Mairsil, Grix Army Knife

Commander / EDH Combo Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick UBR (Grixis)

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Land (35)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^{Flip  Meld}
• 4x Island
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (8)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Epiphany at the Drownyard
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Turnabout
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC

Artifact (26)

• 1x Amulet of Vigor
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Chimeric Staff
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall

Commander (1)

Creature (21)

• 1x AEtherling
• 1x Anger
• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Chainer, Dementia Master
• 1x Dreamborn Muse
• 1x Empress Galina
• 1x Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
• 1x Hateflayer
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Oona, Queen of the Fae
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Quicksilver Elemental
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Shauku, Endbringer
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Torchling
• 1x Tree of Perdition

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Leyline of Anticipation

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I like the idea of a wizard that gets stronger and closer to omnipotence with each new skill it learns. Mairsil is both flavorful and strong, two things that are rarely mixed on a single card.

How the Deck Wins:

It can win in a few different ways:

• By caging Quicksilver Elemental, Staff of Domination, and Gilded Lotus and infinitely doing all the things Staff of Domination does, with infinite colored mana left over for after you draw the whole deck.

• By caging Nevinyrral's Disk and using it with Mycosynth Lattice in play. Additionally, you can have Soul of New Phyrexia or AEtherling caged to save Mairsil and keep going after everything else is gone.

• By having both Chimeric Staff and Tree of Perdition caged, setting your opponents' life totals to 1, and then swinging at them. this can also be used as a combat trick when your opponents swing at each other. Admittedly, this takes a bit more setup than comboing off or blowing everything up.

How to Play It:

Keep an opening hand that consists of at least 3 lands and something to cage when you cast Mairsil. Don't make enemies too early (since the deck is relatively easy to hate out of a game), but take opportunities as they present themselves, especially when it comes to removing things. Use tutors wisely.

Notable Synergies:

• AEtherling is probably the single best thing to put a cage counter on since it allows Mairsil to flicker herself and acquire more abilities for a very low activation cost.

• Quicksilver Elemental allows you to activate Mairsil's abilities as many times per turn as you can pay , as long as the ability targets her every time.

• Chimeric Staff allows Mairsil to potentially hit someone for enough commander damage to kill them; can also be 0 if you need to recast her.

• Entomb is notoriously good. In this deck it can be used to put Anger or Stinkweed Imp in the graveyard, for haste and dredge respectively. It can also be used in response to Mairsil's triggered ability to search up whatever you want to put in the cage at that time.

• Mirage Mirror is incredibly versatile, both caged and uncaged. If you cage it, it allows Mairsil to dodge most forms of removal at instant speed, and can allow you to make intricate plays like turning her into a copy of Command Beacon and sacrificing her to put herself back into your hand from the command zone, effectively circumventing the commander tax in the mid to late game as long as the original Command Beacon stays in play.

• Basalt Monolith + Mesmeric Orb lets you infinitely mill yourself one card at a time, so you can get whatever you want out of Mairsil's trigger and have plenty of options after that.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.63
Tokens	Eldrazi Horror 3/2 C, Faerie Rogue 1/1 UB, Snake 1/1 B
Folders	Gimmick decks