Mai, Scornful Striker punishes opponents for casting noncreature spells, making every instant, sorcery, or artifact they play cost them life, while the deck layers on additional passive life-drain effects that trigger off creatures entering the battlefield, lands being played, and card draw. The deck accelerates heavily into Swamp-based mana through a package of doublers and rituals, enabling large X-spell finishers like Exsanguinate or explosive reanimation to rebuild board states. The primary combo win condition is assembling Shard of the Nightbringer with Enduring Tenacity, which creates an infinite life-loss loop that immediately eliminates a target opponent.

Mai, Scornful Striker decklist

• Creeping Bloodsucker
• Polluted Bonds
• Blood Seeker
• Rug of Smothering
• Soot Imp
• Isolation Cell
• Fate Unraveler
• Scrawling Crawler
• Ayara, First of Locthwain
• Bontu's Monument
• Morbid Opportunist
• Opposition Agent
• Dread Presence
• Blood Artist
• Bolas's Citadel
• Shard of the Nightbringer
• Enduring Tenacity
• Vengeful Bloodwitch
• South Wind Avatar
• Nightshade Harvester
• 24× Swamp
• Marauding Blight-Priest
• Leechridden Swamp
• Witch's Cottage
• Reliquary Tower
• Pristine Talisman
• Bojuka Bog
• Realm of Koh
• Liliana of the Dark Realms
• Gutterbones
• Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• Mindcrank
• War Room
• Mortuary Mire
• Deserted Temple
• Skullclamp
• Exsanguinate
• Bubbling Muck
• Crypt Ghast
• Dark Ritual
• Gauntlet of Power
• Epic Downfall
• Barren Moor
• Castle Locthwain
• Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
• Radiant Fountain
• Sign in Blood
• Toxic Deluge
• Diabolic Tutor
• Feed the Swarm
• Victimize
• Night's Whisper
• Read the Bones
• Succumb to Temptation
• Villainous Wrath
• Reanimate
• Blood for Bones
• Stitch Together
• Dread Return
• Consuming Corruption
• Jet Medallion
• Defiler of Flesh
• Junji, the Midnight Sky
• K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
• Grave Researcher // Reanimate
• Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
• Lightning Greaves
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Champion's Helm
• Charcoal Diamond
• Infernal Idol
• Buried Alive
• Insatiable Avarice
• Psychogenic Probe
• Grievous Wound