The Dark Horse from Born of the Gods: Servant of Tymaret

You are underestimating my powers!

	To be honest, Born of the Gods wasn't too impactful for Standard Pauper. It didn't provide much tools for innovators and the most successful archetypes remained the same. Actually, two decks winning MPDCs post-BNG ran no card from it (shootout to rremedio1 for finally taking down a tournament with a list running BNG cards). Despite a lack of power in the set, one, in my opinion, strong card got overlooked. It's Servant of Tymaret. There are currently 4 cards, all white, which can exile creatures in this format. Counterspells and bounce can get rid of the Servant but blue isn't popular in general right now. Servant of Tymaret is a great blocker against any ground creature, has immunity to removal spells, heals us and damages our opponent. It is close to a planeswalker with so much utility! Such a versatile card is expected to be very good in an underpowered commons-only format. Nevertheless, this powerful card needs a home. With 1 power it's hard to get through and without it's inspired trigger 1/3 blocker is not all that impessive. This means we want to be playing this card in a deck, which has plenty of removal for opposing creatures. The first place I tried Servant in was Dimir and it was awesome there. Due to the fact that Servant is black, we can have a lot of removal in any  deck with him. It is definitely fitting in Orzhov Extort and maybe it's possible to brew some kind of Rakdos burn/drain deck. Not sure about synergies in Golgari colours but if it wants to go controllish Servant is always available. I would like to also mention that in event, where Dimir Control dominates the format again, Servant could be an option. It has a lot of resilience and creates a "quick" 10 turns clock. It would also be a nice sideboard for every  Black deck against Mill decks. Metagame is still full of aggro decks and counterspell-based Dimir Control has a hard time keeping up. I'm much more interested to try Servant out in a black deck with either red or white. Or, considering latest results for three-coloured decks, BWR control. These colours provide us all the removal we want and we can add  Ubul Sar Gatekeeper due to our mana base. For MPDC 24.04 I decided to play Rakdos Mono-removal and it didn't pan out very well. Creatures 4 Servant of Tymaret 4 Kragma Butcher Spells 4 Devour Flesh 4 Grisly Spectacle 4 Lightning Strike 4 Pharika's Cure 4 Read the Bones 4 Shock 3 Auger Spree 2 Razortip Whip   Lands 12 Swamp 7 Mountain 4 Rakdos Guildgate SIDEBOARD 4 Duress 3 Stab Wound 2 Razortip Whip 2 Electrickery 1 Crypt Incursion 1 Auger Spree 1 Mind Rot 1 Asphyxiate After some practice I learned that Servant has a lot more ways to die than I previously thought. Devour Flesh is a cheap and clean answer considering our Servant of Tymaret is going to be alone on the battlefield most of the time. -X/-X removal sells also get rid of this creature and Quag Sickness is a popular card in most of Black decks. Last Breath is yet another popular removal spell in White that can get rid of our every creature. Kragma Butcher was lackluster for me because our opponent had a removal spell for it pretty much all the time. Overall, deck didn‘t perform up to my expectations, but it was still a great lesson  for me that not everything what‘s great on paper is good in practice. Please, do not underestimate Servant of Tymaret because of my failed experiment though. It‘s still a great card with no shell for it to shine yet. I made this deck just to test Servant‘s power in a correct environment. Unfortunately, this list is not even close to a perfect one for Servant of Tymaret. Yet, it's a start. The card is really powerful and with more people exploring it, someone should find a way to break it. See you in the next MPDC, Mundisv