Mairsil Demands, "It Puts the Lotion on the Skin"

Commander / EDH Combo Multiplayer UBR (Grixis) Voltron

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Land (38)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crosis's Catacombs
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 7x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Rocky Tar Pit
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (7)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow

Creature (27)

• 1x AEtherling
• 1x Anger
• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Blighted Bat
• 1x Cavern Harpy
• 1x Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Hateflayer
• 1x Hoard-Smelter Dragon
• 1x Horseshoe Crab
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Jodah's Avenger
• 1x Mercurial Chemister
• 1x Minion of Leshrac
• 1x Morphling
• 1x Ovinomancer
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Pestilent Souleater
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 1x Quicksilver Elemental
• 1x Shauku, Endbringer
• 1x Skyship Stalker
• 1x Skywing Aven
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Torchling
• 1x Tree of Perdition

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Collusion
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Windfall

Commander (1)

Artifact (19)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Obelisk of Grixis
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Fervor

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Creature (2)

• 1x Dominating Licid
• 1x Hedron Crab

Land (1)

• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Customs Depot

Artifact (1)

• 1x Hammer of Purphoros

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Voltron/combo deck with magic's own Buffalo Bill at the head. This crazy sadist has found himself in a magical land, so his skin suits give him magical powers!

the phrase "in the pit" refers to cards exiled with Mairsil, the Pretender's ability

I know the counters are technically cage counters, and the lore is he put ith in a cage, but come on!!!! The flipping picture is a person looking into a damned pit!

protection

Lightning Greaves, Crystal Shard, and Riptide Laboratory

In the pit: Arcanis the Omnipotent, Cavern Harpy, AEtherling, Morphling, Torchling, Sensei's Divining Top, Mirage Mirror, Pack Rat,Ovinomancer, Skywing Aven and Crystal Shard

Win-Cons:

Have these cards in the pit at the same time:

Tree of Perdition + Hateflayer to set an opponent's life to 4 and then deal 4 dmg to them. Toss in Quicksilver Elemental to hit the whole table in one turn.

Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief//Hoard-Smelter Dragon + Pestilent Souleater + AEtherling//Jodah's Avenger to make Mairsil unblockable and one-shot infect kill an opponent. Add in Hateflayer + Quicksilver Elemental to do it without combat dmg to the whole table. All in one turn.

Basalt Monolith//Gilded Lotus + Pili-Pala + Quicksilver Elemental for infinite mana. Can use the mana to:

• kill every targetable creature with Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief

• infinite dmg to players with Hateflayer

• destroy every targetable artifact with Hoard-Smelter Dragon

Upgrades//musings

After a few games, i have noticed some intricacies that will require a few changes to the deck.

• equipment is too temporary due to how often mairsil is bounced. Since they cannot be equpied at instant speed, they are subpar in this deck. So, seemingly solid includes like Illusionist's Bracers and swiftboots are actually pretty bad.

• The more card draw spells/effects in this deck, the better. This deck loses lots of card advantage due to mairsil grabbing cards from your hand, and discarding cards to abilities. Repeatable and/or large chunks of card draw are needed. So effects like Rhystic Study and Pull from Tomorrow, respectively.

Know how Sensei's Divining Top is one of the best cards in edh? Well it is even better in this deck! Once it's in the pit, it does all the normal top shenanigans, protects mairsil from removal, and sets you up to cast him again to put more cards in the pit! It's so good i am considering putting in Trinket Mage just to tutor up top!

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.69
Tokens	Copy Clone, Sheep 0/1 G
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