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Mairsil, the Pretender EDH
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $724.98
Salt sum: 41.22
Est Commander Bracket: 3
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Mairsil, the Pretender

When Mairsil, the Pretender enters, 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

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Drain

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Tree of Perdition

Defender {T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with this creature's toughness.

Creature
Tree of Perdition (emn) 109

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Proliferate

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Staff of Compleation

{T}, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color. {T}, Pay 3 life: Proliferate. {T}, Pay 4 life: Draw a card. {5}: Untap Staff of Compleation.

Artifact
Staff of Compleation (one) 242

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Tokens

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Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei

{R}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn. {3}{R}{R}: Create a 5/5 red Dragon Spirit creature token with flying. Activate only if you control an attacking modified creature. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Creature
Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei (neo) 145
Ulamog's Dreadsire

Vigilance Ward—Sacrifice a permanent with mana value 1 or greater. {T}: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Creature
Ulamog's Dreadsire (m3c) 38

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Anthem

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Anger

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

Creature
Anger (afc) 113

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Draw

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Arcanis the Omnipotent

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

Creature
Arcanis the Omnipotent (dmr) 39
Asmodeus the Archfiend

Binding Contract — If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead. {B}{B}{B}: Draw seven cards. {B}: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus the Archfiend to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

Creature
Asmodeus the Archfiend (afr) 88
Candlekeep Sage

Commander creatures you own have "When this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, draw a card."

Enchantment
Candlekeep Sage (clb) 60
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 (clu) 86
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (cmm) 96
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59
Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God has all loyalty abilities of all other planeswalkers on the battlefield. +1: You draw a card. Each opponent exiles a card from their hand or a permanent they control. −3: Destroy target creature or planeswalker. −8: Each opponent who doesn't control a legendary creature or planeswalker loses the game.

Planeswalker
Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God (rvr) 205
Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (jmp) 169
Search for Azcanta

Enchantment
Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (xln) 74Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (xln) 74
Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (one) 151
Wand of Wonder

{4}, {T}: Roll a d20. Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card, then shuffles the rest into their library. You may cast up to X instant and/or sorcery spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs. 1—9 | X is one. 10—19 | X is two. 20 | X is three.

Artifact
Wand of Wonder (clb) 204
Whispering Madness

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Whispering Madness (c16) 229

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Protection

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Cavern Harpy

Flying When Cavern Harpy enters, 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 (pls) 97
Encroaching Mycosynth

Nonland permanents you control are artifacts in addition to their other types. The same is true for permanent spells you control and nonland permanent cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Artifact
Encroaching Mycosynth (one) 47
Endling

{B}: Endling gains menace until end of turn. {B}: Endling gains deathtouch until end of turn. {B}: Endling gains undying until end of turn. (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.) {1}: Endling gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Endling (mh1) 89
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (lcc) 314

Protection

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Tutor

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Buried Alive

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

Sorcery
Buried Alive (uma) 88
Entomb

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

Instant
Entomb (dmr) 82
Oriq Loremage

{T}: Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. If it's an instant or sorcery card, put a +1/+1 counter on Oriq Loremage.

Creature
Oriq Loremage (stx) 80

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Artifact

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The Enigma Jewel

Artifact
The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment (lci) 55The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment (lci) 55

Artifact

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Instant

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Demand Answers

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Demand Answers (mkm) 122

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (mkc) 223
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
Chromatic Lantern

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

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (rvr) 253
Coveted Jewel

When Coveted Jewel enters, draw three cards. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of Coveted Jewel. Untap it.

Artifact
Coveted Jewel (moc) 353
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (clu) 221
Gilded Lotus

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

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (cmm) 387
Heartstone

Activated abilities of creatures cost {1} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Artifact
Heartstone (sth) 134
Izzet Signet

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

Artifact
Izzet Signet (clu) 224
Patron of the Moon

Moonfolk offering (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant by sacrificing a Moonfolk and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed Moonfolk. Mana cost includes color.) Flying {1}: Put up to two land cards from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Patron of the Moon (bok) 45
Pendant of Prosperity

Pendant of Prosperity enters under the control of an opponent of your choice. {2}, {T}: Draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. Pendant of Prosperity's owner draws a card, then that player may put a land card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Pendant of Prosperity (c21) 256
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (clu) 226
Relic of Sauron

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of {U}, {B}, and/or {R}. {3}, {T}: Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Artifact
Relic of Sauron (ltc) 79
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237
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 (mat) 9

Ramp

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Untap

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Eater of the Dead

{0}: If Eater of the Dead is tapped, exile target creature card from a graveyard and untap Eater of the Dead.

Creature
Eater of the Dead (mb2) 183
Farmstead Gleaner

Farmstead Gleaner doesn't untap during your untap step. {2}, {Q}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Farmstead Gleaner. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Creature Artifact
Farmstead Gleaner (mh1) 222
Hateflayer

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) {2}{R}, {Q}: Hateflayer deals damage equal to its power to any target. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Creature
Hateflayer (eve) 55
Horseshoe Crab

{U}: Untap Horseshoe Crab.

Creature
Horseshoe Crab (dmr) 55
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
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

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Land

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Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (uma) 236
Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Command Beacon: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (cmr) 349
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (mkc) 256
Crumbling Necropolis

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

Land
Crumbling Necropolis (lcc) 326
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (mkc) 260
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (m21) 246
Grixis Panorama

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Grixis Panorama: Search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Grixis Panorama (ncc) 407
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mh3) 305
Luxury Suite

Luxury Suite enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
Maestros Theater

When Maestros Theater enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Maestros Theater (snc) 251
Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land
Maze of Ith (dmr) 250
Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (chk) 279
Morphic Pool

Morphic Pool enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (blb) 275
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Plaza of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell. {T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary permanents you control. {3}, {T}, Exile Plaza of Heroes: Target legendary creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Land
Plaza of Heroes (dmu) 252
Raucous Theater

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) Raucous Theater enters tapped. When Raucous Theater enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Raucous Theater (mkm) 266
Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
Sanctum of Eternity

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Return target commander you own from the battlefield to your hand. Activate only during your turn.

Land
Sanctum of Eternity (c19) 59
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (mkc) 299
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mh3) 306
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (mkc) 305
Thundering Falls

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) Thundering Falls enters tapped. When Thundering Falls enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Thundering Falls (mkm) 269
Training Center

Training Center enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Training Center (cmm) 434
Undercity Sewers

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Undercity Sewers enters tapped. When Undercity Sewers enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Xander's Lounge

({T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.) Xander's Lounge enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Xander's Lounge (snc) 260

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Recursion

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Daretti, Scrap Savant

+2: Discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards. −2: Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield. −10: You get an emblem with "Whenever an artifact is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step." Daretti, Scrap Savant can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Daretti, Scrap Savant (cmm) 213
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

Recursion

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Battlemage's Bracers

Equipped creature has haste. Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay {1}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. Equip {2}

Artifact
Battlemage's Bracers (c21) 48
Helm of the Host

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste. Equip {5}

Artifact
Helm of the Host (dom) 217
Irenicus's Vile Duplication

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except the token has flying and it isn't legendary.

Sorcery
Irenicus's Vile Duplication (clb) 78
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

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Mill

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Ashiok, Dream Render

Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause their controller to search their library. −1: Target player mills four cards. Then exile each opponent's graveyard.

Planeswalker
Ashiok, Dream Render (war) 228
Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample Pay 2 life: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature
Doom Whisperer (mkc) 128

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Removal

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Infernal Denizen

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice two Swamps. If you can't, tap Infernal Denizen, and an opponent may gain control of a creature you control of their choice for as long as Infernal Denizen remains on the battlefield. {T}: Gain control of target creature for as long as Infernal Denizen remains on the battlefield.

Creature
Infernal Denizen (ice) 136
Minion of Leshrac

Protection from black At the beginning of your upkeep, Minion of Leshrac deals 5 damage to you unless you sacrifice a creature other than Minion of Leshrac. If Minion of Leshrac deals damage to you this way, tap it. {T}: Destroy target creature or land.

Creature
Minion of Leshrac (ice) 150
Nevinyrral's Disk

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

Artifact
Nevinyrral's Disk (cmm) 965
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
Visara the Dreadful

Flying {T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Creature
Visara the Dreadful (ema) 114
Walking Ballista

Walking Ballista enters 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 (2xm) 306

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