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Maarika the Most Brutal
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Est deck cost: $742.09
Salt sum: 40.41
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Commander

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Maarika, Brutal Gladiator

Maarika, Brutal Gladiator must be blocked if able. As long as it's your turn, Maarika has indestructible. Whenever Maarika deals damage to a creature, if that creature was dealt excess damage this turn, that creature's controller sacrifices a noncreature, nonland permanent.

Creature
Maarika, Brutal Gladiator (slx) 15

Commander

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Land

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Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (rtr) 238
Cinder Glade

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Cinder Glade (c19) 236
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (afc) 230
Deathcap Glade

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Deathcap Glade (dbl) 528
Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (xln) 252
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (bro) 287
Haunted Ridge

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Haunted Ridge (dbl) 263
Kessig Wolf Run

{T}: Add {C}. {X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Land
Kessig Wolf Run (ncc) 411
Luxury Suite

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (bro) 284
Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Overgrown Tomb (rtr) 243
Rockfall Vale

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Rockfall Vale (mid) 266
Rootbound Crag

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Rootbound Crag (m13) 228
Spire Garden

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Spire Garden (clb) 361
Stomping Ground

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Stomping Ground (unf) 280
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (bro) 282
Undergrowth Stadium

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmr) 359
Woodland Cemetery

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dmr) 401
Ziatora's Proving Ground

({T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Ziatora's Proving Ground (snc) 261

Land

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Artifact

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Loxodon Warhammer

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink. Equip {3}

Artifact
Loxodon Warhammer (sld) 1034
Nim Deathmantle

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and is a black Zombie. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {4}. If you do, return that card to the battlefield and attach this Equipment to it. Equip {4}

Artifact
Nim Deathmantle (som) 188
Resurrection Orb

Equipped creature has lifelink. Whenever equipped creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Resurrection Orb (40k) 165★
Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (chk) 268

Artifact

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Sorcery

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Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (ncc) 264
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (m11) 168
Genesis Storm

When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland permanent card. You may put that card onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Genesis Storm (c18) 30
Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Kodama's Reach (mma) 151
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (dmr) 170
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (9ed) 263★
Spinning Wheel Kick

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each of X target creatures and/or planeswalkers.

Sorcery
Spinning Wheel Kick (neo) 207
Titania's Command

Choose two — • Exile target player's graveyard. You gain 1 life for each card exiled this way. • Search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. • Create two 2/2 green Bear creature tokens. • Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Sorcery
Titania's Command (bro) 194
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (cmr) 157

Sorcery

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Creature

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Avenger of Zendikar

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.

Creature
Avenger of Zendikar (j22) 629
Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Creature
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (dmu) 84
Bramble Sovereign

Whenever another nontoken creature enters, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, that creature's controller creates a token that's a copy of that creature.

Creature
Bramble Sovereign (bbd) 65
Combustible Gearhulk

First strike When this creature enters, target opponent may have you draw three cards. If the player doesn't, you mill three cards, then this creature deals damage to that player equal to the total mana value of those cards.

Creature Artifact
Combustible Gearhulk (kld) 112
Earthshaker Giant

Trample When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

Creature
Earthshaker Giant (gn2) 5
Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eternal Witness (2x2) 368
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (ths) 89
Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creature sources. Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on Gwenna and untap it.

Creature
Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea (bro) 185
Juri, Master of the Revue

Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Juri. When Juri dies, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Creature
Juri, Master of the Revue (cmr) 282
Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able. Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kardur, Doomscourge (scd) 5
Kodama of the East Tree

Reach Whenever another permanent you control enters, if it wasn't put onto the battlefield with this ability, you may put a permanent card with equal or lesser mana value from your hand onto the battlefield. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Kodama of the East Tree (cmr) 582
Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying When Kokusho dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Creature
Kokusho, the Evening Star (chk) 122
Manglehorn

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact. Artifacts your opponents control enter tapped.

Creature
Manglehorn (akh) 175
Marionette Master

Fabricate 3 (When this creature enters, put three +1/+1 counters on it or create three 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.) Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to this creature's power.

Creature
Marionette Master (afc) 102
Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Creature
Massacre Wurm (mbs) 46
Myr Battlesphere

When this creature enters, create four 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens. Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, this creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.

Creature Artifact
Myr Battlesphere (som) 180
Nadier's Nightblade

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Nadier's Nightblade (cmr) 136
Noxious Gearhulk

Menace When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact
Noxious Gearhulk (kld) 96
Nylea, Keen-Eyed

Indestructible As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {2}{G}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, you may put it into your graveyard.

Creature Enchantment
Nylea, Keen-Eyed (thb) 185
Nyxbloom Ancient

Trample If you tap a permanent for mana, it produces three times as much of that mana instead.

Creature Enchantment
Nyxbloom Ancient (thb) 190
Paladin of Predation

Toxic 6 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get six poison counters.) This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

Creature
Paladin of Predation (one) 178
Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Pitiless Plunderer (rix) 81
Professional Face-Breaker

Menace Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. Sacrifice a Treasure: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.

Creature
Professional Face-Breaker (snc) 426
Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Reclamation Sage (cmr) 434
Rootpath Purifier

Lands you control and land cards in your library are basic.

Creature
Rootpath Purifier (brc) 44
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw X cards, where X is that creature's power. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar (clb) 499
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (brc) 161
Soul of the Harvest

Trample Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, you may draw a card.

Creature
Soul of the Harvest (avr) 195
Tergrid, God of Fright

Creature
Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112
Verdurous Gearhulk

Trample When this creature enters, distribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control.

Creature Artifact
Verdurous Gearhulk (kld) 172
Wandering Archaic

Creature
Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands (stx) 6Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands (stx) 6
Woodfall Primus

Trample When this creature enters, destroy target noncreature permanent. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Woodfall Primus (mma) 174
Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Creature Artifact
Wurmcoil Engine (psom) 223★
Ziatora's Envoy

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at the top card of your library. You may play a land from the top of your library or cast a spell with mana value less than or equal to the damage dealt from the top of your library without paying its mana cost. If you don't, put that card into your hand. Blitz {2}{B}{R}{G}

Creature
Ziatora's Envoy (snc) 232
Ziatora, the Incinerator

Flying At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, Ziatora deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target and you create three Treasure tokens.

Creature
Ziatora, the Incinerator (snc) 339

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Enchantment

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Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Black Market (jmp) 204
Brazen Cannonade

Whenever an attacking creature you control dies, this enchantment deals 2 damage to each opponent. Raid — At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, if you attacked this turn, exile the top card of your library. Until end of combat on your next turn, you may play that card.

Enchantment
Brazen Cannonade (j22) 31
Grave Betrayal

Whenever a creature you don't control dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with an additional +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Enchantment
Grave Betrayal (rtr) 67
Lurking Predators

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, you may put that card on the bottom of your library.

Enchantment
Lurking Predators (m10) 190
Necrogen Communion

Enchant creature you control Enchanted creature has toxic 2. (Players dealt combat damage by it also get two poison counters.) When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
Necrogen Communion (one) 99
Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (ons) 160
Palace Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Dragons — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Palace Siege (c17) 119
Unquenchable Fury

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature attacks, it deals X damage to defending player, where X is the number of cards in their hand." When this Aura is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return it to your hand.

Enchantment
Unquenchable Fury (nec) 63

Enchantment

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Instant

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Fake Your Own Death

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Fake Your Own Death (snc) 79
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (m21) 188
Jaheira's Respite

Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of creatures attacking you, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant
Jaheira's Respite (clb) 238
Makeshift Mannequin

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a mannequin counter on it. For as long as that creature has a mannequin counter on it, it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Instant
Makeshift Mannequin (lrw) 124
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Saw in Half

Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.

Instant
Saw in Half (unf) 88

Instant

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