my commander is grim monolith

Commander / EDH*

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Land (28)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 6x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Unearth
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Instant (20)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mental Note
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Predict
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Quicken
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Creature (15)

• 1x AEtherling
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Dregscape Zombie
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Mirror-Mad Phantasm
• 1x Narcomoeba
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Overeager Apprentice
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Street Wraith

Commander (1)

Artifact (18)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thought Vessel

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Pack Rat

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Aphetto Alchemist
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Skirge Familiar

Instant (1)

• 1x Delay

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Grim Tutor

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Mairsil, AKA 3 color adjusted necrotic ooze

Author's Note: I am choosing not to explain every little detail of the deck so as to leave a few easter eggs for you to find.

Introduction

So, I'm going to prefix this by saying, I'm horrible at writing primers. Therefore, if you see an error in the primer, want a question answered or want to suggest changes, then please comment below. If you like what you see, please feel free to upvote.

This is meant for competitive EDH. If your playgroup does not follow this meta, please don't use this. Competitive decks tend to be more fast or redundant than most people enjoy. That being said, that means this list is budgetless. I do not care about price so please, by all means suggest regardless of cost (assuming its legal). I do not care for foiling out everything as this is meant to be just a list. A deck should reflect you, so if you want your deck foiled out, go for it. This also helps you figure out the base cost (according to TCGplayer) to build this deck.

Now with that out of the way, lets begin.

Why would I like playing Mairsil

Mairsil is a fairly straightforward combo deck that allows redundancy for your combos. He is one of the few commanders that is a combo, directly from the command zone. He is quite simply a second necrotic ooze. If you do not know why I do not include necrotic ooze for extra redundancy, there are two reasons. The first is that necrotic ooze has a stupidly high CMC for what I consider justification. Secondly, I will likely always have access to mairsil so I do not really need another outlet.

You may like this commander if:

• You want to combo off

• You want to use the graveyard as a secondary hand

You may not like this commander if:

• You like swinging heavy and/or often

• You want heavy control options

• You want to play storm (look to Kess or Jaleva then)

• You want linearity in your combo

• You like playing goodstuff

• You want a budget commander for cEDH (I get it. Look to yisan or selvala then)

deck components

Counterspells

1x dispel

1x flusterstorm

1x mana drain

1x mental misstep

1x pact of negation

1x pyroblast

1x Red Elemental Blast

1x Swan Song

Tutors

1x Sensei's Divining Top

1x Demonic Tutor

1x burried alive

1x entomb

1x Gamble

1x Imperial Seal

1x Personal Tutor

1x Intuition

1x Lim-Dul's Vault

1x Mystical Tutor

1x Vampiric Tutor

1x Imperial Recruiter

Winning

There are two main ways to win in this deck: doomsday and Mirror mad phantasm. mirror mad phantasm causes mairsil to become a hermit druid deck. in which case, follow the win route of the old HD deck. I can't efficiently explain doomsday so heres a link to the primer.

1x Doomsday

1x Dread Return

1x Laboratory Maniac

1x Dregscape Zombie

1x Fatestitcher

1x Unearth

1x Mirror-Mad Phantasm

1x Narcomoeba

Card Draw

1x Mystic Remora

1x deep analysis

1x Memory Jar

1x Ponder

1x Preordain

1x Gitaxian Probe

1x Faithless Looting

1x Careful Study

1x Wheel of Fortune

1x Quicken

1x Notion Thief

1x Street Wraith

1x Mental Note

1x Magus of the Wheel

1x Predict

1x Thought Scour

1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy

1x Necropotence

Combo Protection

1x Lightning Greaves

1x Snapcaster Mage

1x Essence Flux

1x Spellskite

1x AEtherling

1x Goblin Welder

Ramp

If you want to win by turn 5 (cEDH standard worst case scenario), you're going to need to ramp. Therefore, I offer the following to you for ramp options (Note: discarding your hand is not really a downside since Mairsil lets you reuse your graveyard):

1x Chrome Mox

1x Dimir Signet

1x Cabal Ritual

1x Dark Ritual

1x Baral, Chief of Compliance

1x Fellwar Stone

1x Izzet Signet

1x Lion's Eye Diamond

1x Lotus Petal

1x Mana Crypt

1x Mana Vault

1x Mox Diamond

1x Mox Opal

1x Rakdos Signet

1x Sol Ring

1x Talisman of Dominance

1x Talisman of Indulgence

1x Thought Vessel

1x Overeager Apprentice

How do I use mairsil?

Welp, to understand mairsil, lets break down his abilities then.

First off, his first ability lets his cage an artifact and/or creature. He does not care how long ago they were caged. Clementine will remember that

His next ability is a little more complicated. Here is how it works: take all activated abilities of everything still in cages. if you do know what an activated ability is, then please look at a rulebook. I do not nearly have enough space to explain activated abilities. The thing to remember about Mairsil is that he can activate the abilities of any and all caged permanents. The catch is HE CAN ONLY USE THE INDIVIDUAL CAGED ABILITY ONCE PER TURN UNTIL HE BECOMES A NEW OBJECT.

Now how do we read Mairsil's gained abilities? It breaks down into 2 cases:

Does Mairsil emain on the board?

The copied cost will change to include Mairsil's name instead. The ability will then use Mairsil's name on the ability.

For example, let us now read what happens if Mairsil cages Grim Monolith

He would get the single use ability of:

• tap Mairsil: add to your mana pool

• pay : Untap Mairsil

Otherwise:The copied cost will change to include Mairsil's name instead. The ability will then use the original card's name on the ability.

For example, let us now read what happens if Mairsil cages Mirror-Mad Phantasm

He would get the single use ability of:

• pay , shuffle Mairsil into the deck: Mill until you find a card named Mirror-Mad Phantasm

In case people didn't know how this interaction works with cards like Necrotic Ooze, necrotic ooze works in the same exact way. Remember this and reread the win condition section to see if you understand it better.

FAQ

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Changelog

9/12/2017 12:41 AM +Quicken -???

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 1 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.89
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
Folders	cEDH, EDH Ideas, z. Fun Decks, EDH Decks to Make, EDH Deck ideas, Stuff I like, Grixis Decks EDH