Zangief by Guruthom

Format: Commander

Commander: Maarika, Brutal Gladiator

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This Jund fight club uses Maarika, Brutal Gladiator as a must-be-blocked, indestructible-on-your-turn threat that turns any excess damage into a sacrifice of a noncreature, nonland permanent. You pair her with deathtouch (Basilisk Collar, Saryth), trample (Garruk's Uprising, Archetype of Aggression, Shadowspear) and 20+ fight spells to force favorable trades and trigger the sacrifice. Power doublers (Xenagos, Mr Orfeo, Halana and Alena) and extra combats (Anzrag, Karlach) convert that control into lethal commander and Mage Slayer damage. Neyith and Xenagos act as hidden commanders that keep cards and damage flowing when Maarika is taxed.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ancient Animus
• 1 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archetype of Aggression
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Bear Umbra
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Boxing Ring
• 1 Brash Taunter
• 1 Bugenhagen, Wise Elder
• 1 Bushwhack
• 1 Chandra's Ignition
• 1 Chevill, Bane of Monsters
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fiendlash
• 1 Fight Rigging
• 8 Forest
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 General Marhault Elsdragon
• 1 Gimli's Reckless Might
• 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
• 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1 Guardian Augmenter
• 1 Halana and Alena, Partners
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hunter's Bow
• 1 Hunter's Talent
• 1 Ignoble Hierarch
• 1 Infiltration Lens
• 1 Inscription of Abundance
• 1 Karlach, Fury of Avernus
• 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
• 1 Kessig Wolf Run
• 1 Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Maarika, Brutal Gladiator
• 1 Mage Slayer
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Neyith of the Dire Hunt
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Pain for All
• 1 Pit Fight
• 1 Power Fist
• 1 Prey Upon
• 1 Primal Might
• 1 Prizefight
• 1 Ram Through
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Rancor
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Rishkar's Expertise
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
• 1 Savage Lands
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Tail Swipe
• 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• 1 The Last Agni Kai
• 1 Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
• 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground