Stops your opponents from doing it though. You don't always have access to Nevinyrral's Disk or Boompile so you need to have other options. Nevinyrral's Disk. If we equip Leech Bonder with a Paradise Mantle, we have complete mobility of counters between creatures. Steps. All Rights Reserved. Deckcycle Deckcycle Feature Queue. The rest are just basics and "duals" for grixis. 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. The idea here is not to build him as a straight combo deck, made to win as fast . FF The Pretender. When you have logged in, click the Refresh Session button and then try again. UBR (Grixis). Activate the ability from [[Deadeye Navigator]] to bounce Mairsil. Many of our combo pieces are creatures, and we have multiple flavors of ramp, card advantage, and Mairsil-rebuying (e.g. This card is a bit overrated in most non-artifact-based commander decks, but the ability to make colored mana is huge. Obviously, I'm exaggerating a bit, but this was tough, for reasons I will address in a minute. Attention! Chaos Warp: Cheap and effective removal in red. Quicken: Tutors are great, but the best ones are usually sorcery speed. Horseshoe Crab: Just a not-as-good Morphling. Deadeye Navigator: Costs too much to cast and gives me another creature I need to protect. He lives in Joplin, MO with his wife. Rarity (main - side) 9 - 0 Mythic Rares. Complete Comment Tutorial! Flying is also helpful if you need to block. I like to cage up my most important abilities to keep them safe and make them harder to interact with. That's one major benefit of being the most Voltron of Voltron commanders. Red/black just isn't as useful as rocks that can tap for blue. With an open field, or the evasion granted by Rogue's Passage, we could even go straight for . Knacksaw Clique: A pretty standard Mairsil combo piece, as discussed above. Arcanis the Omnipotent: I'm very hot and cold with him. This site is unaffiliated. This grants Mairsil another instance of each activated ability on both of these cards, which of course havent been activated yet. Hopefully you can just discard him somehow but you can also cast him and chump block to get him to the yard. It's also useful for blocking bigger creatures and dodging removal. Articles and comments are user-submitted and do not represent official endorsements of this site. The most important activated abilities are either colored mana or tap abilities. I won't completely discount it because it is a strong effect that saves more than just your commander but I've never found that I have 5 extra mana just lying around that could be dumped into this ability. Grinning Ignus) on creatures as well. Top Combos. In Magic lore, the Dominarian wizard Mairsil drove mad a powerful mage named Ith. 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. Shauku, Endbringer: Plenty of removal already in the deck, and Minion of Leshrac can also hit lands. If we cage the Garrison (or any Vehicle, for that matter), and then activate the Crew ability that Mairsil now has, he becomes an artifact creature until end of turn, though his power and toughness will remain unchanged. You can now import it in the MTG Arena client. The second divides cards by function, in the same manner I did when designing the deck. Discord Server | Articles and comments are user-submitted and do not represent official endorsements of this site. No one wants to Time Walk themselves by spending a seven mana for a Gisela or a Praetor only to have it get Murdered by the mere act of turning Mairsil sideways. Most of the best possible turns with Mairsil somehow involve Gilded Lotus and because of its recent reprinting, it should be easy to find and acquire through trades. Another combo, which is more involved and requires Anger in the yard, or Mairsil, the Pretender to have been on board for a turn so we can tap to activate abilities. Just blink Mairsil in response to any board wipe and you're good, including your own. Complete Comment Tutorial! 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. I tend to blow the board up a ton and Commander's Sphere can at least get me a card draw before it goes to the yard. Copied to clipboard. So when you tap Mairsil to activate the Tree's ability, it will actually turn your opponent's life total to whatever Mairsil's toughness is, which is typically 4. The buttons above will open in a new window. As an added bonus, if you cage up Commander's Sphere, you can always sac Mairsil in response to a kill spell that you can't otherwise evade and get a draw from it. 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. Arcane Signet and Talisman of Dominance are pretty standard rocks for these colors. These cards are some of our most important as most activated abilities require tapping as part of the cost. 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. Ideally, you'll have 4-5 mana sources (mostly blue) between lands and rocks, and a tutor to find AEtherling. Legends of Runeterra and its respective properties are copyright Riot Games. Darksteel Ingot: An indestructible mana rock to survive multiple Nevinyrral's Disk and Boompile activations. More Combos: EDHREC. Prismatic Geoscope (and/or Gilded Lotus or Coveted Jewel) are usually caged up rather than cast, but you obviously can cast them as well. 2022 by Cards Realm. Now that we have a better understanding of the rules involving Mairsil, let's look at our ultra budget Pretender deck. Valakut Awakening Mairsil can pretend to be many things, but he is not a clone and is definitely not named Morphling. Our Mairsil list contains a single Vehicle: Mobile Garrison. Nevinyrral's Disk: One of the best cards in the deck. As a commander, Mairsil specializes in combo play, generally lending himself well to a toolbox of denial that quickly weaves . The first thing is something I've discussed in articles before this one, likethis article I wrote about Kurkesh, and that's the difference between triggered and activated abilities. Feeds | Feels bad, man. **Side note, you have to shuffle Mairsil into your library for this to work. Rhystic Study: I finally gave in and added it to this deck as well. Mirror-Mad Phantasm/Thassa's Oracle: This combo requires Mirror-Mad Phantasm to be caged and Thassa's Oracle in hand to be cast (hopefully with a counterspell or two in hand as well to protect this combo, otherwise you'll lose the game the next time you have to draw a card). Azami, Lady of Scrolls: She's been in and out of the deck a million times. Thassa, Deep-Dwelling: An indestructible Conjurer's Closet that costs less. Basalt Monolith: Colored mana is way more useful and since you can cage Gilded Lotus, Prismatic Geoscope, and/or Coveted Jewel the CMC and downsides don't matter which makes them strictly better than Basalt Monolith in this deck. All Rights Reserved. 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. Also, don't underestimate the power of Galecaster Colossus. Morphling: Probably your second-best protection in the deck. Ethereal Usher and Netherborn Phalanx: Their transmute abilities allow them to fetch AEtherling and they were amazing budget tutors for me early on. Your library gets milled. 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. Mairsil, the Pretender: Commander 2017 General This card has restrictions in the following formats: Format: Legality: Legacy Legal Vintage Legal Commander Legal x For more information regarding each format and play style modifications, visit the Banned / Restricted Lists for DCI . Mairsil, the Pretender +Mirror-Mad Phantasm +Dread Return +Thassa's Oracle +. 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. 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. With Aetherling and [[torchling]] caged up, you can redirect any spell to Mairsil, and then exile him in before it resolves to fizzle the spell. Mairsil, the Pretender. Aug. 18, 2017. Conjurer's Closet: Too mana-intensive to be so vulnerable to my own inevitable board wipes. then use 1U for Deep Analysis - win game. Even if you don't, "all nonland permanents" wipes are my jam so I run them when I can. Contact | Commander / EDH* This does essentially the same thing but with the added benefit of triggering his ETB effect as well as evading the removal spell. 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. available. Having built one concept for Mairsil, I'm still intrigued to see what other people create. However, we can also activate Quicksilver Elementals ability,targeting the commander itself. 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. I post #DailyEDH content every day, normally about budget focused cards. Thousand-Year Elixir: Too vulnerable to my own board wipes and caging it isn't super useful. Hard for your opponent's to win when they've got nothing on the board. You don't necessarily need to have Oona caged for this to work because she's not involved in the mana generation. Prerequisites. 1x Rakdos Charm. Block then blink before damage, blink in response to being targeted. Then with haste, we will sacrifice the Caretaker, and reanimate [[Body Double]], copying Mairsil. You have 1 U left in the mana pool and you can now loop again, as you can use all abilities again. 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. Doing weird ability things. This might be the second most important ability for Mairsil. 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 first step is to mill your entire deck. Instant evasion. Table View. Then with haste, we will sacrifice the Caretaker, and reanimate [ [Body Double]], copying Mairsil. TOP 10 DENNA MNAD. 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. Endling: The undying ability is what really shines here. 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. 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. 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