It's also a steep cost without Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth out. All Rights Reserved. As such, if you simply play Mairsil and hope to make to around the table, you are likely in for a bad time. Galecaster Colossus: One of the most effective forms of removal in the deck and you can activate it even with summoning sickness. Mairsil, known as the Pretender, was a power-hungry wizard, who was a member of the Conclave of Mages during the post-Brothers' War Dark Age of Dominaria. Knacksaw Clique: A pretty standard Mairsil combo piece, as discussed above. Then, activate Sage of Hours's ability to take an extra turn by removing five +1/+1 counters from Mairsil. I have not finalized the deck list yet, so I am just going to list some general combos and architecture here. Commander / EDH* I write this series because I like saving money and if I enjoy something, I figure others do as well. TappedOut.js Blog Widget. All Rights Reserved. After you've got your mana and AEtherling in your hand or graveyard, cast Mairsil and cage him up. With untap effects and a few more abilities to put charge counters on Mairsil (Otherworld Atlas, Lux Cannon, and so forth), we can keep our extra turns going until we dig into a card that actually kills our opponents (infinite snake tokens from Orochi Hatchery, for example). Staff of Domination: Would mostly be used as an untap effect, which I already have plenty of. So unless you have the mana to tutor and play whatever it is you grabbed, tutoring and then doing nothing tends to make people nervous and they start to really direct their attention towards you. Terms of Use | An object may have two abilities printed on it such that one of them causes actions to be taken or objects or players to be affected and the other one directly refers to those actions, objects, or players. Repeat the loop. Caging up those cards can be more of a liability than a deterrent if you can't activate them until your next turn though. Manage Settings A repeatable board wipe that costs one mana to activate and is really hard to counter. [[Thousand-Year Elixir]] overrides his summoning . Infinite Mairsil ETBs. Wizards, reprint the untap symbol, please. Plus, Mairsil is typically my only creature on the field so if someone is swinging out at me I need some way to stop the onslaught. Combos Used In Mairsil, the Pretender (254 Combos) Submit your own combos and corrections to Commander Spellbook. Mairsil, the Pretender +Thousand-Year Elixir +Deadeye Navigator +Coveted Jewel +. These were some of the more difficult abilities to come by with our budget, as most of the efficient untappers are combo fodder, making them equal parts popular and expensive. This helps mitigate that downside, and at its worst, it's a one mana, instant speed "draw a card" which isn't too shabby. Arcane Signet and Talisman of Dominance are pretty standard rocks for these colors. Flying is also helpful if you need to block. Once you make it through the initial turn cycle after casting him, you should usually have enough mana to easily get you through the following turn cycles since there aren't many other cards that get cast other than counters and tutors. Go ahead and cast them to get some use out of them before you inevitably blow them up with Nevinyrral's Disk, then cage them up for repeated use later on or to get an infinite combo rolling. While the jury is still out on exactly how the interaction works, there seems to be consensus that a caged Quicksilver Elemental allows additional Mairsil activations, perhapsone additional activation per blue spent to activate the ability targeting himself, perhapsinfinite activations. With a way to flicker Mairsil, the downside of the -1/-1 counter is non-existent. Feels bad, man. That being said, its activated ability is great, giving us a way to clear out difficult blockers or beating our opponents in to a stupor with their own win condition. Edit. Sometimes he's great and I get to draw a bunch of cards in a turn cycle. Hateflayer is a perfectly good substitute for Spikeshot Elder. Feeds | This makes for all sorts of crazy infinite combos, and Quicksilver Elemental is thus one of the strongest cards in the deck.". Hex Parasite: Swapped it out for Boompile. In other words, any counter on any creature can be moved onto any other creature at will. Morphling: Probably your second-best protection in the deck. Complete Comment Tutorial! Hard for your opponent's to win when they've got nothing on the board. 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. This site is unaffiliated. Illusionist's Bracers: Could be useful but you'd need to reequip it each time you blink Mairsil. Each time we loop the Mairsil, we will pay 1 life and get one mana, after which with 5 mana, we will activate the Anthroplasm ability, put 5 counters on Mairsil, and then remove them with the Sage of Hours ability, and take an extra turn. 396 listings on TCGplayer for Mairsil, the Pretender - Magic: The Gathering - 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. For this we will need to have milled an [ [anger]] and have a mountain in play. Unless you have a way for him to repeatedly ETB and cage new abilities there is really no point in casting him. As above, we likely need to dig into a game-winning combo following this one. Infinite sacrifice triggers. Shocks and Fetches: Run 'em if you've got 'em. If there aren't any creatures in graveyards you can't activate it. I like to cage up my most important abilities to keep them safe and make them harder to interact with. Mairsil, the Pretender on the battlefield. However, we can also activate Quicksilver Elementals ability,targeting the commander itself. UBR (Grixis), PLEASE NOTE: There are a number of errors with this deck, I haven't had the time to sort it out. Outside of protection like hexproof or shroud, the best way to get around this is to be able to use him the turn he comes down, which is where haste comes in to play. Turn 3: Land, Mairsil, cage phantasm, activate ability, win. 4) Voltron, which is rare, equipping/enchant Mairsil while caging wonderful creatures like Morphling. Privacy statement | Please return to this window after you have logged in. If you have Anger in the yard, it means you can activate it the turn he comes down. Now that we have a better understanding of the rules involving Mairsil, let's look at our ultra budget Pretender deck. Is it the sort of deck that you'd enjoy piloting, or is it too finicky for your taste? It is not played in any current format. Quinn Miller (@Walking_Atlas) is a game developer and prolific Commander deckbuilder. The information presented on this site about Magic: The Gathering, both literal and graphical, is copyrighted by Wizards of the Coast. This led me to Mairsil's Gatherer page to check out the rulings associated with him: I assumed that this was how it worked, but I wanted to be sure, and thought it would be worth passing that information along. 'Tis a silly place. I'm sure more will come to mind later but these were the ones that stuck out to me the most. I knew within seconds that I had to, had to, theorycraft this budget deck for my next Low Market. Thassa, Deep-Dwelling: An indestructible Conjurer's Closet that costs less. Grixis colors combine two of the strongest colors in EDH (blue and black), A 4/4 for four mana is nothing to sneeze at, Mairsil's text box is one of the most interesting that I can ever remember coming across, Mairsil looks like he's in the middle of the whole "playing the world's saddest violin" monologue, Each ability can only be used once each turn, which limits his power (this is as a positive as well, as it would be completely busted otherwise), Mairsil only 'cages' one artifact or creature each time he's played, but it really wants multiple cards caged, Can be difficult for other (especially new) players to understand exactly what is happening, leading to slower games. Mairsil, The Jankful. 4/4. Anger: Get this guy into your graveyard ASAP. **Side note, you have to shuffle Mairsil into your library for this to work. That being said, it is great in this deck and if you want to power it up, this card definitely does the trick. It's only that expensive because it's on the Reserved List. Pay one black mana to give Undying to Mairsil 1x Essence Flux. Your mileage may vary. If your opponents' removal game is on fire then you might just be out of luck. Use some of the floating black to activate Endling's ability to give Undying to Mairsil, the Pretender. The first step off this combo is when reanimate Mairsil, to cage [[Hell's Caretaker]]. Get your mana out, tutor, then hit the gas. 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. Mairsil combos attempt. You're gonna be real sad when you have to activate Nevinyrral's Disk and now you're down three mana sources, though. Combo section will be completed over time. So if you target Mairsil with Quicksilver Elemental's ability, he will gain another instance of all of the activated abilities he has caged. The easiest I could see there would be something like [[gilded lotus]] and [[pili-pala]] for infinite mana, and win from there. Since I'm not running Labman combo, and it can't be used for filling your graveyard part of the way, Mirror-Mad got cut. Also a decent way to untap. Cinderhaze Wretch and Endling in exile with cage counters on them. Use Endling to giving Undying to Mairsil, the Pretender. She's good but nothing too special. Sometimes their reactions will be quick enough How could he have known the President was a skilled amateur dodgeball player? You can't do much with a full grip of cards but no engine so mana and a tutor are more important that anything else. This will require TappedOut.js included in your blog. Blink and flicker effects are an important part of the deck. Other people can view your private deck by using this url, Seems there are no cards in the Acquireboard. I'm not usually an advocate of infinite-turn combos, as they tend to conclude games in a way that frustrates other players, but this one is sufficiently roundabout that I'm comfortableputting it in. Guljin EDH. (1), Mairsil, il Pretendente +Cavallo Meccanico +Vassallo di Sangue +Letalmorfa +, Quale comandante il migliore per il mio mazzo. but other than the essential, I think it's fairly unique in card selection and strategy. With our mad course determined and a mad deck built, Mairsil's Charge Counters Combo clocks in at approximately $60.00 according to TCG Mid pricing. Mairsil can pretend to be many things, but he is not a clone and is definitely not named Morphling. At this point each 5 life you pay gets you an extra turn, or you can just wait until next turn and pay with regular mana, which ever seems safer in the situation. As I mentioned earlier, Mairsil actually comes equipped with halfway decent stats already. When this copy enters, we will cage up [ [Kozilek's . Combo Results: * Target opponent loses the game. Doing weird ability things. Legends of Runeterra e le sue rispettive propriet sono copyright di Riot Games. I knew that just having the one Infect card wasn't going to do it, but thankfully there are a few others that wanted to join in the party. When researching for this article, I read an article by EDHREC's own Robin Kass, who wrote a great article about Mairsil last July. A haste-enabler is also extremely desirable so that he can threaten his abilities as soon as he hits the board. Contact | Attention! The best way to do that to me seems to be to have [[Narcomoeba]] in our deck, then when we mill our deck it will come into play, we then unearth a [[fatestitcher]], use the ability to untap a land, and then unearth [[dregscape zombie]], after which we will sac all 3 to [[dread return]]. This site 2023 TappedOut.net, LLC If you do it at the end step, Mairsil won't return to the field until the next end step (a tough lesson to learn). This allows him to interact more directly with effects like Coretapper and Surge Node, which can only place charge counters on artifacts. The group is also VERY heavy on removal. There are two main win loops that can be done with Endling, that don't need haste, as you don't need to tap. Similar Deck Space Card Recommendations Commander Recommendations. Along the way, we will be protecting ourselves and our combo with some prison and pillow-fort type effects. available. This does essentially the same thing but with the added benefit of triggering his ETB effect as well as evading the removal spell. Mairsil, the Pretender has all activated abilities of all cards you own in exile with cage counters on them. Then activate Oona and target your opponents. A four-cast commander and a plethora of activated abilities, plus 3 other players' turns to survive before your lands untap again, so my land count is on the higher side. Each loop will net 1 U mana. So, i've been brewing with [[Mairsil, the Pretender]] recently, as i find the card very interesting. Tap Gilded Lotus for UUU. Attention! An odd-duck deck calls for some odd-duck tutors. Undying triggers and Mairsil, the Pretender comes back with a +1/+1 counter. Big Score: There are a lot of cards that can be grabbed out of the graveyard in this deck so the discard cost is negligible. Both creatures need to be caged for this one to work. This might be the second most important ability for Mairsil. Our Mairsil list contains a single Vehicle: Mobile Garrison. This. Eater of the Dead: Too situational. The goal of this primer is to explain the general idea of this Mairsil, the Pretender build, how to play it, and to explain the card selections/omissions, as well as any other miscellaneous information or advice. Grinning Ignus) on creatures as well. Can be used to match most metas. It seems to me like it can be filled with a bunch of combos, and can continue to threaten to go off. You can now import it in the MTG Arena client. Block then blink before damage, blink in response to being targeted. If you're playing 1v1 and it looks like commander damage might win you the game, use the "-lings" +1/-1 abilities to pump up Mairsil (only once per turn, per -ling) and then make him unblockable with this guy to get you to 21 faster. If Mairsil returns to the battlefield, it will see all of those exiled cards with cage counters on them. Trophy Mage finds us a notable combo piece, Magistrate's Scepter. Just kidding! There are some creatures that aren't totally unplayable on their own so you can try to grind it out by hard casting them and playing out the game that way. If that sounds fun, it's because it is. Consecrated Sphinx is just a staple card in any blue deck which becomes game winning if opponents cannot remove it. Once we have our deck in our graveyard we can go to the second step. That's one major benefit of being the most Voltron of Voltron commanders. Playing against a creature-heavy deck? You only have a few ways to do it and, with the exception of Tainted Strike, your opponents can see it coming from a mile away. The repeatable, targeted discard on this is probably a bit underrated, but we really want this because finding ways to untap Mairsil for free is not something we typically are able to do on a budget, and this does it for the low cost of making Mairsil a bit smaller. While we can cage stuff from our hand, it's comes with a pretty hefty price tag in the form of card disadvantage. Mairsil, the Pretender + Hateflayer + Tree of Perdition. Bonus points if the card you discard is Anger. Use Endling to giving Undying to Mairsil, the Pretender. Illustrated by Izzy. Mairsil's ability only works on the battlefield so things like Geralf's Masterpiece don't work unfortunately. These are just a few of the blink-ish cards that will allow us to get enough cage counters to hit the critical mass necessary to really be a threat. Red/black just isn't as useful as rocks that can tap for blue. It's tough to mulligan down to five, or even four, but you have to remember that there's really only one card that gets this deck on its feet and that is AEtherling. Deadeye Navigator: Costs too much to cast and gives me another creature I need to protect. The deck needs more card draw. Also costs more for it's blink effect than AEtherling and Argent Sphinx. 2022 by Cards Realm. More Combos: EDHREC. I post #DailyEDH content every day, normally about budget focused cards. He works as an ASL interpreter, enjoys running, and sitting on his porch reading, while simultaneously silently judging his neighbors. Have you taken this deck in strange direction? Knacksaw Clique/Prismatic Geoscope (or Gilded Lotus or Coveted Jewel): This combo requires Prismatic Geoscope to be able to tap for 3 mana and to also have Quicksilver Elemental caged to get the infinite activations. Sure, its frustrating and disappointing as hell when you get locked out of a game or don't manage to accomplish much before it ends but that can happen with literally any commander. This card is a bit overrated in most non-artifact-based commander decks, but the ability to make colored mana is huge. Mill all of your opponents out in one go. [[Ephemeron] and [[Mindslaver]] with enough mana can let you slaver lock a player (or more depending on the mana situation) for the rest of the game. Arcane Denial: Counter magic is important in any deck that runs blue. Se pretender envio pelo correio os portes ficam a cargo do comprador.Particular.EstadoUsado uma vez.MarcaParfois.TipoMalas.. vendo-a porque acaba por ter muitas divises para o que eu costumo transportar. Quicken: Tutors are great, but the best ones are usually sorcery speed. Shroud is perfectly fine in this deck since you're never actually "targeting" Mairsil with his abilities. Help | Command Beacon: Commander Tax adds up quick and Mairsil is a real big target for removal. 1x Rakdos Charm. [[Nevinyrral's disk]] and after activating using the exile from aetherling to dodge the effect or regeneration of [[skithiryx, the blight dragon]] to live through it. Then with haste, we will sacrifice the Caretaker, and reanimate [[Body Double]], copying Mairsil. Ideally, you'll have 4-5 mana sources (mostly blue) between lands and rocks, and a tutor to find AEtherling. Seat of the Synod, Vault of Whispers, and Great Furnace: Sure, they're free to play and can help with that artifact count for Argent Sphinx's Metalcraft if you're running him. Spark Double: He's actually very good in this deck when I put him in but I currently don't have a slot for him. The first step is to mill your entire deck. When building this deck, I found that a lot of the best win conditions for Mairsil were outside of our budget. 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