Get your mana out, tutor, then hit the gas. Hateflayer is a perfectly good substitute for Spikeshot Elder. Then with haste, we will sacrifice the Caretaker, and reanimate [ [Body Double]], copying Mairsil. Azami, Lady of Scrolls: She's been in and out of the deck a million times. 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. You can perform this same sort of loop, but replacing Endling with Reassembling Skeleton, where you use the BB to return Mairsil, the Pretender from the Graveyard. This deck is extremely mana hungry. Chaos Warp: Cheap and effective removal in red. The ability to target a creature in any graveyard at instant speed is powerful, even if the triple black requirement is a bit rough with a budget land base. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Discord Server | How about using Aetherling or Torchling and setting them to actual Lightning Bolt range instead? Mairsil, Pretending In Exile Commander / EDH Combo Control UBR (Grixis) TheIrishDeaf1. How Hipster is it Anyway? While looking through Mairsil's EDHREC page, I came across Pestilent Souleater. Exile all cards with Mairsil Mairsil only gets to put cage counters on cards when he enters the battlefield, and on his own, he's only going to enter the battlefield when being recast. If you have Anger in the yard, it means you can activate it the turn he comes down. Caging up deterrents can also help shift the crosshairs from you. There are two main win loops that can be done with Endling, that don't need haste, as you don't need to tap. (0). A Spikeshot Elder that has an easier-to-activate cost and also untaps is exactly the sort of creature this deck wants. When she isn't playing games, she's probably singing, or acting, or both. It also costs 4 to activate and you have to have creatures in hand. Exile [card](Mirror-Mad Phantasm) by activating the ability of [card](Mairsil, the Pretender). 1x Spell Crumple. https://cubecobra.com RSS for Node Sun, 15 Jan 2023 21:30:37 GMT Enough charge counters on Mairsil, and we can be chunking an opponent for ten or more damage per turn. Our Mairsil list contains a single Vehicle: Mobile Garrison. Back up plans would be [[exhume]], [[animate dead]] ect. Then cast Thoracle for the win. Magic the Gathering, FNM is TM and copyright Wizards of the Coast, Inc, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved. We will need to draw him into hand or graveyard with a [[demonic tutor]], [[entomb]], [[buried alive]] ect. Galecaster Colossus: One of the most effective forms of removal in the deck and you can activate it even with summoning sickness. Blur: A higher mana value than Essence Flux but it also comes with a card draw so I'm ok with that. Turn 1: Land, [[Sol ring]], [[fellwar stone]]. Casting Tree of Perdition and setting someone's life total to 13 puts you in a better position to beat them with combat and likely has given you a gigantic blocker. You'll likely be playing a lot of defense as you round up cage targets, so cards like Morphling, Galecaster Colossus, and Chaos Warp can help protect Mairsil and also remove bigger threats, at least temporarily. I run a lot of countermagic and protection to stop that from happening. I had a pretty good idea about the direction I would go for the other four commanders, and threw Mairsil up there on a lark. : Really never intend to use it as a land. Ethereal Usher and Netherborn Phalanx: Their transmute abilities allow them to fetch AEtherling and they were amazing budget tutors for me early on. Mairsil already exiles cards with his etb, and mimic vat can copy cards exiled by it ( <- assuming you mean Mairsil). Can be used to match most metas. If they kill the creature you put into play then Mairsil is never coming back. I'm good at this, trust me.). Mairsil's Cage Match. You may activate each of those abilities only once each turn. 15 - 0 Commons. Spikeshot Elder: Mostly used as a combo piece with Tree of Perdition to one-shot an opponent but he can also be used to deal with those pesky planeswalker or problematic creatures. 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 about six mana rocks that don't necessarily need caged right away. 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. Sort of. We now can exile any number of creatures and artifacts from graveyards and hands. First tapped-out deck i have created, any help is appreciated. This site is unaffiliated. A TappedOut decklist can be found here. After you've got your mana and AEtherling in your hand or graveyard, cast Mairsil and cage him up. You're gonna be real sad when you have to activate Nevinyrral's Disk and now you're down three mana sources, though. Commander Spellbook. 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. Date added: 1 hour: Last updated: 1 hour: Legality: This deck is Commander / EDH legal. Mairsil, the Pretender + Aetherling + Anger + Nevinyrral's Disk (662 decks) $0.79. Essence Flux: I realized that most of my countermagic was being used to protect Mairsil from targeted removal. You. Having to attack, pay 2, and still only get the card to the top of my library just wasn't working out the way I had hoped. You can customize the way you view decks on Moxfield.Check out your options Gotta get the tools out of the toolbox somehow. Instant evasion. [[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. Having more creatures in play before the dread return, or having caged up an [[Aetherling]] to blink your Mairsil in response to removal. This card is essentially a cheaper Aetherling that untaps instead of blinking. 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. After that we obviously cast Mairsil, exile and cage the phantasm (from here on just called cage), and then activate. Sometimes their reactions will be quick enough How could he have known the President was a skilled amateur dodgeball player? I typically try to cage up, Keeping a risky hand won't ever work out with this deck due to the very specific nature of how Mairsil works. This. Activated abilities contain a colon. Mairsil also needs as much mana open as possible each turn so sinking 4-6 mana into a Planeswalker isn't worth it in my experience. Grab Nevinyrral's Disk. TappedOut.js Blog Widget, Card draw There were a ton of votes on the last article, and I'll fully admit I was surprised about which commander won. Having built one concept for Mairsil, I'm still intrigued to see what other people create. With an open field, or the evasion granted by Rogue's Passage, we could even go straight for . You can use it as a political tool to help someone else take out a problematic player, or you can activate it, then untap Mairsil (we've got lots of options to make that happen), activate Aetherling's second ability, and swing for lethal. Combo-centric deck with lots of creative answers and multiple different lines. This does essentially the same thing but with the added benefit of triggering his ETB effect as well as evading the removal spell. 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 idea here is not to build him as a straight combo deck, made to win as fast . This combo is fairly safe, the easiest way to interrupt it is going to be while you are unearthing things to sac to dread return, or when you are activating anthroplasm ability to get counters. So, I may have buried the lede a bit. 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. Just blink Mairsil in response to any board wipe and you're good, including your own. A free flicker at the end of your turn that'll save you one blue mana for an Aetherling blink somewhere else or in response to a kill spell in response to Thassa's trigger. Contact | Obviously, I'm exaggerating a bit, but this was tough, for reasons I will address in a minute. If you have Anger in the yard, you can use Lotus Petal in place of Blood Vassal, as you'll be able to tap Mairsil, the Pretender as he has haste, to get the B mana for Endling's ability. 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. Bonus points if the card you discard is Anger. Bolt Bend: My usual playgroups are super heavy on targeted removal and this deck is their boogeyman. Again, discarding usually isn't a problem for this deck and two cards and two Treasures is a sweet deal. This will require TappedOut.js included in your blog. The latter grants a bunch of different activated abilities to Mairsil, the Pretender but we can only activate each of them once. That means we need reliable ways to trigger his enter the battlefield effect without him dying and going to the command zone. The untappers I run also have additional benefits. With an open field, or the evasion granted by Rogue's Passage, we could even go straight for the commander damage kill. As such, I am thinking of brewing up a deck for him that embraces my favorite meta-achetype, that of Combo-Control. While Mairsil adopts the Phantasm's name to be shuffled into the deck, the ability still searches for a card specifically named Mirror-mad Phantasm. + Guilded lotus + Horseshoe crab = infinite tutors? Repeat the loop. Also costs more for it's blink effect than AEtherling and Argent Sphinx. Turn 2: Land, [[Pentad prism]], entomb, burred alive, or demonic tutor finding Mirror-Mad phantasm. Whenever possible, it would behoove us to target cards in the graveyard, though there will certainly be situations that you absolutely must cage specific cards from hand. No spikes or cEDH decks (no disrespect there, it's just not our jam) but also no meme or theme decks. If we equip Leech Bonder with a Paradise Mantle, we have complete mobility of counters between creatures. Some of my favorite tutors, in fact: Trinket Mage, Trophy Mage, and Treasure Mage. 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). This card seems like the exact kind of party I want to invite all of my friends to. Text View. You can't just activate Mirror-Mad Phantasm's ability and then send Mairsil to the command zone. You likely have a huge target on your back if your early game went well. Since he did such a great job, I figured I'd let him explain how Quicksilver interacts with Mairsil: "This is a weird card, and it works with the commander in a very particular way. In practice, however, it was way too slow, caged or on its own. Anger: Get this guy into your graveyard ASAP. Just kidding! 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). Mairsil, the Pretender has all activated abilities of all cards you own in exile with cage counters on them. Exile all cards with Mairsil Pay one black mana to give Undying to Mairsil Sacrifice Mairsil to add one black mana Undying's ability will trigger, return Mairsil to the battlefield Remove a +1/+1 Counter from Mairsil to add one mana. Illustrated by Izzy. Add in a few cards to help boost his power and to give him some evasion, such as Volrath the Fallen, Torchling, and Cephalid Inkshrouder, and you have an actual win con on your hands. Red/black just isn't as useful as rocks that can tap for blue. This might mean moving charge counters from Coretapper or Chimeric Mass, or moving charge counters off Mairsil to rescue them before he dies. Mairsil can pretend to be many things, but he is not a clone and is definitely not named Morphling. This site 2023 TappedOut.net, LLC He's got the mother of all Voltron weaknesses. For your consideration, the first combo: Chimeric Mass and our Spikeshot friends, Spikeshot Elder and Spikeshot Goblin. Then with haste, we will sacrifice the Caretaker, and reanimate [[Body Double]], copying Mairsil. Terms of Use | Your Mirror-Mad is caged in exile and Mairsil doesn't count as Mirror-Mad when it is in the library, so poof! [[Coveted Jewel]] must be exiled with a cage counter on it from [[Mairsil, the Pretender]]'s ability. Fact or fiction pretty much just says draw 5, since most of the time you won't care what goes in the graveyard. I'd love to hear your opinions in the comment section! Trinket Mage provides access to the greatest number of options: Pyramid of the Pantheon for ramp or combo, Tormod's Crypt for graveyard hate, Paradise Mantle for the Leech Bonder interactions, Claws of Gix for a sacrifice outlet, and my personal favorite, Voyager Staff to flicker Mairsil. While we can cage stuff from our hand, it's comes with a pretty hefty price tag in the form of card disadvantage. Sometimes he's great and I get to draw a bunch of cards in a turn cycle. Infinite LTB. This might be the second most important ability for Mairsil. Knacksaw Clique: A pretty standard Mairsil combo piece, as discussed above. Eitherof these scenarios makes Quicksilver Elemental a must-have, especially for our combo focus. It's only that expensive because it's on the Reserved List. The rest are just basics and "duals" for grixis. Their reactions will be quick enough How could he have known the President was a skilled dodgeball! 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