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Kambal, Profiteering Mayor

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor

Whenever one or more tokens your opponents control enter, for each of them, create a tapped token that's a copy of it. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{W}{B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
rare
Set
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Promos
Price
$5.39
EDHREC rank
#1118
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Kambal, Profiteering Mayor card art
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor turns every token you produce into a Treasure, snowballing mana advantages that compound fast in any token-dense shell. At two mana in white-black, the floor is high enough that Warren Soultrader loops and Teysa, Opulent Oligarch engines will reliably include it as a core piece rather than a flex slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Teysa, Opulent Oligarch

Teysa, Opulent Oligarch

64.9% of decks · synergy 0.53

Teysa, Opulent Oligarch generates tokens on opponents' end steps and on creature deaths, meaning Kambal, Profiteering Mayor converts both triggers into Treasures — the deck's value loop gets a dedicated mana engine stapled to it.

02
Marneus Calgar

Marneus Calgar

54.4% of decks · synergy 0.50

Marneus Calgar draws a card for every nontoken creature that enters, and Kambal, Profiteering Mayor ensures each token creation event also produces Treasure — the result is simultaneous card and mana generation off the same board state.

03
Ratadrabik of Urborg

Ratadrabik of Urborg

58.4% of decks · synergy 0.46

Ratadrabik of Urborg copies legendary creatures as tokens on death, so every legend that dies creates a token and thus a Treasure via Kambal, Profiteering Mayor, turning each loss into an immediate mana refund.

04
Shadrix Silverquill

Shadrix Silverquill

53.8% of decks · synergy 0.42

Shadrix Silverquill distributes tokens to multiple players as part of its combat trigger, and Kambal, Profiteering Mayor converts those gifts into Treasures — even the tokens handed to opponents can generate value on your side of the board.

05
Vihaan, Goldwaker

Vihaan, Goldwaker

48.6% of decks · synergy 0.39

Vihaan, Goldwaker animates Treasures into attacking creatures, and Kambal, Profiteering Mayor feeds that supply by generating a new Treasure with each token produced — the two cards form a self-reinforcing loop of tokens becoming attackers becoming more tokens.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Kambal, Profiteering Mayor does its best work — token strategies are ubiquitous, multiplayer games run long enough for the Treasure accumulation to matter, and a two-mana permanent that rewards your whole gameplan demands an answer or it spirals. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it faces the same problem as most token payoffs: the format's pace demands more immediate impact, and a 2/2 that needs a board state to fire rarely makes the cut over creatures that close games outright. Legacy and Vintage have access to enough broken token generation that the effect is theoretically exploitable, but the competition at those power levels is steep. Standard is the most interesting non-Commander home — if a token-dense standard environment exists, Kambal slots cleanly into midrange aristocrats builds as a value engine that also produces bodies.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Anointed Procession doesn't replace Kambal, Profiteering Mayor directly but addresses the same token-density goal at a lower price point, doubling your output so even weaker token generators become threatening. If you specifically want the Treasure conversion angle on a budget, Inspiring Leader and similar payoffs fall short — the honest answer is that the Treasure-per-token effect is fairly unique to Kambal, and the closest functional substitute is accepting a slower, purely-anthem-based token build rather than one that generates mana.

Price Context

Current price

$5.39 mid tier

At $5.39, Kambal, Profiteering Mayor sits in the mid tier — affordable enough that token commanders will include it without budget hesitation, expensive enough that it's a real purchase rather than a bulk pickup. Given its inclusion rates across multiple high-population Commander archetypes, the price is justified and unlikely to erode as long as token strategies remain popular.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.