The Pretender

Commander / EDH Budget Combo Infinite Combo Turns UBR (Grixis)

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Land (33)

• 1x Akoum Refuge
• 1x Bloodfell Caves
• 1x Cinder Barrens
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Highland Lake
• 6x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Submerged Boneyard
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Protection (6)

• 1x Advanced Hoverguard
• 1x AEtherling
• 1x Argent Sphinx
• 1x Cavern Harpy
• 1x Darting Merfolk
• 1x Lantern Spirit

Haste (5)

• 1x Blighted Bat
• 1x Crimson Mage
• 1x Shriekdiver
• 1x Skyship Stalker
• 1x Whip Sergeant

Cycle (11)

• 1x Breakthrough
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Read the Runes
• 1x Thrill of Possibility
• 1x Tormenting Voice

Combo (8)

• 1x Anthroplasm
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Horseshoe Crab
• 1x Magistrate's Scepter
• 1x Sage of Hours
• 1x Soliton
• 1x Torchling
• 1x Ventifact Bottle

Board Wipe (7)

• 1x Bloodfire Colossus
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Languish
• 1x Last One Standing
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Ritual of Soot

Ramp (6)

• 1x Deranged Assistant
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Talisman of Creativity

Commander (1)

Tutor (9)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Clutch of the Undercity
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman

Removal (7)

• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Ovinomancer
• 1x Price of Fame
• 1x Reckless Spite
• 1x Terminate

Counterspell (4)

• 1x Dispel
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Negate
• 1x Wizard's Retort

Other (3)

• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Vault of Whispers

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Win with one of two infinite turn combos each requiring Mairsil, the Pretender to exile the pieces and pop off himself. The first is Anthroplasm + Sage of Hours so its extremely simple and easy to assemble. Always got for this plan first. If for some reason one of those pieces gets exiled, go for the backup plan Ventifact Bottle + Magistrate's Scepter + (Untap Activated Ability). This one is only secondary because it requires one more piece. The benefit is we might want to untap activated ability caged with Mairsil anyway just to enable effective use of abilities like Ovinomancer although for the most part we just want to tunnel on getting our combo. Once we take infinite turns we win using Elixir of Immortality to ensure a loop and then Ovinomancer 's ability to clear the whole board (you can even play him from hand if you don't have untap on your commander) then just swing in. If there's some kind of artifact or enchantment blocking your attacks, just find Nevinyrral's Disk first. Speaking of Nevinyrral's Disk , that card is amazing on our commander because we can activate any of our protection abilities while that destruction ability is on the stack leading to a repeatable board wipe every turn.

This might be a deck where you'll want to show the infinite combo, prove you can win, but then just leave the game and let them play the rest out without you. With a combo so easy to pull off and tons of tutors I won't be surprised if this deck was fairly frustrating to play against!

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 20 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 37 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.02
Tokens	Sheep 0/1 G