Mairsil the Toolbox, Budget $100

Commander / EDH Budget Casual UBR (Grixis) Wizards

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Creature (30)

• 1x AEtherling
• 1x Anger
• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Cavern Harpy
• 1x Cephalid Inkshrouder
• 1x Cinderhaze Wretch
• 1x Disciple of Griselbrand
• 1x Galecaster Colossus
• 1x Hateflayer
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Izzet Chemister
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Mercurial Chemister
• 1x Mortivore
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Oona, Queen of the Fae
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 1x Quicksilver Elemental
• 1x Riptide Mangler
• 1x Skyship Stalker
• 1x Sokenzan Spellblade
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x The Locust God
• 1x Tomb Robber
• 1x Torchling
• 1x Tree of Perdition

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Fervor

Land (37)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crosis's Catacombs
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 7x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Artifact (10)

• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Retrofitter Foundry
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Trading Post

Commander (1)

Instant (12)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Fumble
• 1x Murder
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Reality Shift

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x By Force
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Windfall

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Maybeboard

Creature (13)

• 1x Bloodfire Colossus
• 1x Corrosive Mentor
• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Hammerfist Giant
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Horseshoe Crab
• 1x Jodah's Avenger
• 1x Minotaur Illusionist
• 1x Onyx Mage
• 1x Prakhata Pillar-Bug
• 1x Riptide Director
• 1x Shauku, Endbringer
• 1x The Locust God

Instant (5)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Opportunity
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Terminate

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Last One Standing
• 1x Necromantic Selection

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Training Grounds

Artifact (2)

• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Land (2)

• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Opal Palace

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The goal was to make a fun, but competitive budget (~$100) deck that allows multiple ways to build up Mairsil during a game. Most, if not all, the artifacts and creatures have an interesting set of activated abilities that can be caged and leveraged by Mairsil to respond to changing board states. Mairsil is a very interesting commander that can be built in any number of ways, from highly competitive to hilarious jank, the choice is yours.

Several combos and win conditions are present inside the deck and can either be swapped in or out depending on the local meta:

Hordes of Angry Locusts

The Locust God , a reoccurring threat on his own, with powerful draw spells like Blue Sun's Zenith supported by Windfall and Jace's Archivist this allows you to rapidly populate your own board with hasty 1/1 flyers to either chump block or beat down opponents. Should he somehow end up in the graveyard he can be caged by Mairsil to help enable more cages via his activated looting ability. Mairsil is already a card hungry deck, so you'll be wanting to draw and discard cards as often as you can to enable cages. The Locust God helps add even more value while you build up Mairsil.

The Queen and her Court

Oona, Queen of the Fae is another large threat within the deck. Her ability allows you to establish a board presence while exiling cards from your opponents decks, or win outright once you've produced infinite mana with Mairsil. While already decent as a 5/5 flyer, her ability to exile an opponents deck at instant speed make her a threat both on the battlefield or when caged by Mairsil.

Mairsil Infinite Mana Combo

The bread and butter of most Mairsil decks, this relies on caging flicker effects such as with AEtherling or Cavern Harpy to rapidly acquire cages and protect Mairsil. Next you want to acquire ways to untap Mairsil cheaply. This can be done either with artifacts such as Thousand-Year Elixir , Magewright's Stone , or with creatures such as Torchling , Horseshoe Crab , and Cinderhaze Wretch . Finally, leveraging things that produce large amounts of mana, such as Gilded Lotus , with Quicksilver Elemental to get around the "once per turn" clause of Mairsil's caged abilities. Just remember to account for the 1 you will need to get another, fresh set of Mairsil's cages each time you go through the combo. If done correctly this should net you +1 mana each loop.

This deck runs a larger amount of creatures than some Mairsil decks due to a relatively creature heavy meta. This allows allows you assemble a semi-voltron Mairsil with cards such as Sokenzan Spellblade , Skyship Stalker , and utility creatures such as Onyx Mage and Soul of New Phyrexia to trade up when fending off creatures. The goal here was to allow you to change from combo to combat if needed.

To keep things in the $100 range it's not running better options such as Thousand-Year Elixir or Shauku, Endbringer

This is overall meant as a fun budget build, but can be rapidly pumped up to a more threatening deck using some of the cards in the Maybeboard. All critiques and suggestions are welcome!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Splash colors	R
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 26 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.51
Tokens	Construct 4/4 C, Copy Clone, Faerie Rogue 1/1 UB, Goat 0/1 W, Insect 1/1 UR, Manifest 2/2 C, Servo 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C
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