Marisi | Everyone loves a Timmy

Commander / EDH Casual Group Hug Multiplayer Primer RGW (Naya) Tokens

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Land (35)

• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 4x Forest
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 4x Plains
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Evasion (6)

• 1x Arahbo, Roar of the World
• 1x Herald of the Host
• 1x Iroas, God of Victory
• 1x Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist
• 1x Questing Beast
• 1x Thundermaw Hellkite

Protection (5)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Prowling Serpopard
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Sigarda, Host of Herons

Acceleration (11)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Once Upon a Time
• 1x Oreskos Explorer
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x Traverse the Outlands

Misdirection (8)

• 1x Bloodthirsty Blade
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Gahiji, Honored One
• 1x Hungry Lynx
• 1x Hunted Dragon
• 1x Master Warcraft
• 1x Odric, Master Tactician
• 1x Rite of the Raging Storm

Removal (7)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Qasali Slingers
• 1x Rampage of the Clans
• 1x Sylvan Reclamation
• 1x Volcanic Offering
• 1x Winds of Abandon

Slug (6)

• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• 1x Kinjalli's Sunwing
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x War's Toll
• 1x Windborn Muse

Commander (1)

Combat (8)

• 1x Aurelia, the Warleader
• 1x Bloodsworn Steward
• 1x Flamewake Phoenix
• 1x Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1x Gustcloak Savior
• 1x Jazal Goldmane
• 1x Mandate of Peace
• 1x Territorial Hellkite

Token (8)

• 1x Brimaz, King of Oreskos
• 1x Finale of Glory
• 1x God-Eternal Oketra
• 1x Hero of Bladehold
• 1x Leonin Warleader
• 1x Regal Caracal
• 1x Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor
• 1x Wingmate Roc

Card Draw (5)

• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Ohran Viper
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise

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Other (5)

• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Coveted Jewel
• 1x Rampage of the Clans
• 1x Reconnaissance
• 1x Sephara, Sky's Blade

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By unpopulair demand within my playgroup, i have disbanned Marisi. I loved to play this deck, but the forced combat strategy created unfun games for opponents.

Timmy players, we all know and love them. Show

Those who get excited by numbers. Power with double digits or large quantities of creatures. All as long as someones face becomes smashed!

Johnny players, their usually cool! Show

They think carefully and usually seek innovative to janky ways to score a win, all while not caring too much about losing 4 out of 5 matches.

Spike players, we don't take those people to kindly Show

He who seeks nothing but a win. Stalling games to eternity, cheap wincons and finding ways to bore the game as much as possible for your opponents. They talk of nothing but infinite combos and annihilating players on turn 4.

These are the three archetypes of Magic players. But here, we make everyone a Timmy. Because we all love Timmy players!

Deck's key strengths:

• Forcing opponents to attack means their left defenceless. And in turn, they can again be goaded!
• Which makes for an insane 3 player win matchup. Once both opponents are goaded, they can hardly come back.
• Marisi forces defensive playstyles to go aggressive, which messes their gameplan.
• Naya has all the tools for fun games!

Deck's weaknesses:

• Goaded creatures need to attack. Even in your direction if otherwise isn't able.
• This deck will be heavily Marisi depended.

The Strategy

Acceleration:

Our CMC is not terrible, but it really could use some acceleration. Therefor:

• 3 simple acceleration spells like Oreskos Explorer and Skyshroud Claim.
• 5 support spells like Mirari's Wake and Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 2 landcycling cards Sylvan Reclamation and Treacherous Terrain for flexible usage.

Traverse the Outlands will often supply us every land we will ever need and with critters as Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma we can quickly get much value out of an early game.

Skyshroud Claim and Krosan Verge can fetch a Scattered Groves, Sheltered Thicket, Stomping Ground or Temple Garden.

Interesting to note is that when playing Tempt with Discovery, never instantly grab for your highest valued card. "Bait" with something simple as a Command Tower before playing a Strip Mine or Maze of Ith. I recommended to hold a Strip Mine in your deck in case someone comes with a Gaea's Cradle or a Glacial Chasm.

Let's play a game of tag:

_"You're it!" I can already see Marisi giggle and frolic away after a connection with his opponent. Only for his opponent to bursts out in a blinding rage towards the wrong direction. Marisi however is not very good with making connections to opponents alone and he is not really evasive either. But luckily every allied creature that can connect makes a whole field Goaded, and our playground is full with evasive bodies. _

• On the ground we have Iroas, God of Victory and Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist, who compliment another on what Marisi lacks, complete evasion.

• Jedit Ojanen of Efrava with his evasive cato's and Herald of the Host can easily flank all opponents at once.

• Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor might possibly be attacking volunteerly.

• Aurelia, the Warleader and Arahbo, Roar of the World have been all-time staples in combat strategies, and conveniently both fit into Naya!

• Lastly with all those fliers, we have Thundermaw Hellkite or Naya Charm to create an open playfield.

• And Gustcloak Savior or Mandate of Peace are our undo-button if the field becomes heated.

No politics:

There is no point in goading players if they have no creatures so the likes of Hunted Dragon, Hungry Lynx, Rite of the Raging Storm or Tahngarth, First Mate help me with this.

And to encourage beating each others face, we include Bloodthirsty Blade, Crown of Doom and Gahiji, Honored One.

But we also don't want them to get to excited on attacking, so we include War's Toll, Kinjalli's Sunwing, Master Warcraft and Disrupt Decorum to manipulate the field for a bit.

Protection & Removal:

Asceticism and Rhythm of the Wild should keep blue players at bay while Sigarda, Host of Herons does this for black (and nowadays also white removal). Crawlspace, Seedborn Muse and Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs closes our own backdoor and goaded creatures that are forced our way.

Stax can be troublesome to deal with. A simple Meekstone and Silent Arbiter have shown me difficulties with this deck. Now I also don't want to blow up whole battlefields, but simply thin it out. Beast Within and Generous Gift are very versatile on this matter.

Volcanic Offering and Strip Mine are a necessary inclusion to my playgroup. My frustration towards Gaea's Cradle and Glacial Chasm are endless.

Achieving Victory

Winning Conditions:

Simply said Goad everything! We want others to play each other. And once that is over, we will trample over the remains.

My experience with Marisi so far is that once someone is goaded, they probably remain goaded. People without creatures, will have their game end quickly and oh, boy you don't want to play against a Marisi in a 3-man match!

War's Toll and Rite of the Raging Storm have been all-stars so far. They make for scary games.

Work In Progress

Primer is a work in progress! Marisi is definitely recommended for a pickup. Thoughts and feedback are welcome!

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.02
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Beast 3/3 G, Bird 3/4 W, Cat 1/1 W w/ Lifelink, Cat Soldier 1/1 W, Centaur 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Elephant 3/3 G, Knight 2/2 W w/ First Strike, Lightning Rager, Ogre 3/3 R, Rat 1/1 B w/ Deathtouch, Soldier 1/1 W, Soldier 2/2 W, Survivor 1/1 R, Zombie Warrior 4/4 B
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