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Temporal Treachery

Kang loops through his own draw step, connives his way to value, and drowns the table in villains before they ever get a second turn to matter.

Commander · by @evilBOD · 2026-07-24

Kang, Temporal Tyrant
Commander

Kang, Temporal Tyrant 2UB

Legendary Creature — Human Villain BU

Whenever Kang attacks, he connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Key cards

Leader, Super-Genius Leader, Super-Genius Madame Masque Madame Masque Stolen Stark Tech Stolen Stark Tech

$40.28 total value · €36.70 · prices as of 2026-09-15

Value over the last 8 price days: $43.72 → $40.28 (-3.44)
Most expensive cards
  • Cosmic Cube$11.34
  • Namor the Sub-Mariner$3.99
  • Hidden Lair$2.31
  • Black Widow, Super Spy$1.63
  • Loki, God of Mischief$1.54
  • The Wondrous Wasp$1.14
  • Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic$0.82
  • The Vision$0.75
  • Doom Reigns Supreme$0.38
  • Leader, Super-Genius$0.35
100 cards 64 spells 36 lands avg CMC 3.09 U30B35

Mana curve

0
0
3
1
14
2
26
3
17
4
3
5
1
6
0
7+

mana value · lands excluded

Card types

  • Creature 40
  • Instant 9
  • Sorcery 3
  • Artifact 4
  • Enchantment 8
  • Land 36

Colors

  • U 46% (30)
  • B 54% (35)

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Strategy

This is a Dimir (U/B) Villains value-and-attrition deck built around Kang, Temporal Tyrant. Kang connives whenever he attacks and drains the table every time you draw your second card in a turn — and this deck is stuffed with cards that trigger off exactly that. The plan is to flood the board with cheap Villains, force extra draws through connive and card-draw effects, and let the "second card each turn" payoffs (tokens, counters, life drain, discard) snowball into an unstoppable value engine while Kang chips in incremental drain damage.

Roles

  • Threat: Kang, Temporal Tyrant, Elektra, Daughter of the Hand, Madame Masque, Roxxon Brutes, Unliving Legionnaire
  • Removal: Hour of Defeat, Cruel Alliance, Trickster's Stratagem, Depower, Widow's Bite
  • Ramp: Dependable Quinjet, Surveillance Room, Villainous Hideout, A.I.M. Labs
  • Card draw: A.I.M. Scientists, Leader, Super-Genius, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, I Am Iron Man, Futurist Forge
  • Protection: Ghost, Spectral Saboteur (unblockable evasion), Stolen Stark Tech (indestructible), We Say Thee Nay!
  • Lands: 5 Dimir-friendly utility lands plus 31 basics (17 Island / 14 Swamp), weighted blue for Kang's and Attuma's double-blue costs

Synergies & curve

The deck's backbone is the "draw your second card" trigger shared by Kang, Temporal Tyrant, Roxxon Brutes, Madame Masque, and Construct a Cosmic Cube — connive effects from Baron Strucker, HYDRA Troopers, Red Room Recruit, A.I.M. Scientists, and Leader, Super-Genius all supply that second draw naturally. Swordsman, Sharp Scoundrel turns every Villain entering into a free equip-and-connive, making the equipment suite (Vibranium Energy Daggers, Iron Man Armor, Stolen Stark Tech) more than just stat sticks. The curve is low and grindy: 1-2 mana connive creatures and mana rocks early, mid-game value engines like Taskmaster and Moonstone, Harsh Mistress, and a light top end of Atlantis Attacks and The Vision to close games.

Attack with an equipped Kang, Temporal Tyrant, connive to find a second draw trigger, drain the table for 1, then untap into Baron Strucker connive-chaining your whole board before anyone gets a turn back.

Weak spots

The deck is light on hard board wipes and has no dedicated ramp beyond a handful of rocks and tap-lands, so it can be slow to stabilize against fast aggro. Card draw is largely incidental (tied to connive/second-draw triggers) rather than proactive, meaning a removal-heavy table can strip away the engine pieces before they compound. There's also no true reanimation payoff beyond Too Evil to Stay Dead, so graveyard value is opportunistic rather than a real backup plan.

Decklist (100 cards)

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📦 Find in your boxes — by set

MSH · Marvel Super Heroes · 100 cards

🔵 Blue · 23
1× A.I.M. Scientists #44
1× Atlantean Cavalry #45
1× Attuma, Atlantean Warlord #47
1× Depower #50
1× Echo, Perceptive Prodigy #51
1× Frozen in Ice #54
1× Futurist Forge #55
1× Giant-Sized Flying Ant #56
1× I Am Iron Man #58
1× Justice, Vance Astrovik #61
1× Kid Loki #63
1× Leader, Super-Genius #64
1× Loki, God of Mischief #65
1× Namor the Sub-Mariner #69
1× Rewrite History #71
1× Secret Invasion #72
1× S.H.I.E.L.D. Deployment Drone #73
1× Super Intelligence #77
1× Thirst for Knowledge #79
1× Trickster's Stratagem #81
1× We Say Thee Nay! #82
1× The Wondrous Wasp #84
1× Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards #320
⚫ Black · 31
1× Agents of HYDRA #85
1× Arnim Zola, Bio-Fanatic #86
1× Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord #88
1× Black Widow, Super Spy #89
1× Construct a Cosmic Cube #90
1× Crossbones, Malicious Mercenary #91
1× Cruel Alliance #92
1× Dark Deed #93
1× Decoy Ploy #94
1× Doom Reigns Supreme #96
1× Elektra, Daughter of the Hand #97
1× Hour of Defeat #99
1× HYDRA Infiltration #100
1× HYDRA Troopers #101
1× Kingpin's Enforcers #102
1× Klaw, Sonic Subjugator #103
1× Madame Masque #104
1× The Masters of Evil #105
1× Moonstone, Harsh Mistress #107
1× Ninja of the Hand #108
1× Project Deathlok Soldier #109
1× Red Room Recruit #110
1× Robot Domination #111
1× Ronin, Shadow Stalker #112
1× Roxxon Brutes #113
1× Stolen Stark Tech #114
1× Too Evil to Stay Dead #118
1× Unliving Legionnaire #119
1× Visions of Villainy #120
1× Widow's Bite #122
1× Yellowjacket, Heartless Marauder #123
🎨 Multicolor · 3
1× Ghost, Spectral Saboteur #214
1× Kang, Temporal Tyrant #217
1× Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic #232
◇ Colorless · 7
1× A.I.M. Synthoids #242
1× Cosmic Cube #245
1× Dependable Quinjet #246
1× H.E.R.B.I.E. Scout Unit #247
1× Ultron Drone #253
1× The Vision #255
1× Viv Vision, Teen Synthezoid #256
🏞 Lands · 36
1× A.I.M. Labs #257
1× Baxter Building #261
1× Hidden Lair #269
1× Surveillance Room #274
1× Villainous Hideout #276
17× Island #279 · only 8 here
13× Swamp #292 · only 6 here
1× Avengers Tower #334

Grouped by the set of the copies in this deck's build-pool lists, then by color the way a sorted box is — # is the collector number inside the set.

Version history (5)
  • v5 2026-09-02 · current
    +1 Justice, Vance Astrovik −1 Grim Reaper, Lethal Legionnaire
  • v4 2026-08-19
    +1 HYDRA Troopers −1 Madame Hydra
  • v3 2026-08-18
    +1 Agents of HYDRA+1 Black Widow, Super Spy+1 Construct a Cosmic Cube+1 Decoy Ploy+1 Kid Loki+1 Loki, God of Mischief+1 Madame Hydra+1 Secret Invasion+1 Super Intelligence+1 The Masters of Evil+1 The Wondrous Wasp+1 Thirst for Knowledge −1 Arc Reactor−1 Atlantis Attacks−1 Captain America's Shield−1 Falcon, Winged Wonder−1 Hydraulic Helper−1 Iron Man Armor−1 S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier−1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor−1 Super Suit−1 Swordsman, Sharp Scoundrel−1 Vibranium Energy Daggers−1 Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer
  • v2 2026-08-15
    +1 Arnim Zola, Bio-Fanatic+1 Baxter Building+1 Crossbones, Malicious Mercenary+1 Dark Deed+1 Doom Reigns Supreme+1 Grim Reaper, Lethal Legionnaire+1 Klaw, Sonic Subjugator+1 Namor the Sub-Mariner+1 Robot Domination −1 Aerial Doombot−1 Bold Biochemist−1 Construct a Cosmic Cube−1 Decoy Ploy−1 HYDRA Troopers−1 Justice, Vance Astrovik−1 Stature, Size Shifter−1 Super Intelligence−1 Swamp
  • v1 2026-07-24
    initial build

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