He lives in Joplin, MO with his wife. You then do shenanigans with [elNarcomeba[/el], Bloodghast, and Dread Return to win with Laboratory Maniac. 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. Infinite sacrifice triggers. Mairsil, the Pretender has all activated abilities of all cards you own in exile with cage counters on them. I wasn't aware that Khalil Mack was the Bull's mascot in his down time. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. chirz2792 EDH. Edit Live Edit. Quinn Miller (@Walking_Atlas) is a game developer and prolific Commander deckbuilder. Infinite Mairsil ETBs. The first is in the usual style, cards arranged by type. Now that we have a better understanding of the rules involving Mairsil, let's look at our ultra budget Pretender deck. Arcanis the Omnipotent: I'm very hot and cold with him. Magic the Gathering, FNM is TM and copyright Wizards of the Coast, Inc, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved. From a raw list of charge counters and related interactions, I pared down to a handful of potential game-ending combos. Some mana and a caged Scepter ensures one charge counter per turn. Asmodeus the Archfiend: He's really good in the cage but my playgroup is pretty fast so getting him online didn't usually happen and he was never the best target for tutoring. Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire: I have to admit, I thought this was going to be an auto-include when it was spoiled. Infinite death triggers. If there aren't any creatures in graveyards you can't activate it. You get the idea. It's been a great draw spell though. I also stumbled across a neat little interaction with him as a pseudo- Sneak Attack if you find yourself with Mairsil back in your hand. You have 1 U left in the mana pool and you can now loop again, as you can use all abilities again. For your consideration, the first combo: Chimeric Mass and our Spikeshot friends, Spikeshot Elder and Spikeshot Goblin. Use Endling to giving Undying to Mairsil, the Pretender. For this we will need to have milled an [ [anger]] and have a mountain in play. Use some of the floating black to activate Endling's ability to give Undying to Mairsil, the Pretender. If you want the Sparknotes of the rules, if it has ':' in it, it's an activated ability, if it has 'whenever' 'when' or 'at the beginning/end of [insert step here]' in it, it's triggered. Mairsil, the Pretender on the battlefield. Magic the Gathering, FNM is TM and copyright Wizards of the Coast, Inc, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved. Once you have your protection and deterrents caged, you can really start to focus on assembling your win conditions while you continue to disrupt, dismantle, and destroy your opponents' gameplans and boardstates. Night's Whisper is just a super efficient draw spell. I would put it back in the deck if I started running infinite mana combos again. 17 - 0 Uncommons. 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. In other words, any counter on any creature can be moved onto any other creature at will. As such, I am thinking of brewing up a deck for him that embraces my favorite meta-achetype, that of Combo-Control. Aug. 18, 2017. In this video we go in depth with Mairsil the pretender, a Fast combo deck, that can be both Voltron and Combo. Repeat for infinite mana and for infinite ETB. Commander / EDH 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. The first step off this combo is when reanimate Mairsil, to cage [[Hell's Caretaker]]. When this copy enters, we will cage up [ [Kozilek's . Cinderhaze Wretch and Endling in exile with cage counters on them. Aug. 19, 2017, Changing illegal cards for non This deck is extremely mana hungry. As such, I am thinking of brewing up a deck for him that embraces my favorite meta-achetype, that of Combo-Control. Depending on what else is on your side of the field you may get to slap something back down. 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. Until then, let's check out what we are working with. Flood of Tears: Devestation Tide with a twist, basically. This grants Mairsil another instance of each activated ability on both of these cards, which of course havent been activated yet. Infinite LTB. 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. This site 2023 TappedOut.net, LLC Here's where things get dicey. Articles and comments are user-submitted and do not represent official endorsements of this site. Pure combo version is just like other combo deck, you can assemble pieces very quickly and win early, but if you fail it's hard to come back, riskier in multiplayer game. Valakut Awakening I am likely removing Darksteel Plate & Knacksaw Clique for Consecrated Sphinx & Fact or Fiction. 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. All Rights Reserved. And until next we meet, enjoy your time browsing the Low Market. Arcane Signet and Talisman of Dominance are pretty standard rocks for these colors. All Mairsil, the Pretender Decks. So, i've been brewing with [[Mairsil, the Pretender]] recently, as i find the card very interesting. Other cards to note are the oft mentioned [[deadeye navigator]] and gilded lotus for infinite mana and activations. 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. Let Mairsil pay for his own blinks! Legends of Runeterra e le sue rispettive propriet sono copyright di Riot Games. If you have AEtherling imprinted too, it means you get to keep on board in the following manner: Activate Nevinyrral's Disk ability, then holding priority, use AEtherling's bounce ability. Mairsil naturally protects himself by keeping all his combo safe in exile. 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. Trophy Mage finds us a notable combo piece, Magistrate's Scepter. Commander's Sphere: Just recently replaced Chromatic Lantern with the Sphere. Tap for UUU (or UUR), untap for U (or R), activate Quicksilver Elemental for U, net one blue mana, repeat for infinite mana. Your library must contain the following cards (or cards with similar effects): [card](Dread Return), [card](Fatestitcher), [card](Narcomoeba) and [card . With as many artifacts as our deck contains, these search effects are useful even without being expressly built for (though I did add a few spicy options after I decided to include the Mages). Many of our combo pieces are creatures, and we have multiple flavors of ramp, card advantage, and Mairsil-rebuying (e.g. It is only looking for "a card" named Mirror-Mad Phantasm. Mairsil, the Pretender +Thousand-Year Elixir +Deadeye Navigator +Coveted Jewel +. I used to run Talisman of Indulgence until I got an Arcane Signet. There are a ton of tutors in this deck so once you find AEtherling you have plenty of ways to get win cons and interaction into your hand or graveyard. 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. This might mean moving charge counters from Coretapper or Chimeric Mass, or moving charge counters off Mairsil to rescue them before he dies. This annoying message will go away once you do. 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. I've always wanted to build a deck with every Tr Mage. 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. 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. You can play her after you've done the rest if the opportunity to do so presents itself. Shifty Doppelganger: Way too risky. Contact | 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 . The idea here is not to build him as a straight combo deck, made to win as fast as possible. Sometimes, there are cards that disrupt you or threaten to eliminate you from the game altogether. [[Coveted Jewel]] must be exiled with a cage counter on it from [[Mairsil, the Pretender]]'s ability. This allows him to interact more directly with effects like Coretapper and Surge Node, which can only place charge counters on artifacts. Hex Parasite: Swapped it out for Boompile. The latter grants a bunch of different activated abilities to Mairsil, the Pretender but we can only activate each of them once. 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 2UU is also a heavy price to pay to bounce him back to your hand. It also pairs incredibly well with Infect. Mairsil, the Pretender + Aetherling + Anger + Nevinyrral's Disk (662 decks) $0.79. How about using Aetherling or Torchling and setting them to actual Lightning Bolt range instead? While the rest of the game can go in any direction, your early game needs to revolve solely around finding. [[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. (1), (3), Magic the Gathering, FNM is TM and copyright Wizards of the Coast, Inc, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved. Step 3 is to combo off. Do you have an opinion on the matter? https://cubecobra.com RSS for Node Sun, 15 Jan 2023 21:30:37 GMT Darksteel is a dead card usually unless you have nev disk and honestly just not really needed. Commander / EDH* Shauku, Endbringer: Plenty of removal already in the deck, and Minion of Leshrac can also hit lands. Minion of Leshrac: Simple and versatile removal. It's only that expensive because it's on the Reserved List. Similar Deck Space Card Recommendations Commander Recommendations. Enough charge counters on Mairsil, and we can be chunking an opponent for ten or more damage per turn. To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below. Skyship Weatherlight Bane Alley Broker Gustha's Scepter If a card refers to itself. Along the way, we will be protecting ourselves and our combo with some prison and pillow-fort type effects. Solid deal IMO. Displaying decks 1 - 50 of 569 in total Date Deck Author Event Place MTGO Price Tabletop Price; 2023-01-15: Mairsil: tylerblake478 - -31 tix: . Shocks and Fetches: Run 'em if you've got 'em. They basically get one shot to counter him or it's unlikely he will leave the field involuntarily. The main goal of this deck is to combo off. Hello, r/EDH! I tore through card databases trying to find a direction, and eventually, I found one. 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. 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. Insidious Dreams: Honestly, it's a pretty bad tutor. As a commander, Mairsil specializes in combo play, generally lending himself well to a toolbox of denial that quickly weaves . Copied to clipboard. At some point you can just draw the rest of your Staff of Domination. Other times, I don't have haste or an untapper so I maybe get one use out of him. Steps. I knew within seconds that I had to, had to, theorycraft this budget deck for my next Low Market. That of Combo-Control Riot Games extremely mana hungry Dominance are pretty standard rocks these... 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