Mairsil Hates Other Players

Commander / EDH*

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Land (36)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 8x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall

Creature (22)

• 1x AEtherling
• 1x Anger
• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Cavern Harpy
• 1x Crimson Mage
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Empress Galina
• 1x Knacksaw Clique
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Mercurial Chemister
• 1x Morphling
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Patron of the Moon
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 1x Quicksilver Elemental
• 1x Shauku, Endbringer
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Spikeshot Goblin
• 1x Spiny Starfish
• 1x Tree of Perdition

Instant (12)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Commander (1)

Artifact (17)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Prismatic Geoscope
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Fervor
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Training Grounds

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My take on Mairsil.

Quicksilver Elemental and the Rules: When Mairsil was spoiled, Quicksilver Elemental quickly found its way into conversations about Mairsil driven combos. It was initially believed that you could skirt Mairsils once per turn restriction by using Mairsil to activate Quicksilvers ability targeting himself. There are some nuances here that should be cleared up:

1) All abilities that Mairsil possesses can be used once per turn, even if there are many abilities on one single card.

2) Quicksilver Elementals ability allows you to give Mairsil a new instance of all abilities, allowing to use the abilities an additional time if youve already used them.

3) The new abilities from Quicksilver Elemental also carry the once per turn restriction. This means you have to pay a blue mana every time, that you want to re-buy your abilities.

You can find see the ruling in this tweet from the Magic Rules Manager.

To execute the infinite mana combo, Mairsil needs to be ready to tap, which means we need him to survive a turn (good luck with that), or he needs to have haste (more on this later). Tap Mairsil using Gilded Lotus' ability to create three blue mana. Then use one blue to untap Mairsil with Staff of Domination's untap ability. Because of Mairsil's "once a turn" clause the party would typically be over, but thanks to Quicksilver Elemental were be able to grant Mairsil a new instance of all abilities. Use a second blue mana to activate Quicksilver Elemental's ability targeting Himself. Each time you repeat this process you net one blue mana.After making a few thousand blue mana, you can start using Mairsil's "5, Tap, Draw a card." ability, thanks to our caged Staff of Domination, to draw your deck. You can also make as much mana of any color. It's usually pretty easy to win the game after drawing your whole deck, and having access to any amount of mana, but my weapon of choice is Walking Ballista.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.47
Tokens	0/1 U Creature Starfish, Copy Clone
Folders	EDH Decks