Tymaret - Pestilence Recursion

[ISBPathfinder]

I loved Tymaret, Chosen from Death from the standpoint of a commander who comes in early and scales into the game. He feels like he is always going to be relevant as a blocker, grave hate, and lifegain. So, with this I was starting off my build thinking about an interactive mono black control deck. As I was building this I started getting into a few concepts that I kind of keyed into.

• Devotion - I don't neccessarily need my commander to have a huge backside but devotion but I got into thinking about how things like Phyrexian Arena / Necropotence gave me a good bit of devotion while splitting my devotion between creatures and non.
• Pestilence - After looking into enchantments a bit, I realized that the commander seemed to fit a Pestilence shell somewhat well. Being that he has a big back end and especially the fact that the enchantment versions tended to buff his size up sufficiently to not kill him. Sweeping small creatures and doing damage to opponents also works out from the standpoint that I can gain life from my commander and the Pestilence effects put targets in the graveyard for me to nibble up.
• Mass Reanimation - Whenever I have a commander who gives me grave hate, I also like looking into mass reanimation. One sided Living Death is really great after all.
• Edicts - Given the Pestilence effects, the bigger or indestructable / regenerators tend to be a bit of an issue. Things like Fleshbag Marauder also fit into the mass reanimation plan which seemed to fit for me. I was looking into ETB black creatures for the reanimation plans already and edicts seemed to check a box for me. I haven't gone deeper into something like Grave Pact in part because I wasn't really built to sacrifice things for the most part.

Decklist

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COMMANDER (1)

1 Tymaret, Chosen from Death

CREATURES (20)

1 Burnished Hart

1 Crypt Rats

1 Fleshbag Marauder

1 Liliana's Specter

1 Merciless Executioner

1 Plaguecrafter

1 Stinkweed Imp

1 Crypt Ghast

1 Dread Presence

1 Erebos, God of the Dead

1 Golden Guardian

1 Ravenous Chupacabra

1 Solemn Simulacrum

1 Doom Whisperer

1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel

1 Thrashing Wumpus

1 Demon of Dark Schemes

1 Geth, Lord of the Vault

1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

1 Pestilence Demon

ARTIFACT (13)

1 Sol Ring

1 Dowsing Dagger

1 Mind Stone

1 Sword of the Animist

1 Thaumatic Compass

1 Darksteel Plate

1 Oblivion Stone

1 Sword of Feast and Famine

1 Boompile

1 Thran Dynamo

1 Whip of Erebos

1 Batterskull

1 Lifeline

ENCHANTMENT (10)

1 Bitterblossom

1 Necromancy

1 Necropotence

1 Oppression

1 Phyrexian Arena

1 Withering Wisps

1 Greed

1 Pestilence

1 Painful Quandary

1 Polluted Bonds

INSTANT (8)

1 Defile

1 Vampiric Tutor

1 Go for the Throat

1 Wake the Dead

1 Word of Command

1 Silence the Believers

1 Tendrils of Corruption

1 Fated Return

SORCERY (9)

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Night's Whisper

1 Torment of Hailfire

1 Read the Bones

1 Toxic Deluge

1 Yawgmoth's Will

1 Siphon Mind

1 Living Death

1 Twilight's Call

PLANESWALKER (1)

1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General

LAND (38)

1 Cabal Coffers

1 Cabal Stronghold

1 High Market

1 Myriad Landscape

1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

1 Phyrexian Tower

1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse

25 Snow-Covered Swamp

1 Thespian's Stage

1 Tower of the Magistrate

1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

1 Vesuva

1 Volrath's Stronghold

1 Winding Canyons

Approximate Total Cost:

[darrenhabib]

Shame all the "Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power." are outside of black.

I like Nezumi Graverobber in this deck, because Tymaret, Chosen from Death can preemptively keep a graveyard shallow, so flipping Graverobber should be very easy.

Bloodghast is an easy way to always have access to additional devotion. If you have fetch-lands then this makes it even better.

Just in general those colorless lands are going to be a liability rather than a boon most games as you can't rely on Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth for Cabal Stronghold, Crypt Ghast, Dread Presence, Tendrils of Corruption, Defile.
I would cut Tower of the Magistrate, Winding Canyons, Phyrexian Tower, High Market for Swamps and your deck will be better for it over the course of games.
I get you want to sacrifice creatures in response to Living Death or Twilight's Call or perhaps get additional ETB triggers from Volrath's Stronghold or Whip of Erebos type thing. But you have so many other ways to kill creatures with your Pestilence effects and between simply blocking attacks, that you don't need additional lands to sacrifice and they do come at a cost in your particular build.

Balthor the Defiled also might have a place as you can exile opponents black and red creatures before pulling the trigger.