Myrkul by Lysdexic

Format: Commander

Creator: Lysdexic

Commander: Myrkul, Lord of Bones

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 18

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan Vehicles build helmed by Myrkul, Lord of Bones. Despite Myrkul sitting in the command zone, the deck contains almost no deliberate sacrifice engines, self-mill, or enchantment synergies to exploit Myrkul's death-trigger copying ability. Instead, the list functions almost exclusively as an artifact-based aggro deck centered around deploying low-cost pilot creatures and crewing midrange Vehicles like Renegade Freighter, Untethered Express, and Thundersteel Colossus. Because the deck runs 41 lands with very little low-cost mana acceleration or card draw, it operates strictly at casual parity. It reliably curves out small pilots into Vehicles by Turn 4, but its offensive clock is slow, taking until Turn 8 to present high-power tramplers. The interaction suite is narrow and reactive, while protection against mass removal is absent, making it vulnerable to standard multiplayer board wipes and defensive creature stalls.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Airship
  • 1 Alloy Animist
  • 1 Aradara Express
  • 1 Armament of Nyx
  • 1 Attentive Sunscribe
  • 1 Ballista Charger
  • 1 Beifong's Bounty Hunters
  • 1 Birnin Zana Plaza
  • 1 Brute Suit
  • 1 Capital City
  • 1 Careening Mine Cart
  • 1 Coeurl
  • 1 Colossal Plow
  • 1 Consulate Dreadnought
  • 1 Daring Mechanic
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Demolition Stomper
  • 1 Dependable Quinjet
  • 1 Detention Chariot
  • 1 Dragonfly Suit
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Forum of Amity
  • 1 From Father to Son
  • 1 Gavony Trapper
  • 1 Giant Ox
  • 1 Gluttonous Slime
  • 1 Golgari Keyrune
  • 1 Grafted Growth
  • 1 Greasefang, Okiba Boss
  • 1 Guardian of the Great Door
  • 1 Harvestguard Alseids
  • 1 High-Speed Hoverbike
  • 1 Intrepid Stablemaster
  • 1 Irontread Crusher
  • 1 Karametra's Blessing
  • 1 Karn, the Great Creator
  • 1 Long Feng, Grand Secretariat
  • 1 Luxurious Locomotive
  • 1 Mechtitan Core
  • 1 Miriam, Herd Whisperer
  • 1 Mobile Homestead
  • 1 Mothrider Patrol
  • 1 Myrkul, Lord of Bones
  • 1 Nexus Wardens
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Ovalchase Dragster
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 14 Plains
  • 1 Prismite
  • 1 Raiders' Karve
  • 1 Renegade Freighter
  • 1 Revealing Wind
  • 1 Sarinth Steelseeker
  • 1 Shay Cormac
  • 1 Shoulder to Shoulder
  • 1 Sky Skiff
  • 1 Skybox Ferry
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spotcycle Scouter
  • 1 Spring-Loaded Sawblades // Bladewheel Chariot
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 The Regalia
  • 1 Thundersteel Colossus
  • 1 Traveler's Amulet
  • 1 Untethered Express
  • 1 Wild Roads