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Mai, Scornful Striker

Mai, Scornful Striker

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Ally · {1}{B} · Black commander

First strike Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, they lose 2 life.
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What Mai, Scornful Striker actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Mai, Scornful Striker deck needs

Plays as punisher. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Mai, Scornful Striker deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Mai, Scornful Striker

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them

  1. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  2. Bloodchief Ascension1 mana
  3. Mindcrank2 mana
  4. The Meathook Massacre2 mana
  5. Kederekt Parasite1 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Scrawling Crawler3 mana
  8. Blood Seeker2 mana

A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break

  1. Grafdigger's Cage1 mana
  2. Opposition Agent3 mana
  3. Cursed Totem2 mana
  4. Defense Grid2 mana
  5. Winter Moon2 mana
  6. Crawlspace3 mana
  7. Pithing Needle1 mana
  8. Petrified Hamlet0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Endemic Plague4 mana
  8. The Meathook Massacre2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Black Market Connections3 mana
  3. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  4. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  5. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  2. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Commander's Plate1 mana
  5. Mithril Coat3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
  8. Brotherhood Regalia2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific

  1. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  2. Bontu's Monument3 mana
  3. Oketra's Monument3 mana
  4. Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose3 mana
  5. Nightscape Familiar2 mana
  6. Hazoret's Monument3 mana
  7. Rhonas's Monument3 mana
  8. Twinning Staff3 mana

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