Clingy Mairsil Silly Shenanigans

Commander / EDH* Attach Licid Theme/Gimmick UBR (Grixis) Voltron

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Land (31)

• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Drossforge Bridge
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Frostboil Snarl
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^{Flip  Meld}
• 3x Island
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Mistvault Bridge
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 1x Silverbluff Bridge
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Song-Mad Treachery  ^Flip
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Training Center
• 1x Treasure Vault
• 1x Xander's Lounge

Tutor (4)

• 1x Gamble
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Oriq Loremage
• 1x Unmarked Grave

Haste (3)

• 1x Blighted Bat
• 1x Chainer, Nightmare Adept
• 1x Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei

Removal (2)

• 1x Shenanigans
• 1x Unsubstantiate

Crew (1)

• 1x Smuggler's Copter

Churn (8)

• 1x Asmodeus the Archfiend
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Civilized Scholar  ^Flip
• 1x Fervent Mastery
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Jaxis, the Troublemaker
• 1x The Celestus

Copy (7)

• 1x Identity Thief
• 1x Inalla, Archmage Ritualist
• 1x Irenicus's Vile Duplication
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Strionic Resonator

Equip (6)

• 1x Bloodforged Battle-Axe
• 1x Bloodthirsty Blade
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Komainu Battle Armor
• 1x Ogre-Head Helm
• 1x Vorpal Sword

Attach (5)

• 1x Aura Graft
• 1x Dalakos, Crafter of Wonders
• 1x Fumble
• 1x Rootwater Matriarch
• 1x Valduk, Keeper of the Flame

Untap (4)

• 1x Cinderhaze Wretch
• 1x Fain, the Broker
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Torchling

Mirror (3)

• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Mizzium Transreliquat
• 1x Saheeli, Sublime Artificer

Steal (2)

• 1x Captivating Crew
• 1x Djinn of Infinite Deceits

Commander (1)

Enchant (7)

• 1x Corrupted Conscience
• 1x Fractured Loyalty
• 1x Glistening Oil
• 1x Hypnotic Siren
• 1x In Bolas's Clutches
• 1x Rune of Speed
• 1x Tamiyo's Compleation

Ramp (6)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Coveted Jewel
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Netherborn Altar
• 1x Prismatic Geoscope
• 1x Training Grounds

Licid (4)

• 1x Dominating Licid
• 1x Enraging Licid
• 1x Leeching Licid
• 1x Transmogrifying Licid

Flicker (3)

• 1x AEtherling
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Teferi's Time Twist

Vecna (3)

• 1x Eye of Vecna
• 1x Hand of Vecna
• 1x The Book of Vile Darkness

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Sideboard

Land (1)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse

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Maybeboard

Ramp (9)

• 1x Bog Witch
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Ebony Fly
• 1x Heartstone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Marshland Bloodcaster
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring

Haste (2)

• 1x Battlemage's Bracers
• 1x Footfall Crater

Other (1)

• 1x Leech Bonder

Attach (1)

• 1x Brass Squire

Copy (1)

• 1x Myr Propagator

Protection (1)

• 1x Rainbow Efreet

Churn (8)

• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Charmed Pendant
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Folio of Fancies
• 1x Mindshrieker
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Pendant of Prosperity
• 1x The Deck of Many Things

Crew (2)

• 1x Imposter Mech
• 1x Mechtitan Core

Mirror (2)

• 1x Lazav, the Multifarious
• 1x Shameless Charlatan

Licid (1)

• 1x Stinging Licid

Steal (1)

• 1x Olivia Voldaren

Flicker (4)

• 1x Argent Sphinx
• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Displace
• 1x Grinning Ignus

Equip (3)

• 1x Acquisition Octopus
• 1x Blade of the Oni
• 1x Lizard Blades

Untap (3)

• 1x Farmstead Gleaner
• 1x Honor-Worn Shaku
• 1x Trench Behemoth

Removal (2)

• 1x Ovinomancer
• 1x Xathrid Gorgon

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Step 1: Put a Licid in a cage

Step 2: Put Mirage Mirror in a cage

Step 3: Attach Mairsil to your opponent's creature

Step 4: ? ? ? ?

Step 5: Win

Mairsil is known as a broken combo commander, but they are capable of so much more. Primarily this deck is built around the Licid cycle and Mirage Mirror or Mizzium Transreliquat. These allow for a lot of silly stuff.

Mairsil, the Pretender + Transmogrifying Licid + Mirage Mirror + In Bolas's Clutches

While attached, use a mirror effect to make Mairsil copy an attachable permanent on board, and they remain an attached aura (layer 1 is copyable values, layer 4 is type-changing effects). Use control effects like In Bolas's Clutches with this to do stuff like remove an attacker from combat, or of course borrow the best creature on board.

Mairsil, the Pretender + Transmogrifying Licid + Vorpal Sword

Attach them to an unblocked attacker at instant speed and activate a caged Vorpal Sword's effect (it says "equipped" but really cares about something attached, see 301.5f) to knock someone out of the game.

Glistening Oil + Mairsil, the Pretender + Mirage Mirror

Bounce them to hand by becoming a copy of Glistening Oil and dying because they have nothing attached.

Mairsil, the Pretender + Eye of Vecna + Hand of Vecna + The Book of Vile Darkness + Saheeli, Sublime Artificer

Another weird package of note is Vecnatron. If Mairsil cages The Book of Vile Darkness, then activates and exiles itself a real Vecnatron piece and a card made into a Vecnatron copy by Saheeli, Sublime Artificer, the resulting Vecna token will get the triggered abilities of the printed cards, most notably caging a permanent when it enters. These slots are probably best replaced with lands or signets, but I'm trying them until the dream is dead.

Some standard Mairsil value pieces apply: churn through your deck, give things haste, find ways to copy Mairsil's trigger. It's resource intensive to get multiple effects in cages at the same time, after all. While like any Mairsil deck this is rather all in on Mairsil sticking around, unlike most Mairsil decks, this isn't as all in on putting everything into cages to synergize. Generally we want a Licid and a Mirror in a cage, but after that many effects are better on board. This means we can actually develop a board and have a backup plan for if Mairsil becomes unplayable, even if that backup plan isn't particularly great.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 20 - 1 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.14
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dragon Spirit 5/5 R, Eldrazi Horror 3/2 C, Elemental 3/1 R w/ Trample, haste, Inkling 2/1 WB, Servo 1/1 C, Treasure, Vecna, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Commando
Based on	Should I Pretend This Or That? copy burstingdecadence EDH