Mairsil Stax Combo

Commander / EDH Competitive UBR (Grixis)

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Land (30)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Island
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Arcane Laboratory
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Mana Maze
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Stranglehold

Creature (17)

• 1x AEtherling
• 1x Anger
• 1x Cavern Harpy
• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Hateflayer
• 1x Infernal Denizen
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Mirror-Mad Phantasm
• 1x Narcomoeba
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Quicksilver Elemental
• 1x Shauku, Endbringer
• 1x Tree of Perdition

Artifact (15)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Web
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Winter Orb

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Dack Fayden

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall

Instant (14)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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Creature (4)

• 1x Anthroplasm
• 1x Knacksaw Clique
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Sage of Hours

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A cEDH stax deck that slows down the game to create an environment where you can out-attrition your opponent using Mairsil both as a resilient value engine and combo piece. Having Mairsil as your key piece to all your plays greatly breaks parity to many stax pieces having to only cast one spell at most on your turns. Mairsil has the added advantage of being able to additionally utilize graveyard entombs, while also running Grafdigger's Cage (heyo!).

Main win-con is a Dread Return/Lab Man win using Mirror-Mad Phantasm. Mirror-Mad Phantasm is a one card combo. Relatively straight-forward:

1. ( or ) Cast/blink Mairsil, caging Mirror-Mad

2. () Activate Mirror-Mad's ability, attempting to search a non-existent Mirror-Mad in your library, flipping your deck.

3. Narcomoeba trigger

4. () Unearth Fatestitcher (Activate ability to +)

5. () Cast Gravecrawler

6. Flashback Dread Return, targetting Lab Man

7. () Flashback Deep Analysis to win

Alternative win-con uses Tree of Perdition/Hateflayer. Takes longer to set-up, might consider taking out to slim down the deck more. Pretty self-explanatory.

Pros: Stax parity is very apparently one-sided as you play. The only spell you will play other than stax pieces or interaction is Mairsil. Afterwards, Mairsil is effectively his own hand of spells, slowly building up and only needing activated abilities.

Major cons of the deck: Many dead cards in the deck. Stitching together multiple pieces to make a resilient and value-generating Mairsil may take a long time, which is why the stax plan is needed. Unlike more casual variants, we slim down on all the more fun pieces to bolster the portion of the deck dedicated to stax. Despite this, we still need to pull 2+ pieces to make a reliably growing Mairsil.

More detailed write-up incoming.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.60
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Emblem Dack Fayden, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	Commander