THE PHARAOH'S CURSE by butt

Format: Commander

Commander: Temmet, Naktamun's Will

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

Temmet, Naktamun's Will commands an Esper Zombie tribal deck designed to translate card draw and combat steps into sweeping, team-wide power buffs. The deck develops early board presence with efficient Zombie creatures and ramp before casting Temmet on Turn 4–5. When attacking, Temmet loots to trigger its own ability, buffing all controlled Zombies; this scales rapidly with dedicated combat draw engines like Varina, Lich Queen, Raffine, Scheming Seer, and Kindred Discovery. Decisive finishers such as Akroma's Will, Knowledge Is Power, and The Scarab God turn wide boards into table eliminations across Turns 6–7. While the deck boasts strong functional redundancy, recursive resilience, and multiple independent tribal payoffs, it operates without specific tutors or compact infinite combos, relying on continuous combat pressure and card velocity to overpower opposing interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Binding Mummy
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Cleaver Skaab
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Cryptcaller Chariot
  • 1 Curse of the Restless Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 God-Eternal Oketra
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Keep Watch
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Knowledge Is Power
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Necroduality
  • 1 On Wings of Gold
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prophet of the Scarab
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Ratadrabik of Urborg
  • 1 Renewed Solidarity
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rise of the Dread Marn
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Temmet, Naktamun's Will
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Titan of Littjara
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Unholy Grotto
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Varina, Lich Queen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vizier of Many Faces
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wand of Orcus
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wayward Servant
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Zombie Master