Kambal v2 by jstout1990

Format: Commander

Commander: Kambal, Profiteering Mayor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a Forced-Token Aristocrats strategy commanded by Kambal, Profiteering Mayor. Rather than merely producing its own tokens, the deck weaponizes symmetrical and gift-based effects like Hunted Horror, Slaughter Specialist, Clackbridge Troll, and Alliance of Arms. Whenever opponents receive tokens, Kambal copies them and triggers table-wide life drain. The deck integrates traditional Orzhov aristocrat staples such as Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Mirkwood Bats, and Suture Priest to amplify the damage caused by token creation and creature deaths. Powerful engines like Tombstone Stairwell and Black Market Connections provide continuous fuel, while Skullclamp converts small tokens into massive card advantage. Defensively, the list relies on synergistic removal spells like Get Lost and Generous Gift, backed by Clever Concealment to phase out key pieces during sweepers. It consistently closes games around Turn 8 through overwhelming life drain and wide board states.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Alliance of Arms
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Awaken the Erstwhile
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bovine Intervention
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clackbridge Troll
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fisk Tower
  • 1 Foot Headquarters
  • 1 Forlorn Flats
  • 1 Forum of Amity
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Get Lost
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Halo Fountain
  • 1 Hunted Horror
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jacked Rabbit
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Marching Duodrone
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Master of Ceremonies
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Misty Palms Oasis
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Ox Drover
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Restless Fortress
  • 1 Rootborn Defenses
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silverquill Campus
  • 1 Silverquill Lecturer
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Slaughter Specialist
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Tempt with Bunnies
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 The Sentry, Golden Guardian
  • 1 The War Games
  • 1 Tombstone Stairwell
  • 1 Transmogrifying Wand
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Umbral Expanse
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wedding Ring
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat