Creaturedamage to others by d3aN.

Format: Commander

Commander: Piru, the Volatile

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Mardu control build centered on damage reflection, commonly known as a Spite or Aikido strategy. Rather than racing the table with fast combos, the deck uses early acceleration and card engines like The One Ring and Trouble in Pairs to stabilize. It deploys damage-redirecting permanents including Boros Reckoner, Phyrexian Vindicator, and Brash Taunter to deter incoming attacks while threatening game-ending blowouts with symmetric board wipes like Blasphemous Act, Chain Reaction, and Arcbond. The primary proactive win condition revolves around Brash Taunter enchanted with Guilty Conscience, which generates a self-sustaining loop of damage triggers that eliminates all three opponents in a single turn. The deck's commander, Piru, the Volatile, serves as a high-cost tactical reset and massive lifegain engine when the board must be cleared, while a robust suite of defensive spells such as Silence and Boros Charm shields the key pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arcbond
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Barbed Servitor
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blazemire Verge
• 1 Blazing Sunsteel
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Boros Charm
• 1 Boros Reckoner
• 1 Boros Signet
• 1 Brash Taunter
• 1 Canyon Slough
• 1 Chain Reaction
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dawn's Truce
• 1 Deflecting Palm
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Earthquake
• 1 Elegant Parlor
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Fiendlash
• 1 Fire Covenant
• 1 Gideon's Sacrifice
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Guilty Conscience
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Ill-Tempered Loner // Howlpack Avenger
• 1 Imperial Seal
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Mogg Maniac
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Pariah
• 1 Pestilence
• 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1 Phyrexian Vindicator
• 1 Piru, the Volatile
• 4 Plains
• 1 Pyrohemia
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
• 1 Raucous Theater
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Repercussion
• 1 Reprieve
• 1 Rolling Earthquake
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Savai Triome
• 1 Screaming Nemesis
• 1 Shadowy Backstreet
• 1 Silence
• 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spectator Seating
• 1 Spiteful Banditry
• 1 Spitemare
• 1 Stinging Study
• 1 Stuffy Doll
• 1 Sunforger
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Conviction
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Teferi's Protection
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Trouble in Pairs
• 1 Truefire Captain
• 1 Untimely Malfunction
• 1 Urza's Saga
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Vault of the Archangel