Enter the Arena by user4651410

Format: Commander

Commander: Maarika, Brutal Gladiator

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Maarika, Brutal Gladiator commands a Jund midrange beatdown strategy centered on forced combat and devastating fight mechanics. Maarika demands blocks and possesses indestructible during your turn, allowing fight and damage spells to trigger its ability and force opponents to sacrifice noncreature permanents. The deck converts opponent creature deaths into overwhelming card draw and battlefield advantage using engines like Tergrid, God of Fright, Gisa, Glorious Resurrector, and Vraska, the Silencer. Victory is achieved through massive commander damage, powered up by trample enablers like Shadowspear and Power Fist, or lethal board wipes like Chandra's Ignition backed by extra combat steps from Grim Reaper's Sprint.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Archfiend of Depravity
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
• 1 Bugenhagen, Wise Elder
• 1 Bushwhack
• 1 Cactusfolk Sureshot
• 1 Cartouche of Strength
• 1 Chandra's Ignition
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contest of Claws
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Defiler of Souls
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 4 Forest
• 1 Gimli's Reckless Might
• 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
• 1 Glissa Sunslayer
• 1 Grim Reaper's Sprint
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Herd Heirloom
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hunter's Talent
• 1 Ignoble Hierarch
• 1 Infiltration Lens
• 1 Jecht, Reluctant Guardian // Braska's Final Aeon
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory
• 1 Kraven the Hunter
• 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Maarika, Brutal Gladiator
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mossfire Valley
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Neyith of the Dire Hunt
• 1 Nibelheim Aflame
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Pain for All
• 1 Power Fist
• 1 Prizefight
• 1 Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
• 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Rishkar's Expertise
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Seize the Spotlight
• 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Shard of the Void Dragon
• 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
• 1 The Great Henge
• 1 The Last Agni Kai
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Traverse the Outlands
• 1 Tyvar's Stand
• 1 Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Vraska, the Silencer
• 1 Waltz of Rage
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground