Overview:

This Kambal, Profiteering Mayor deck focuses on a token-copying strategy combined with life drain effects, creating a snowballing value engine through token generation and life manipulation. The deck aims to create advantageous token situations while slowly draining opponents' life totals.

Primer:

The deck operates on multiple axes, primarily focusing on generating value through token creation and copying. The commander, Kambal, Profiteering Mayor, serves as both a token duplicator and a life drain engine, working particularly well with cards like Forbidden Orchard, Genesis Chamber, and Tombstone Stairwell. The deck includes several ways to create tokens for opponents, which then get copied by Kambal, turning seemingly symmetrical effects into asymmetrical advantages.

The secondary strategy involves life drain effects through cards like Blood Artist, Meathook Massacre, and Agent of the Iron Throne. These pieces combine with the token strategy to create a steady drain on opponents' life totals. The deck includes strong card advantage engines like Black Market Connections and Bennie Bracks, Zoologist, along with efficient removal and board wipes to control the game while building its engine.

Weaknesses:

• The deck is vulnerable to graveyard hate, which can shut down several key recursive elements.
• Relies heavily on enchantments and artifacts for its engine pieces, making it susceptible to targeted removal.
• Can struggle against faster combo decks due to its relatively slow setup time.
• Limited protection for key pieces makes it vulnerable to interaction.

Most Important Cards:

1. Smothering Tithe
2. The Meathook Massacre
3. Tombstone Stairwell
4. Panharmonicon
5. Blood Artist
6. Genesis Chamber
7. Black Market Connections
8. Mondrak, Glory Dominus
9. Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
10. Forbidden Orchard

Attribute Ratings:

• Speed: 5/10
• Resilience: 6/10
• Consistency: 7/10
• Interaction: 7/10

Rating Justification:

This deck sits comfortably in the 6.0-6.5 range due to its consistent strategy execution and decent interaction suite. While it lacks the explosive speed of higher-powered decks, it makes up for it with strong value generation and multiple paths to victory. The deck can establish a commanding board presence by turns 7-8, which aligns with the focused-to-optimized power level range.

Final power level rating: 6.0 - 6.5

The deck shows clear optimization in its strategy but doesn't quite reach the speed and efficiency needed for higher power levels. It maintains good interaction and resilience through redundant effects and strong removal options, making it a solid performer in mid-power pods while falling short of truly competitive builds.