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Mairsil, the Pretender EDH

Commander / EDH* UBR (Grixis)

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Mairsil's Cage

To best take advantage of Mairsil, you wanna load his cage up full of goodies. The best ways to get more bodies in your cage are:

  1. Flicker Mairsil (Conjurer's Closet, etc.)

  2. Bounce Mairsil (Grinning Ignus, Riptide Laboratory, etc.)

  3. Clone Mairsil, keeping your original around. You still get the ETB cage effect!

  4. Just let Mairsil die!

Early Cage Targets

You've got 2 big options for your first cage targets: flicker cards or big mana generation. Grabbing an Aetherling or anything similar lets you start building up abilities quickly, which you can start abusing for massive value. Your other options include caging a Gilded Lotus or Patron of the Moon to ramp incredibly hard in colors that aren't particularly good at ramping. With loads of mana, you can begin your other nonsense early.

Which Types of Cards Go In This Deck?

Obviously, you want creatures or artifacts with activated abilities. Where Mairsil really shines, however, is in caging cards with big downsides but powerful activated abilities, such as Dralnu, Lich Lord. Look for cards with incredible abilities that you can negate the downsides of!

When it comes to draw and mill, cards in hand are worth just as much as cards in the 'yard when it comes to Mairsil's ability; finding the most mana efficient way to get a card into either zone is what you're looking for. Entomb throwing a card into the graveyard is just as good as putting it into your hand!

Win Conditions

You don't want to cage your big winners early on, or you risk painting a huge target on your face. When you're ready, however, you can start loading Mairsil up with abilities such as Helm of Possession, Memnarch, Heartless Hidetsugu, or Geth, Lord of the Vault. Each game plays out vastly differently from the last; make good use of what you've drawn into and create your own lines to victory!

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Date added 7 years
Last updated 2 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

10 - 0 Mythic Rares

57 - 0 Rares

14 - 0 Uncommons

5 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.80
Tokens Copy Clone, Goat 0/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B
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