent.

Desert of the Indomitable, and the rest of the color identity cycling deserts from HOU are a good cantrip to draw if you need it, remember that, after all, we will be playing our lands from the graveyard.

Dunes of the Dead functionally works as a budget-like Field of the Dead, because sacrificing it and replaying it every turn will give you a zombie every time you destroy it.

Mirage Mesa will be one of your most versatile deserts, because it will always produce the color you need the moment you play it.

Ramunap Ruins, which you’ll be using as a source of 2 damage to each opponent almost every turn.

Finally, Cactus Preserve will give you any color of mana any land you control could produce.

Remember, this deck runs a copy of Spelunking, so, your lands will come untapped more often than not thanks to it.

Cycling into play

Lastly, this deck runs along the cycling deserts mentioned above, some other cycling lands, because we want to exploit the graveyard as much as possible. Like Sheltered Thicket, and the others cycling fetchable lands, which you always want to cycle and then play from the graveyard. And Sheltering Landscape, which would work as a basic fetch land, or, if the game has advanced to the later stages, gives you a card.

Reap what you sow

Taking Hazezon’s title in mind, we will be shaping the sands of the deserts into anything we could exploit for our victory. Using cards like Elvish Reclaimer, which is a great asset for Hazezon, because he will not only be a 3/4 for 1 mana more often than not, but he also will be tutoring any land you need at the cost of a land.

Sprouting Goblin, if kicked, will put a basic land in your hand from your library, and by the measly cost of one red mana and sacrificing a land you’ll be drawing. Which in turn gives you any other benefit you could get by destroying your own lands.

Sylvan Safekeeper is the bodyguard of Hazezon, giving him Shroud (keep in mind, you won’t be able to interact with your own creatures if they have shroud) at the cost of a land.

Nahiri's Lithoforming is maybe your most powerful drawing spell on this deck, because you can sacrifice every land you own minus two, to draw an absurd amount of cards, and, if you have any of the recursion effects in place, you effectively draw all that cards for only two red mana, this is because Nahiri’s Lithoforming allows you to play X additional lands this turn, and having something like your commander on the Battlefield in that moment will allow you to replay every single land you sacrifice this way.

Lastly, Zuran Orb will function as an Altar of sorts, any deck needs an Altar to sacrifice something for a benefit, in this case, 2 life point per land sacrificed, but remember, you want your lands in the graveyard for recursion-sake and this will enable you to do it on demand.

Upgrades

As we have been discussing since the beginning, this deck is a budget one, which means we could give it some upgrades.

Creatures

First off, the greater upgrade you could have in terms of creatures, would be Azusa, Lost but Seeking. Her ability to play not one, but two additional lands each turn is pretty powerful for Hazezon and his deserts.

Lands

In terms of lands, here is where we could improve the deck the most, changing all of the slow fetch lands for the more efficient true fetch lands, like Arid Mesa, Windswept Heath and Wooded Foothills. Keep in mind that they come at a premium cost, but if you can afford them, use them.

Also, what is a fetch land for if not for fetching some interesting lands like the Murders at Karlov Manor surveil lands like Commercial District or the evergreen Shocklands, like Temple Garden.

Enchantments

Oh boy, here we could be looking at some incredible upgrades for the deck that will hit your pocket if you choose to use them

You want to populate the battlefield with tokens so quickly that your opponents wouldn’t know what hit them? Then put Anointed Procession and Parallel Lives in the deck, they’re both self-explanatory, doubling the amount of tokens you’ll be putting in the battlefield.

Burgeoning is an old school enchantment which will allow you to play lands from your hand every time an opponent plays a land

Finally, Exploration another old school enchantment, with a pretty simple effect that we already have on the deck, but in commander the more cards with the same effect the better, and this one comes in an enchantment form, giving it a more difficult type to be dealt with by your opponents.

These are the most important upgrades in terms of creatures, lands and enchantments for the deck.Just keep in mind the cost of the deck will skyrocket if you choose to get them. But they’re worth it.

And this is my take on breaking the major taboo of Magic in the form of mass land destruction, use it if you feel specially like the archenemy of your pod or LGS. But keep in mind that maybe, just maybe, very few people would like you after using this deck.