Still Just a Rat in a Cage

Commander / EDH Combo Control Infinite Combo UBR (Grixis)

S1ayerMonkey

Instant (23)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Disrupt
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Opt
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Refocus
• 1x Shatter
• 1x Smelt
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Turn Aside
• 1x Unsubstantiate

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Windfall

Land (34)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 11x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rocky Tar Pit
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Wandering Fumarole

Creature (16)

• 1x AEtherling
• 1x Anthroplasm
• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Galecaster Colossus
• 1x Hateflayer
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Horseshoe Crab
• 1x Mercurial Chemister
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 1x Prognostic Sphinx
• 1x Quicksilver Elemental
• 1x Sage of Hours
• 1x Tree of Perdition

Commander (1)

Artifact (16)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thought Vessel

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x Fervor
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence

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Enchantment (3)

• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Training Grounds

Creature (2)

• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Goblin Goliath

Artifact (1)

• 1x Gilded Lotus

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This is my take on how to build around B̶i̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶C̶o̶r̶g̶a̶n̶ Mairsil, the Pretender .

The main structure of the deck is to play mild Grixis control until you can cruise to the win. Often this is simply commander damage by making Mairsil, the Pretender a huge unblockable creature with AEtherling and Anthroplasm . Of course, there are other ways to win, including caging Basalt Monolith , Quicksilver Elemental , and Horseshoe Crab for a very large Comet Storm in the mid-late game.

For those who love combos, this deck features Anthroplasm + Sage of Hours for infinite turns and Tree of Perdition + Hateflayer to K/O anybody. Add a Quicksilver Elemental to the latter combo and you can win on the spot with enough mana. For infinite colourless mana, cage Basalt Monolith , Pili-Pala , and Quicksilver Elemental .

Perhaps the dirtiest little trick in the deck: cage Nevinyrral's Disk and an ablity like Soul of New Phyrexia or AEtherling to have a one-sided board wipe every turn.

Top Ranked	Achieved #29 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH UBR (Grixis) 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 months
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 29 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.86
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Enchantment Golem 3/3 C, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	My Commander Decks