The Witcher Commander: Witchers by bobbysmith123

Format: Commander

Commander: Maarika, Brutal Gladiator

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Jund "fight-and-force-block" deck built around Maarika, Brutal Gladiator's excess-damage trigger. The plan is to make Maarika enormous, force opponents to block her (her own "must be blocked if able" plus Nemesis Mask, Lure, and Gift of the Deity), then convert her combat damage and fight spells into forced sacrifices of noncreature, nonland permanents. The deck leans on power-doubling effects (Xenagos, God of Revels, Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder, Unnatural Growth, Halana and Alena, Partners) to turn a single Chandra's Ignition or an extra-combat loop into a table kill. Secondary lines include Aggravated Assault with a mana engine for infinite combats, and Tergrid, God of Fright converting all those forced sacrifices into stolen permanents. It is a midrange combat deck that wins through overwhelming board presence and repeated sacrifice triggers rather than a compact combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aggravated Assault
• 1 Arcane Lighthouse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Asceticism
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Bear Umbra
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Bushwhack
• 1 Chandra's Ignition
• 1 Chevill, Bane of Monsters
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dryad's Revival
• 1 Epic Fight
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fall of the Hammer
• 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1 Fiery Emancipation
• 1 Flashback
• 1 Forbidden Orchard
• 5 Forest
• 1 General Marhault Elsdragon
• 1 Gift of the Deity
• 1 Gift of the Viper
• 1 Glamdring
• 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
• 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1 Halana and Alena, Partners
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hunter's Bow
• 1 Ignoble Hierarch
• 1 Infiltration Lens
• 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
• 1 Kessig Wolf Run
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Kusari-Gama
• 1 Lure
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Maarika, Brutal Gladiator
• 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Nazgûl Battle-Mace
• 1 Nemesis Mask
• 1 Neyith of the Dire Hunt
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Overprotect
• 1 Pain for All
• 1 Prizefight
• 1 Rancor
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhino's Rampage
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
• 1 Savage Lands
• 1 Savage Punch
• 1 Seize the Day
• 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
• 1 Temur Battle Rage
• 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
• 1 The Last Agni Kai
• 1 The Reaver Cleaver
• 1 Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Unnatural Growth
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Vigor
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground