Maarika by Blazko

Format: Commander

Commander: Maarika, Brutal Gladiator

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Maarika is a must-block, indestructible-on-your-turn engine that converts excess combat and fight damage into forced sacrifice of noncreature, nonland permanents. The deck is built to push her power through Xenagos and Mr. Orfeo while Rancor, Temur Battle Rage, and Embercleave deliver the 21-damage commander kill; Xenagos is effectively the hidden commander because his double-power trigger sets the kill math. Secondary paths are big Jund beaters like Ghalta, Godo extra combats, and draw-on-damage engines. Progress is combat-centric and removal-laden, using fight spells to trigger Maarika, with heavy protection to survive the swing turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alpha Authority
  • 1 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbond
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Bushwhack
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Eldrazi Conscription
  • 1 Embercleave
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fiendlash
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Godo, Bandit Warlord
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Halana and Alena, Partners
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Infiltration Lens
  • 1 Inscription of Abundance
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Keen Sense
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Klauth's Will
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Maarika, Brutal Gladiator
  • 1 Mandate of Abaddon
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Neyith of the Dire Hunt
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Power Fist
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Rancor
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Fire and Ice
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Temur Battle Rage
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Traverse the Outlands
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Ulvenwald Tracker
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Vraska Joins Up
  • 1 Vraska, the Silencer
  • 1 Wrap in Vigor
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels