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Mai, Scornful Striker
Oracle Text
First strike
Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, they lose 2 life.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Mai, Scornful Striker looks built to punish spell-heavy tables while pressuring life totals early, making her especially attractive in black-based tempo or proactive control shells. A 2/2 for two with first strike means she attacks and blocks cleanly against small creatures, but the real threat is the passive drain: every noncreature spell from either player costs 2 life, turning cantrips, removal, and combat tricks into painful decisions. That makes her excellent alongside cheap creatures and discard effects that keep the board simple while you chip away. In Commander or casual constructed, she pairs well with tax pieces and asymmetrical hate like effects that encourage creature-based play, and she gets scarier with lifegain denial or repeated bounce/cast loops that force opponents to bleed themselves out. Lore-wise, she reads as a razor-edged noble ally who thrives on pressure and precision rather than brute force.
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Character Background
Mai, Scornful Striker looks built to punish spell-heavy tables while pressuring life totals early, making her especially attractive in black-based tempo or proactive control shells. A 2/2 for two with first strike means she attacks and blocks cleanly against small creatures, but the real threat is the passive drain: every noncreature spell from either player costs 2 life, turning cantrips, removal, and combat tricks into painful decisions. That makes her excellent alongside cheap creatures and discard effects that keep the board simple while you chip away. In Commander or casual constructed, she pairs well with tax pieces and asymmetrical hate like effects that encourage creature-based play, and she gets scarier with lifegain denial or repeated bounce/cast loops that force opponents to bleed themselves out. Lore-wise, she reads as a razor-edged noble ally who thrives on pressure and precision rather than brute force.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-11 09:10:44 UTC