Mairsil, the Pretender C17

Commander / EDH* Discard Multiplayer Reanimator UBR (Grixis)

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Creature (29)

• 1x AEtherling
• 1x Anger
• 1x Anthroplasm
• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Cavern Harpy
• 1x Disciple of the Ring
• 1x Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Galecaster Colossus
• 1x Grixis Battlemage
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
• 1x Mercurial Chemister
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Morphling
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Oona, Queen of the Fae
• 1x Pestilent Souleater
• 1x Phyrexian Devourer
• 1x Quicksilver Elemental
• 1x Sage of Hours
• 1x Shauku, Endbringer
• 1x Spikeshot Elder
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Walking Ballista

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Training Grounds

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant

Land (37)

• 1x Akoum Refuge
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 7x Island
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Wasteland

Instant (10)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Negate
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge

Commander (1)

Artifact (12)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Windfall

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Artifact (5)

• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Strionic Resonator

Creature (5)

• 1x Cephalid Inkshrouder
• 1x Nivix Guildmage
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 1x Stormchaser Chimera
• 1x Taigam, Sidisi's Hand

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This is a list for Mairsil, the Pretender, new upcoming commander in C17. It's meant to be more than your artifact combo centered deck, so it have cards to kill people on commander damage too. Overall plan is to find bouncing/recursion ASAP (preferably Aetherling) then start building up Mairsil for whatever you want. Draw/discard effects are amazing here as Mairsil also feeds from the grave.

Infinite Color mana and draw: Cage Quicksilver Elemental, Gilded Lotus and Staff of Domination. The elemental allow you to activate the "same" ability once again. Get 3 blue from Lotus, use 1 to untap Mairsil with staff's ability and another to enable reusing those abilities; repeat to infinite color mana.

Infinite Colorless and draw: Metalworker + Staff of Domination + 3 artifacts in hand (won't work if used through Mairsil this time). Rings of Brighthearth + Basalt Monolith is also infinite mana combo, but with no infinite draw.

Mana rich finishers: Oona, Queen of the Fae and Walking Ballista are winners, Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief and The Scarab God will not win instantly but will get you a lot closer. Staff of Domination allow you to draw your entire deck on both mana combos, so it becomes pretty easy once you pulled them off.

Other Combos: Anthroplasm + Sage of Hours - infinite turns as long as you can pay 5 mana every turn. You can explore Phyrexian Devourer instead of Anthroplasm too but not infinite; with Quicksilver Elemental you can have a lot of extra turns, but will exile a many cards from your deck as a result and you'll need some extra blue mana to pay Quicksilver's ability.

About Quicksilver Elemental: Mairsil doesn't get infinite activations with it. It requires activating Quicksilver's ability everytime you want to use your abilities over, so only an infinite color mana combo can do it. HOWEVER!!! Although not going infinite, there's a trick on this ability that allow a lot of repetitions without paying too much blue. Pay U to copy your abilities, so you have 2 of the same. If you copy again before activating them, you will have 4, do it again for 8 and so on. With four blue mana you can have 16 copies of each of your abilities! With Phyrexian Devourer this is easy 21 commander damage.

Top Ranked	Achieved #66 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.46
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Faerie Rogue 1/1 UB
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