gbgbbg by user1007723

Format: Commander

Commander: Kambal, Profiteering Mayor

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov token-aristocrats and group-slug strategy led by Kambal, Profiteering Mayor. The game plan exploits a unique dynamic: deliberately giving creature and artifact tokens to opponents using symmetrical and generous spells, which triggers Kambal to copy those tokens and drain each opponent's life total. Early turns focus on establishing mana fixing, card draw engines like Caretaker's Talent and Welcoming Vampire, and deploying Kambal on curve. In the midgame, the deck punishes opposing actions with cards like Smothering Tithe and Orcish Bowmasters while deterring attacks using combat-reversing fogs like Inkshield and Batwing Brume. The deck closes games around Turn 6 or 7 through explosive mass-token drain engines, most notably Tombstone Stairwell, Alliance of Arms, or Mirkwood Bats, which trigger massive bursts of life drain across the table during each player's upkeep and end step.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Ajani, Strength of the Pride
  • 1 Akroan Horse
  • 1 Alliance of Arms
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Angelic Ascension
  • 1 Angelsong
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Awaken the Erstwhile
  • 1 Baron Bertram Graywater
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Batwing Brume
  • 1 Benevolent Offering
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Call the Coppercoats
  • 1 Caretaker's Talent
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Dark Salvation
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Dramatic Finale
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Emergency Eject
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Get Lost
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hanweir Militia Captain // Westvale Cult Leader
  • 1 Horn of Valhalla // Ysgard's Call
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Hunted Bonebrute
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Infernal Genesis
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mana Tithe
  • 1 March of Souls
  • 1 Marching Duodrone
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Ceremonies
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Regal Bloodlord
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silverwing Squadron
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Slaughter Specialist
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The War Games
  • 1 Tombstone Stairwell
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire