Commander's Orphanage: Tymaret's Lifegain Shanty

Commander / EDH Group Slug Lifegain Mono-Black

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Sorcery (18)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Blood Tithe
• 1x Bond of Agony
• 1x Cruel Tutor
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Essence Harvest
• 1x Extinguish All Hope
• 1x From Under the Floorboards
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Plague Wind
• 1x Plague of Vermin
• 1x Sanguimancy
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Artifact (11)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Enchantment (17)

• 1x Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Chainer's Torment
• 1x Creeping Dread
• 1x Curse of Fool's Wisdom
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Font of Agonies
• 1x Gonti's Machinations
• 1x Ill-Gotten Inheritance
• 1x Infectious Curse  ^Flip
• 1x Lich's Mastery
• 1x Measure of Wickedness
• 1x Night Dealings
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Soul Channeling
• 1x Subversion

Instant (8)

• 1x Devour in Shadow
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Pharika's Libation
• 1x Tendrils of Corruption
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Vendetta
• 1x Vraska's Contempt

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

Commander (1)

Creature (12)

• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Defiant Bloodlord
• 1x Epicure of Blood
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1x Kalastria Nightwatch
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Nirkana Assassin
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Tavern Swindler
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1x Wall of Limbs

Land (32)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 25x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Witch's Cottage

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Have you ever wondered why in every single card he's in, Tymaret is always screaming? It's because he's not screaming, he's singing.

And what is he singing you might add?

Well obviously a rivetting sea shanty about gaining life, because that's all this good for nothing commander is good for.

Okay that was a little over the top, but demigod Tymaret just doesn't seem to have the staying power in comparison with some of his other arisen siblings, as this card isn't much other than some graveyard hate and some lifegain.

OR IS IT

Building around this requires a lot of lifegain, a lot of ways to use the life we've gained to win (either by draining our opponents or triggering a card like Aetherflux Reservoir, and drawing a lot of cards and looking down at our opponent's puny life totals like the elitist scum we are.

Now, I hear you asking, why not use a mono-black commander that is perhaps a little bit more suited for the job, such as K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth, Kokusho, the Evening Star or Vilis, Broker of Blood instead?

Well it is the lowest costed legendary mono-black creature with gain life in its text, it serves as a guarunteed tempo play assuming you have at least two swamps ready, and it is the only card among the available who replaces draining opponents life, with draining their graveyards.

Cards such as K'rrik or Vilis require our life total to already be decent enough to play around with, while Kokusho has to hit the graveyard in order for his effect to go off, not a big deal for mono-black, but outside of the flavor of our strategy. Tymaret essentially serves as a budget The Scarab God, losing out on the stealing effect, but hating on the graveyard for 2 less mana, enabling our life gain strategy, and using his bard like songs to inspire us in battle.

But more importantly, in case you didn't read the title, we are on a trip to the Commander's Orphanage and we're changing the lives of all the abandoned commanders one at a time. Tymaret, despite being a literal demigod, only has THIRTEEN decks on EDHREC as of the writing of this description, and I believe it is time the shanty man got his dues.

Also, who else is gonna sing their shanties as they slay their enemies? Not K'rrik that's for sure.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.61
Tokens	Demon 5/5 B, Emblem Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath, Nightmare Horror */* B, Rat 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Decks, good commanders to beat these guys