Mai, Scornful Striker

Mai, Scornful Striker Commander Deck

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.

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