Kambal by Wollie

Format: Commander

Commander: Kambal, Profiteering Mayor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov token aristocrats build commanded by Kambal, Profiteering Mayor. The strategy pairs symmetrical token 'gift' effects—such as Hunted Horror, Slaughter Specialist, Clackbridge Troll, and Alliance of Arms—with Kambal's ability to copy opponent tokens and drain each opponent whenever your tokens enter. Backing up the commander is a dense package of traditional aristocrat drain engines including Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Cruel Celebrant, and Mirkwood Bats, powered by free sacrifice outlets like Ashnod's Altar and Warren Soultrader. Card advantage is sustained by efficient draw engines such as Skullclamp, Caretaker's Talent, and Black Market Connections, while removal packages like Swords to Plowshares, Get Lost, and Toxic Deluge keep opposing threats in check. The deck closes games around Turn 7 through overwhelming multi-trigger drain from Tombstone Stairwell, burst token flooding, or an alternate win condition via Halo Fountain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Alliance of Arms
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Awaken the Erstwhile
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Caretaker's Talent
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Champions from Beyond
  • 1 Clackbridge Troll
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 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 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Get Lost
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Halo Fountain
  • 1 Hunted Horror
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jacked Rabbit
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Kaya's Wrath
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 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 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Ox Drover
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Restless Fortress
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 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
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 The Sentry, Golden Guardian
  • 1 The War Games
  • 1 Tombstone Stairwell
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 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