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Mairsil, the Pretender

Mairsil, the Pretender

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {1}{U}{B}{R} · Black/Red/Blue commander

When Mairsil enters, you may exile an artifact or creature card from your hand or graveyard and put a cage counter on it. Mairsil 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.
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What Mairsil, the Pretender actually does

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What a Mairsil, the Pretender deck wants

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Best cards for Mairsil, the Pretender

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A creature with an activated ability worth copying or borrowing

  1. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  2. Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince0 mana
  3. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  4. Dauthi Voidwalker2 mana
  5. Steel Overseer2 mana
  6. Cryptbreaker1 mana
  7. Gingerbrute1 mana
  8. Goblin Welder1 mana

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Displacer Kitten4 mana
  2. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  3. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  4. Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
  5. Y'shtola Rhul6 mana
  6. Escape Protocol2 mana
  7. Gandalf, Shadow's Foe7 mana
  8. Essence Flux1 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Bojuka Bog0 mana
  2. Chrome Mox0 mana
  3. Mystic Sanctuary0 mana
  4. Temple of Epiphany0 mana
  5. Bloodfell Caves0 mana
  6. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  7. Dimir Aqueduct0 mana
  8. Dismal Backwater0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Pongify1 mana
  4. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  5. Resculpt2 mana
  6. Defile1 mana
  7. Tragic Slip1 mana
  8. Suspend1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Displacement Wave2 mana
  5. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  6. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  7. Innocent Blood1 mana
  8. Breaking Point3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  6. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Liliana Vess // Liliana Vess0 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Black Market Connections3 mana
  7. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  8. Morbid Opportunist3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Gleaming Overseer3 mana
  3. Cryptothrall4 mana
  4. Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
  5. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  6. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  7. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  8. Eldrazi Monument5 mana

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