Kambal - Have This In The Meantime by Andwyrnd

Format: Commander

Commander: Kambal, Profiteering Mayor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

Led by Kambal, Profiteering Mayor, this Orzhov token deck turns symmetrical token creation and removal gifts into asymmetric life drain and go-wide combat pressure. The strategy revolves around Kambal's ability to mirror any tokens opponents create while draining each opponent for 1 life whenever you make tokens. By running removal spells like Get Lost, Generous Gift, and Stroke of Midnight that give opponents tokens, the deck transforms routine interaction into offensive value. During the early turns, the deck deploys low-cost token generators and draw engines like Welcoming Vampire and Caretaker's Talent. By Turn 4 to 5, high-impact multipliers like Illustrious Wanderglyph, Adeline, Resplendent Cathar, and Mirkwood Bats accelerate token production and drain output. The deck closes games around Turn 7 through accumulated drain and wide combat attacks boosted by Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery, supported by instant-speed board protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Afterlife Insurance
  • 1 Ainok Strike Leader
  • 1 Alliance of Arms
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Benevolent Offering
  • 1 Bennie Bracks, Zoologist
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bovine Intervention
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Call the Coppercoats
  • 1 Caretaker's Talent
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery
  • 1 Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Emergency Eject
  • 1 Endless Foot Assault
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Get Lost
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Great Unclean One
  • 1 Gruesome Fate
  • 1 Hidden Stockpile
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Illustrious Wanderglyph
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Luminarch Ascension
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marching Duodrone
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Ocelot Pride
  • 1 Parting Gust
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Rabble Rousing
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Season of the Burrow
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Teysa, Opulent Oligarch
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 The Sentry, Golden Guardian
  • 1 The War Games
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Tombstone Stairwell
  • 1 Tribute to Horobi // Echo of Death's Wail
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Wedding Ring
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Will of the Mardu