The Murder King by bribewithwaffles

Format: Commander

Commander: Tymaret, the Murder King

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Rakdos Aristocrats strategy led by Tymaret, the Murder King. The primary plan develops a resilient engine using low-cost recursive creatures, sacrifice outlets, and drain payoffs. Early turns establish mana rocks and setup permanents like Black Market Connections or Goblin Bombardment. By Turn 4, the deck deploys self-recurring threats such as Gravecrawler, Forsaken Miner, or Nether Traitor to generate steady sacrifice value. On Turn 5, high-impact multipliers like Mayhem Devil, Bastion of Remembrance, or Pitiless Plunderer accelerate the clock, turning every death into direct damage and resource generation. While the deck can assemble a three-card infinite combo with Pitiless Plunderer, Gravecrawler, and Goblin Bombardment, its primary path to victory is compounding life drain and board control that closes games around Turn 7. The deck excels at grinding through creature removal thanks to graveyard recursion, but remains vulnerable to rest-in-peace style exile effects and dedicated board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Anax, Hardened in the Forge
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dimir House Guard
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eaten Alive
  • 1 Eviscerator's Insight
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fireglass Mentor
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
  • 1 Garna, Bloodfist of Keld
  • 1 General Kreat, the Boltbringer
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Greater Gargadon
  • 1 Gutterbones
  • 1 Hammerhead, Maggia Boss
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Immersturm Predator
  • 1 Judith, the Scourge Diva
  • 1 Kher Keep
  • 1 Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Magda, the Hoardmaster
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Molten Collapse
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Pinecone Strike
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Joins Up
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restless Vents
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Sawblade Skinripper
  • 1 Skeleton Crew
  • 1 Skittering Precursor
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sothera, the Supervoid
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Stormclaw Rager
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Susurian Voidborn
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Tenacious Underdog
  • 1 Theater of Horrors
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Tymaret, the Murder King
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Undead Sprinter
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Vat of Rebirth
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat