Roza’s ‘Group Hug’ by tashizzle

Format: Commander

Commander: Kambal, Profiteering Mayor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck is commanded by Kambal, Profiteering Mayor, aiming to convert token creation into relentless group-wide life drain. The deck combines symmetric token generators that gift creatures or resources to opponents with Kambal's ability to copy those tokens and drain life. Early turns focus on establishing mana rocks and deploying Kambal by turn three. By turn four or five, engines like Genesis Chamber, Ophiomancer, and Tombstone Stairwell flood the board with tokens, triggering cascading life loss through Kambal, Mirkwood Bats, and Blood Artist. The deck protects its board state with flexible phasing and protection spells like Clever Concealment and Dawn's Truce, while keeping opposing threats in check with an efficient, low-cost removal suite. Rather than relying on infinite combos, the list secures victory by rapidly whittling down all three opponents' life totals simultaneously through unavoidable aristocrat triggers over two table rotations.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Alliance of Arms
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Angelic Ascension
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Baron Bertram Graywater
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bennie Bracks, Zoologist
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bovine Intervention
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Everybody Lives!
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Fateful Absence
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Genesis Chamber
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Halo Fountain
  • 1 Hunted Horror
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Kaya's Guile
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marching Duodrone
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Ceremonies
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Nuclear Fallout
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Slaughter Specialist
  • 10 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 2 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitude
  • 1 Soul Partition
  • 1 Stridehangar Automaton
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Tempt with Bunnies
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Tombstone Stairwell
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wedding Ring
  • 1 Wernog, Rider's Chaplain
  • 1 Windswept Heath