Brewing With Underwhelming Commanders | Tymaret, the Murder King

[@kovala]

I absolutely love this series and will never skip a vid. You have a great knack for showing how even old, somewhat underpowered commanders can still compete at a casual table if they’re built around tight synergy. Keep up the good work, Demo!

[@ivernedit]

I see you chose tymaret and that makes me really happy to see after building him a few months back

[@edhdeckbuilding]

i believe you asked me to include this in the poll.

[@ivernedit]

@@edhdeckbuilding I appreciate you remembering!

[@Cynsham]

Dude this sort of content is honestly a breath of fresh air in the overarching MTG content sphere. Please keep them up, I started brewing a Taigam, Sidisi's Hand reanimator deck with a subtheme of enemy graveyard hate to make use of a card like Mists of Stagnation because of your channel and this series.

[@charmingsalesman8058]

The murder King was the second commander I built ever all the back in 2016! Mostly just used threaten or creature stealing effects then sac them at end of turn.

[@jameslabbe4119]

This what i use as a budget cEDH combo commander. The fact he's a zombie is key because you can start looping gravecrawler and after generating infinite mana, you just burn out the table. Cheap to cast, and in the right colors for fast wins

[@taylorperkins5279]

Great video Demo! I may need to put this deck together. A fodder card to consider: Ophiomancer. This is such a powerhouse for my aristocratic decks, especially if you are sacrificing on other player’s turns!! Thanks for the vid - looking forward to the others!

[@dreyfus37_65]

Open the graves is one of my favorite ways in my Garna deck to turn my creatures into tokens for more sac fodder. Cool deck you built there though. Love the auntie Blyte inclusion!

[@ChristiantrospectiveGamer]

Fiery Emancipation works too. It's Gratuitous Violence for one more mana that deals triple instead of double.

[@spurcalluth6300]

That's an amazing include.

[@barrysetser3909]

Not bad at all; would be a nice way to get around all them pillowfort decks I've been seeing of late. Starting to think you got a thing for Lyzolda

[@barrysetser3909]

Might have a spambot here Demo...

[@bobbycallaway1819]

I've been toying with building this guy for years, ever since Mitch on CQ built a "metal" budget deck. Problem is, I already have 4 Rakdos decks, so I should probably diversify. Nonetheless, excellent work as always Demo. Great, practical deck construction.

[@nikolibarastov4487]

I was a Dick and made my Tyrmaret deck an Act of Treason Sac Deck, with Bloodshot Cyclops and such, also Undying Creatures so they can be used multiple times, and Whip of Erebos.

[@teferitoots8043]

The brand new Solphim, Mayhem Dominus

[@ManrielXiii]

5:03

[@zkull777]

I had a deck with Tymaret at the helm but I switched it to Juri I might make another Tymaret deck with some of these elements you showed in it. Thanks for the ideas.

[@thrash208]

Tymaret was actually one of my first commanders i never thought he was underwheling i always thought he was overlooked. I went with a voltron sort of build with a sacrafice theme. Grave pact, dictate of erobos, blood artist thst kid of stuff. I found him oppressive more than anything.

[@cephalonsark1530]

Funny enough, tymaret is a deck that I own and I've made mine quite powerful. Tymaret is a nice commander for just sacrificing repeatedly, like a weird reassembling skeleton that can also shock people. He's not optimal, but I love him.

[@cephalonsark1530]

Note: discarding tymaret to cards like Macabre Waltz or cathartic reunion to get value from Syr Konrad is great!

[@ChristiantrospectiveGamer]

If you want to put your players on a faster clock, equip Tymaret with Grafted Exoskeleton.

[@shapooopiefour7173]

Vithian Stinger and Vengeful Devil might be good sac-fodder; you can ping for a little damage before sacrificing. One comes back, the other’s cheap, and both have haste.

[@jeffreylong1478]

If your playgroups ok with it and you want to increase his power, giving him infect would be a solid win con.

[@Axelovskji]

I would have loved seeing a rakdos zombie tribal but these videos are great as always

[@matthewgallaway3675]

I love tymerret

[@thelunchlady8276]

What about Fiery Emancipation?

[@ivernedit]

The one theme for tymaret you didn’t do was using threaten effects to steal your opponents creatures and fling them back at them or use tymaret to sac them to get him back to hand.

[@apjapki]

Probably because the altars are just much better than that.

[@apjapki]

Lyzolda just seems better than Tymaret in every way except commander tax and tax isn't a huge deal for a 2 mana creature. I'm guessing people often build these as infect, right?

[@apjapki]

@@zackkelley2940 No disagree from me but it's easy to make a direct comparison because Lyzolda is incredibly similar. For all intents and purposes, she is strictly better at the exact same thing.

[@connorl0204]

Was surprised to not see a Fiery Emancipation in the video. Triple damage is pretty good everywhere Double damage is, as far as i can tell. Another suggestion might be something like a basilisk collar so that you can gain life off of tymaret’s ability.

[@JohnQueSacc]

I feel like Judith is a better commander for this kind of deck