Also, I enjoy the challenge! When Mairsil, the Pretender enters the battlefield, you may exile an artifact or creature card from your hand or graveyard and put a cage counter on it. chirz2792 EDH. Commander / EDH The real downside comes from needing to not have summoning sickness to activate the ability. Training Grounds: Mostly price, but also the value isn't worth the slot IMO, especially if youre gonna consistently lose it to your own board wipes. Remove a +1/+1 Counter from Mairsil to add one mana. We now can exile any number of creatures and artifacts from graveyards and hands. 'Tis a silly place. Cavern Harpy = pay 1 life bounce Mairsil to hand? Terms of Use | Lord Ith was the ruler of the Conclave until Mairsil usurped his power and imprisoned him below the Conclave's citadel, installing himself as the First Among the Equals. Hex Parasite: Swapped it out for Boompile. Thankfully, we have a bunch of ways to deal with anyone that's feeling froggy and wants to tango. Mairsil can also target himself on announcement, so you will always have a legal target, unless you happen to have already given him shroud with Morphling or something. Trophy Mage finds us a notable combo piece, Magistrate's Scepter. Instead, the idea is to use him to leverage value, control the board and then win at . Activate the [card](Mirror-Mad Phantasm)'s ability and put all your library in the graveyard, since you will not find a card with the same name. Our Mairsil list contains a single Vehicle: Mobile Garrison. You have 1 U left in the mana pool and you can now loop again, as you can use all abilities again. Relic of Legends: Solid as just a regular mana rock on the field but caged it guarantees you a blue mana as long as Mairsil is untapped, regardless of summoning sickness. Tap for UUU, untap with Knacksaw Clique for UU, activate Quicksilver Elemental for U, repeat. Combo Results: * Target opponent loses the game. I cannot emphasize enough how useful haste is due to so many abilities that require Mairsil to tap to activate. Manage Settings [[Coveted Jewel]] must be exiled with a cage counter on it from [[Mairsil, the Pretender]]'s ability. available. In this video we go in depth with Mairsil the pretender, a Fast combo deck, that can be both Voltron and Combo. Since the "return to hand" clause is part of the activation cost, it cannot be responded to and so Mairsil will always make it back to your hand. 1x Spell Crumple. Nevinyrral's Disk: One of the best cards in the deck. You can now import it in the MTG Arena client. Have you taken this deck in strange direction? Soul of New Phyrexia: Great in theory, but 5 mana is A LOT. Shocks and Fetches: Run 'em if you've got 'em. 2022 by Cards Realm. Conjurer's Closet: Too mana-intensive to be so vulnerable to my own inevitable board wipes. The ideal situation is to have AEtherling imprinted ASAP, as this gives us the ability to bounce Mairsil, the Pretender each turn to imprint a new card, it also makes it much harder to kill Mairsil, the Pretender. You can now import it in the MTG Arena client. Tree of perdition + Hateflayer + Mairsil = 3 mana 1 shot target player, quicksilver elemental + gilded lotus + Mairsil = infinite everything, Oona Queen of the fae + Razaketh + Mairsil = tutors? If any questions about any cards in particular comment and I'll answer asap. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. Discord Server | Minion of Leshrac: Simple and versatile removal. Each loop will net 1 U mana. With an open field, or the evasion granted by Rogue's Passage, we could even go straight for the commander damage kill. UBR (Grixis). Quinn Miller (@Walking_Atlas) is a game developer and prolific Commander deckbuilder. This deck works best at instant speed, hence the numerous mentions of how important haste is. When you have logged in, click the Session aktualisieren button and then try again. We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. <br>Mairsil, the Pretender has all activated abilities on all cards you own in exile with cage counters on them. Step 3 is to combo off. Please return to this window after you have logged in. I knew within seconds that I had to, had to, theorycraft this budget deck for my next Low Market. Contact | Legends of Runeterra e le sue rispettive propriet sono copyright di Riot Games. then use 1U for Deep Analysis - win game. Darksteel is a dead card usually unless you have nev disk and honestly just not really needed. Doing weird ability things. We would probably want the obvious assist cards like [[force of will]] and [[pact of negation]] for protection, hand disruption if we are 1v1, and other classic Grixis staples. Exile [card](Mirror-Mad Phantasm) by activating the ability of [card](Mairsil, the Pretender). Magic: The Gathering and its respective properties are copyright Wizards of the Coast. Sometimes their reactions will be quick enough How could he have known the President was a skilled amateur dodgeball player? Mairsil on the battlefield; All other cards exiled with cage counters on them; Mairsil does not have summoning sickness; Mairsil 's toughness is less than or equal to its power (1 magic symbol) (R magic symbol) (R magic symbol) avaliable Other people can view your private deck by using this url, Seems there are no cards in the Acquireboard. Your second goal is to determine what types of interaction you're going to need to survive this game. This card is essentially a cheaper Aetherling that untaps instead of blinking. Combo result Infinite ETB. It should be noted that there are a few exceptions to this, perhaps the most notable being Mirror-Mad Phantasm, which was in the first version of the deck I built. Hopefully you can just discard him somehow but you can also cast him and chump block to get him to the yard. (When I refer to a "caged" card in this article, I mean a card we exiled from our hand or graveyard with Mairsil's enter-the-battlefield ability, thereby giving it a cage counter and adding its abilities to our commander's.). Infinite Mairsil ETBs. These cards are some of our most important as most activated abilities require tapping as part of the cost. Contact | I'd love to hear your opinions in the comment section! Once you've created infinite mana and you've drawn your deck, you can dump it into Walking Ballista to be able to give counters and then remove them to ping the table. Along the way, we will be protecting ourselves and our combo with some prison and pillow-fort type effects. 1st combo: Mirror-Mad PhantasmCage Mirror-Mad Phantasm 1U - flip deck into grave yard. This will require TappedOut.js included in your blog. Because of this, your early game is going to look the same pretty much every game. Mairsil is the kind of commander that draws a lot of attention, simply because it is a known combo commander and people tend to hate on combo, perhaps disproportionately. Caging up deterrents can also help shift the crosshairs from you. Continue with Recommended Cookies, This entire deck works on playing mairsil, putting things on him and protecting and reusing him to set up one of like 3 combos. Your mileage may vary. Turn 2: Land, [[Pentad prism]], entomb, burred alive, or demonic tutor finding Mirror-Mad phantasm. The "reveal until you find a Mirror-Mad" has an "if" clause in front of it which only resolves if the card is shuffled in. Other people can view your private deck by using this url, Seems there are no cards in the Acquireboard. Finally: there's plain-and-simple infinite mana. It should never cost more than one red since it's in the deck to protect the 4/4 commander. Caging up those cards can be more of a liability than a deterrent if you can't activate them until your next turn though. Horseshoe Crab: Just a not-as-good Morphling. Tree of Perdition: A very strong, very simple win condition. Anger: Get this guy into your graveyard ASAP. Planeswalkers: CMC is typically too high and they are too slow. The first step off this combo is when reanimate Mairsil, to cage [ [Hell's Caretaker]]. I'm sure more will come to mind later but these were the ones that stuck out to me the most. Thassa, Deep-Dwelling: An indestructible Conjurer's Closet that costs less. DMCA requests | Entomb: A great tutor, but for cageable cards only. If they kill the creature you put into play then Mairsil is never coming back. use Dread Return for Laboratory Maniac. As such, if you simply play Mairsil and hope to make to around the table, you are likely in for a bad time. I run a lot of countermagic and protection to stop that from happening. Not only can you save Mairsil, you can hurt the guy who tried to hurt you. Deckcycle Deckcycle Feature Queue. The game where the rules are made up, and the points don't matter, Spikeshot Elder gives us a way to kill our opponents with Mairsil without risking the red zone. The main goal of this deck is to combo off. Galecaster Colossus: One of the most effective forms of removal in the deck and you can activate it even with summoning sickness. Repeat the process for infinite mana. Is it the sort of deck that you'd enjoy piloting, or is it too finicky for your taste? One of the most central cards to efficient Mairsil-ability-activation is Quicksilver Elemental. Aetherling. Commander / EDH* I like it because it doesn't eat up blue mana, spells that are coming my way are usually removal so it's always fun to "no u" an opponent, and the potential to also get to copy the spell is pretty tight. The combos are bellow. This will require TappedOut.js included in your blog. Repeat the process for infinite mana.. Combo Mairsil, the Pretender +Workhorse +Blood Vassal +Endling + Magic: the Gathering MTG A repeatable board wipe that costs one mana to activate and is really hard to counter. A one-mana untap ability is extremely useful. Combo result Infinite ETB. A resilient haste-enabler is super valuable. Oona, Queen of the Fae/Infinite Mana: This combo requires Quicksilver Elemental, a 3-mana rock, and a one-mana untapper (Morphling; Torchling if Prismatic Geoscope can tap for all three colors since he requires red to untap and Quicksilver and Oona require blue). 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