connive - PROD

Format: Commander

Commander: Kang, Temporal Tyrant

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir midrange strategy centered on Kang, Temporal Tyrant, tribal Villain synergies, and triggers that activate whenever you draw your second card each turn. The early game focuses on deploying low-cost artifacts and Villain creatures to establish mana and early board presence. Kang typically enters the battlefield on turn 3 or 4, attacking immediately on the following turn to connive, sculpt your hand, grow in power, and drain opposing life totals. In the mid-game, payoffs like Madame Masque, Leader, Super-Genius, and M.O.D.O.K., Evil Intellect translate drawing extra cards into creature tokens, card advantage, and opposing creature sacrifices. The deck closes games through compounded combat damage from evasive and high-power threats alongside steady drain triggers. An extensive suite of instant-speed spot removal and countermagic disrupts fast opposing lines while keeping the board clear for repeated attacks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 A.I.M. Labs
  • 1 A.I.M. Scientists
  • 1 Arc Reactor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord
  • 1 Barrels of Blasting Jelly
  • 1 Champion's Helm
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Construct a Cosmic Cube
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crossbones, Malicious Mercenary
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Tempest
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Disfigure
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Doc Ock, Sinister Scientist
  • 1 Doom Reigns Supreme
  • 1 Elektra, Daughter of the Hand
  • 1 Escape Detection
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gallia, Tragic Host
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Kang, Temporal Tyrant
  • 1 Kid Loki
  • 1 Lake-town Mariners // Gone Fishing
  • 1 Last Gasp
  • 1 Leader, Super-Genius
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 M.O.D.O.K., Evil Intellect
  • 1 Madame Masque
  • 1 Mechanical Mobster
  • 1 Merciless Enforcers
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mob Lookout
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ninja of the Hand
  • 1 Overseer of the Damned
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Proft, Sinister Mastermind
  • 1 Red Room Recruit
  • 1 Roxxon Brutes
  • 1 Sephiroth's Intervention
  • 1 Silence the Echo
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Spell Snare
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Submerged Boneyard
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Super-Adaptoid
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swordsman, Sharp Scoundrel
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Masters of Evil
  • 1 Theoretical Necromancer
  • 1 Thunderbolts Conspiracy
  • 1 Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance
  • 1 Trickster's Stratagem
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unstable Experiment
  • 1 Venom, Evil Unleashed
  • 1 Villainous Hideout
  • 1 Visions of Villainy
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Withering Curse
  • 1 Yellowjacket, Heartless Marauder