This long weekend and holiday celebration gave me time to continue working on a deck with the card interaction that Alex and I discussed a few weeks back. The card combo is Tymaret, the Murder King and Gift of Immortality.

With the ‘Oros’ (Black Red White) colors, it was somewhat difficult at first to add the right cards in the list. We needed a creature with Thragtusk-ish ability to whom would be the gift’s best target. It was then that the current best five drop in Black got our attention: the Gray Merchant of Asphodel.

With a few tweaks and turns of the deck components, I’ve finally came up with this list:

Tymaret’s Gift by Mark Ian Alloso
Standard

Lands
2 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Plains
2 Rakdos Guildgate
4 Blood Crypt
4 Godless Shrine
2 Sacred Foundry
4 Swamp
1 Mountain
4 Temple of Silence

Creatures
3 Tymaret, the Murder King
4 Cartel Aristocrat
4 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
2 Pack Rat
1 Agent of the Fates
2 Desecration Demon
2 Obzedat, Ghost Council
4 Lifebane Zombie

Spells
2 Whip of Erebos
2 Underworld Connections
3 Gift of Immortality
3 Hero’s Downfall
1 Doom Blade
1 Ultimate Price
1 Dark Prophecy
1 Rakdos’s Return

I’ve found it late that the deck actually has a lot of other card interactions aside from the card combo main goal. For example: the Pack Rats and Tymaret. These two makes your less used creature a copy of the rat. Do these by discarding the Murder king first to Pack Rat to get a copy, then sacrifice the other creature to return Tymaret back to your hand.

The spells choices, aside from the usual spot removals, included are Underworld Connections and Dark Prophecy which works well with the sacrifice engine for card draws. Also, Whip of Erebos is another graveyard enabler and gains your critters lifelink advantage against Red aggro decks as well. The sole Rakdos’s Return is a good outlet once you’ve setup your Nykthos mana and just burn out your opponent down to zero life.

I might have missed a few things in this deck archetype here so I am open to know your suggestions and recommendations. Place them up in the comment box below.

At the moment, I don’t think I can put this list into a physical deck given the conflict of the nonbasic lands used in our other decks in the card pool. I might just give it a run on MWS to see any flaws or less used cards.

Until next post.