This makes for all sorts of crazy infinite combos, and Quicksilver Elemental is thus one of the strongest cards in the deck.". [[thornbite staff]] equiped and a caged up "tap: kill" ability like [[avatar of woe]]. It's also a steep cost without Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth out. Anthroplasm/Sage of Hours: Probably the simplest and most powerful combo this commander can pull off. This is a slow, stax deck. Mairsil, the Pretender on the battlefield. I and others have found a few combos with Mairsil, but this seems like the strongest and fastest, and requires only mana and for us to get one card in graveyard. Can be used to match most metas. You'll have unlimited activations of her ability as well as any others you have caged due to going infinite with mana. chirz2792 EDH. The easiest I could see there would be something like [[gilded lotus]] and [[pili-pala]] for infinite mana, and win from there. quicksilver elemental + gilded lotus + Mairsil = infinite everything Having Nevinyrral's Disk imprinted is usually enough to seal the game away from your opponents as it means you've always got access to a board wipe of all your opponents non-land, non-planeswalker permanents. She's good but nothing too special. 1st combo: Mirror-Mad Phantasm Cage Mirror-Mad Phantasm 1U - flip deck into grave yard. Arcane Denial: Counter magic is important in any deck that runs blue. Infinite LTB. Articles and comments are user-submitted and do not represent official endorsements of this site. Turn 2: Land, [[Pentad prism]], entomb, burred alive, or demonic tutor finding Mirror-Mad phantasm. Phyrexian Altar on the battlefield or in exile with a cage counter. FF The Pretender. 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. These abilities can be broken down into a few categories. 2+ years of playing this deck has taught me that casting Mairsil earlier gives him a better chance of surviving and winning. Help | As I mentioned earlier, Mairsil actually comes equipped with halfway decent stats already. A couple general notes for people. Have you taken this deck in strange direction? 1x Essence Flux. You can now import it in the MTG Arena client. A one-mana untap ability is extremely useful. Sometimes, there are cards that disrupt you or threaten to eliminate you from the game altogether. On a scale from 'peanut butter and chocolate' to 'Swiss chard and anything,' it scores approximately a 'Pizza Rolls and ranch.'. 1x Silumgar's Command. 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. I played with it for quite some time but the instant speed did not make up for having to pitch cards in addition and the cards going to the top of the library instead of to hand. Legends of Runeterra e le sue rispettive propriet sono copyright di Riot Games. (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.). Mairsil, the Pretender This card is just such a flavor win and looks like a great value engine too. Players are usually gonna leave you alone if you have a Nevinyrral's Disk Disk or Boompile caged and ready to pop in response to their shenanigans. Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded: An indestructible haste-enabler. [[Coveted Jewel]] must be exiled with a cage counter on it from [[Mairsil, the Pretender]]'s ability. Displacer Kitten: Turn all your spells into flicker spells! 1st combo: Mirror-Mad PhantasmCage Mirror-Mad Phantasm 1U - flip deck into grave yard. When this copy enters, we will cage up [ [Kozilek's . This annoying message will go away once you do. Magic: The Gathering and its respective properties are copyright Wizards of the Coast. The untappers I run also have additional benefits. 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. Card Kingdom $775 - 797 . Horseshoe Crab: Just a not-as-good Morphling. With a way to flicker Mairsil, the downside of the -1/-1 counter is non-existent. If you are interested in seeing more EDH content from me, follow me on Twitter at @BrewsMTG. If you cage them early but can't use them all you've accomplished is painting a target on yourself. Blue mana is the most important so try to keep as much of it open as possible for AEtherling activations and counter magic. Deckcycle Deckcycle Feature Queue. As a commander, Mairsil specializes in combo play, generally lending himself well to a toolbox of denial that quickly weaves . 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. A haste-enabler is also extremely desirable so that he can threaten his abilities as soon as he hits the board. 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. Prerequisites. Date added: 1 hour: Last updated: 1 hour: Legality: This deck is Commander / EDH legal. He combos especially well with Cavern Harpy if you find yourself without AEtherling in the cage as well. Playing against combo? First tapped-out deck i have created, any help is appreciated. This site is unaffiliated. For this we will need to have milled an [[anger]] and have a mountain in play. This entire deck works on playing mairsil, putting things on him and protecting and reusing him to set up one of like 3 combos. Shroud is perfectly fine in this deck since you're never actually "targeting" Mairsil with his abilities. Each Quicksilver Elemental activation compounds on the last, increasing the activations exponentially. Morphling: Probably your second-best protection in the deck. It took me a long time to accept this but when I did, my play experience improved drastically! Combo section will be completed over time. Mairsil, The Jankful. Attention! Articles and comments are user-submitted and do not represent official endorsements of this site. 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. Thousand-Year Elixir: Too vulnerable to my own board wipes and caging it isn't super useful. Activate the ability from [[Deadeye Navigator]] to bounce Mairsil. Blur: A higher mana value than Essence Flux but it also comes with a card draw so I'm ok with that. They usually get taken out due to meta adjustments but are still really good in general for this deck. Then EOT, Mairsil, the Pretender will come back into play. As it's hard to get a quick combo win with this deck as it takes a bit of setting up. Enough charge counters on Mairsil, and we can be chunking an opponent for ten or more damage per turn. Grab Nevinyrral's Disk. Ith's cage was created by Barl. 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. Repeat the process for infinite mana. TappedOut.js Blog Widget. Grinning Ignus) on creatures as well. 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. I have not finalized the deck list yet, so I am just going to list some general combos and architecture here. Remove the counter with Walking Ballista to ping an opponent. The first is in the usual style, cards arranged by type. Full Combo on Expert difficulty in Beat Saber for the song "The Pretender" by Foo Fighters.Played and recorded on the Oculus/Meta Quest 2 using Meta Quest Pr. 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. , mainly in the following archetypes: Currently the card is not used in any archetype. 1x Spell Crumple. It also fetches Umbral Mantle, one of the most powerful effects to untap Mairsil (by equipping it to him, not by caging it). Block then blink before damage, blink in response to being targeted. Caging up those cards can be more of a liability than a deterrent if you can't activate them until your next turn though. Even if you don't, "all nonland permanents" wipes are my jam so I run them when I can. Copied to clipboard. Feeds | Unexpected Windfall: Some redundancy with a slightly more difficult to cast version of Big Score. 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. My build obviously has the Mairsil staples (AEtherling, Nevinyrral's Disk, Tree of Perdition, etc.) Mairsil, the Pretender is the thorn in the side of most any deck. This site 2023 TappedOut.net, LLC I like to cage up my most important abilities to keep them safe and make them harder to interact with. Mairsil, the Pretender. Other times, I don't have haste or an untapper so I maybe get one use out of him. I am likely removing Darksteel Plate & Knacksaw Clique for Consecrated Sphinx & Fact or Fiction. What do you guys think? Use Endling to giving Undying to Mairsil, the Pretender. This site is unaffiliated. This is a slow, stax deck. Contact | We now can exile any number of creatures and artifacts from graveyards and hands. Staff of Domination: Would mostly be used as an untap effect, which I already have plenty of. UBR (Grixis). Legends of Runeterra and its respective properties are copyright Riot Games. Caging up deterrents can also help shift the crosshairs from you. Then cast Thoracle for the win. Other than the above, we have some ramp, which is something that every Commander deck needs, a few ways to draw cards, and some mill cards to help us fill our graveyard with cage fodder. Knacksaw Clique is part of an infinite combo however the Hateflayer does its job better and faster. All Rights Reserved. They basically get one shot to counter him or it's unlikely he will leave the field involuntarily. Prerequisites. Mairsil, the Pretender has been played in more than 16 decks in the last year and is a key card in more than 14 combos (you can check them in the Mairsil, the Pretender combos section). Not what I think the "usual" theme will be: no no, our theme. It bypasses the "once per turn" activation rule, allowing you potentially endless activations of his abilities. Mairsil combos attempt. Help | This annoying message will go away once you do. After that we obviously cast Mairsil, exile and cage the phantasm (from here on just called cage), and then activate. Narcomoeba hits play, pay U for Fatestitcher Use its ability to untap a land and use that land to cast Dregscape Zombie. During this deck's first iteration, I found I didn't really have a win condition. Endling: The undying ability is what really shines here. Similar Deck Space Card Recommendations Commander Recommendations. These are some of our better haste enablers and I would be happy to have any of these in any Mairsil game. I'd love to hear your opinions in the comment section! Mairsil, the Pretender + Aetherling + Anger + Nevinyrral's Disk. Soul of New Phyrexia: Great in theory, but 5 mana is A LOT. Terms of Use | 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. 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. Other people can view your private deck by using this url, Seems there are no cards in the Acquireboard. Articles and comments are user-submitted and do not represent official endorsements of this site. (1), What do you think of the deck? (1), Getting two treasures in addition to two cards is a pretty sweet deal. In Magic lore, the Dominarian wizard Mairsil drove mad a powerful mage named Ith. 15 - 0 Commons. Commander / EDH 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]]. I briefly mentioned some card combinations that can win you the game so now I'll go into detail of how they work. Commander Spellbook. Attention! Rinse and repeat until you find a wincon or your opponents scoop to an infinite turns loop. available. Turn 3: Land, Mairsil, cage phantasm, activate ability, win. available. Use Blood Vassal to sac Mairsil, the Pretender, which gives you BB mana. Wyll's Reversal: A pretty solid redirect IMO. Nevinyrral's Disk: One of the best cards in the deck. 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 Go into detail of how they work and we can be chunking an opponent for ten or more damage turn. Anthroplasm/Sage of Hours: Probably the simplest and most powerful combo this commander can pull off, and then.... 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