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Replacement Commanders — Activating Abilities with the Great Pretender - Mairsil, the Ability Hoarder
Deck Size: 99
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Est deck cost: $1214.76
Salt Sum: 49.73
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Commander

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Mairsil, the Pretender

When Mairsil, the Pretender enters the battlefield, you may exile an artifact or creature card from your hand or graveyard and put a cage counter on it. Mairsil, the Pretender has all activated abilities of all cards you own in exile with cage counters on them. You may activate each of those abilities only once each turn.

Creature
Mairsil, the Pretender (c17) 41
1

Artifacts

Quantity: 19Price: $107.77
Basalt Monolith

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}. {3}: Untap Basalt Monolith.

Artifact
Basalt Monolith (2xm) 232
1
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (onc) 127
1
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (moc) 352
1
Conjurer's Closet

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Artifact
Conjurer's Closet (2xm) 243
1
Darksteel Plate

Indestructible Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {2}

Artifact
Darksteel Plate (2x2) 304
1
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (scd) 263
1
Gilded Lotus

{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (dom) 215
1
Illusionist's Bracers

Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. Equip {3}

Artifact
Illusionist's Bracers (plst) GTC-231
1
Izzet Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Artifact
Izzet Signet (moc) 362
1
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (scd) 269
1
Mirage Mirror

{2}: Mirage Mirror becomes a copy of target artifact, creature, enchantment, or land until end of turn.

Artifact
Mirage Mirror (nec) 154
1
Nevinyrral's Disk

Nevinyrral's Disk enters the battlefield tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Artifact
Nevinyrral's Disk (mh2) 298
1
Rakdos Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (scd) 272
1
Rings of Brighthearth

Whenever you activate an ability, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay {2}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Artifact
Rings of Brighthearth (cmr) 335
1
Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (2x2) 314
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
1
Staff of Domination

{1}: Untap Staff of Domination. {2}, {T}: You gain 1 life. {3}, {T}: Untap target creature. {4}, {T}: Tap target creature. {5}, {T}: Draw a card.

Artifact
Staff of Domination (cmr) 343
1
Thousand-Year Elixir

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste. {1}, {T}: Untap target creature.

Artifact
Thousand-Year Elixir (c21) 271
1
Trading Post

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: You gain 4 life. {1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Trading Post (brc) 169
1

Creatures

Quantity: 19Price: $91.93
Anger

Haste As long as Anger is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Anger (afc) 113
1
Arcanis the Omnipotent

{T}: Draw three cards. {2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis the Omnipotent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Arcanis the Omnipotent (dmr) 39
1
Cavern Harpy

Flying When Cavern Harpy enters the battlefield, return a blue or black creature you control to its owner's hand. Pay 1 life: Return Cavern Harpy to its owner's hand.

Creature
Cavern Harpy (plst) PLS-97
1
Cinderhaze Wretch

{T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn. Put a -1/-1 counter on Cinderhaze Wretch: Untap Cinderhaze Wretch.

Creature
Cinderhaze Wretch (shm) 60
1
Deadeye Navigator

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Deadeye Navigator is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "{1}{U}: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control."

Creature
Deadeye Navigator (mm3) 36
1
Dralnu, Lich Lord

If damage would be dealt to Dralnu, Lich Lord, sacrifice that many permanents instead. {T}: Target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature
Dralnu, Lich Lord (tsr) 251
1
Havengul Lich

{1}: You may cast target creature card in a graveyard this turn. When you cast it this turn, Havengul Lich gains all activated abilities of that card until end of turn.

Creature
Havengul Lich (scd) 231
1
Jace's Archivist

{U}, {T}: Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Creature
Jace's Archivist (c15) 95
1
Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature
Laboratory Maniac (plst) ISD-61
1
Memnarch

{1}{U}{U}: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) {3}{U}: Gain control of target artifact. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Creature Artifact
Memnarch (arc) 112
1
Morphling

{U}: Untap Morphling. {U}: Morphling gains flying until end of turn. {U}: Morphling gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {1}: Morphling gets +1/-1 until end of turn. {1}: Morphling gets -1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Morphling (usg) 85
1
Necrotic Ooze

As long as Necrotic Ooze is on the battlefield, it has all activated abilities of all creature cards in all graveyards.

Creature
Necrotic Ooze (2x2) 83
1
Pack Rat

Pack Rat's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Rats you control. {2}{B}, Discard a card: Create a token that's a copy of Pack Rat.

Creature
Pack Rat (rtr) 73
1
Quicksilver Elemental

{U}: Quicksilver Elemental gains all activated abilities of target creature until end of turn. (If any of the abilities use that creature's name, use this creature's name instead.) You may spend blue mana as though it were mana of any color to pay the activation costs of Quicksilver Elemental's abilities.

Creature
Quicksilver Elemental (mrd) 47
1
Razaketh, the Foulblooded

Flying, trample Pay 2 life, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Razaketh, the Foulblooded (hou) 73
1
Shauku, Endbringer

Flying Shauku, Endbringer can't attack if there's another creature on the battlefield. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 3 life. {T}: Exile target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on Shauku.

Creature
Shauku, Endbringer (mir) 142
1
Soul of New Phyrexia

Trample {5}: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. {5}, Exile Soul of New Phyrexia from your graveyard: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Soul of New Phyrexia (moc) 382
1
Torchling

{R}: Untap Torchling. {R}: Target creature blocks Torchling this turn if able. {R}: Change the target of target spell that targets only Torchling. {1}: Torchling gets +1/-1 until end of turn. {1}: Torchling gets -1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Torchling (e01) 60
1
Walking Ballista

Walking Ballista enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. {4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Walking Ballista. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Walking Ballista: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Walking Ballista (j22) 806
1

Enchantments

Quantity: 4Price: $64.96
Fervor

Creatures you control have haste. (They can attack and {T} as soon as they come under your control.)

Enchantment
Fervor (m13) 129
1
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (one) 104
1
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
1
Training Grounds

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Enchantment
Training Grounds (plst) ROE-91
1

Instant

Quantity: 9Price: $242.49
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 45
1
Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Instant
Entomb (dmr) 82
1
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (dmr) 48
1
Forbidden Alchemy

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Flashback {6}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Forbidden Alchemy (2x2) 49
1
Intuition

Search your library for three cards and reveal them. Target opponent chooses one. Put that card into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

Instant
Intuition (tmp) 70
1
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (c16) 98
1
Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terminate (scd) 249
1
Thirst for Knowledge

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

Instant
Thirst for Knowledge (brc) 96
1
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108
1

Lands

Quantity: 36Price: $253.82
Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (plst) DIS-171
1
Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bloodstained Mire (ktk) 230
1
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
1
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
1
Crumbling Necropolis

Crumbling Necropolis enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Land
Crumbling Necropolis (brc) 179
1
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (moc) 397
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
10
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mom) 280
4
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
1
Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Scalding Tarn: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
1
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) Smoldering Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (scd) 319
1
Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) As Steam Vents enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Steam Vents (grn) 257
1
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Sunken Hollow enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (moc) 428
1
Sunken Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {U/B}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Land
Sunken Ruins (2xm) 326
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
7
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (moc) 439
1
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
1
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (grn) 259
1

Sorcery

Quantity: 11Price: $453.79
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (scd) 124
1
Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Buried Alive (uma) 88
1
Careful Study

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Sorcery
Careful Study (ody) 70
1
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
1
Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (c17) 111
1
Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (plst) UMA-93
1
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (brc) 116
1
Gamble

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Gamble (dmr) 121
1
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (scd) 167
1
Wheel of Fortune

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery
Wheel of Fortune (3ed) 185
1
Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery
Windfall (khc) 46
1

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