Is Mairsil, the Pretender Worth Revisiting 5 Years Later? 

My favorite commander. Once you have a cage counter on aetherling, Marsil is never dying. I’d also like to shout out the original sakishima, as since it doesn’t share Marsil’s name you can get around pithing needle effects.

Pendant of prosperity was such a good addition to the deck

When the deck box comes out, the table knows what time it is 😈

I love how strange mairsil builds are. There are a bunch of unconventional combinations that become outrageously powerful when put on the same body (and it can be tricky to interact with for your opponents)! I will say that this commander can be one of the most difficult to pilot IMO

This video gave me an interesting new idea for a Commander deck, never thought of Mairsil as such an interesting Commander

I've always wanted to make mairsil since I got inalla but never got the pieces and I have too many grixis decks

I've been playing this commander almost since he came out and love him! Happy to see him getting some love for a change xD Truly an underappreciated commander.

Love my mairsil deck. Thousand-year elixir, hammerfist giant, Heartless hidetsugu, teferi master of time, goblin engineer

I love this deck, and I've played it a lot, so I think I know the ins and outs fairly well. Crypt rats also works excellently in this deck, 3b for 3 damage to each creature and player and there's so much to combo with an effect like that. Endling to give it deathtouch for a boardwipe, cabal initiative for lifelink (my main win con has been worldfire + flicker with aetherling + crypt rat effect + lifelink to survive). Last time I played I managed some 30 clones with pack rat and mirror box.

Mairsil seems like he could be devastating if played right, and I always wanted to play in those colors so... Guess I'm building him

I do have a Marsil deck and sometimes its good to be the archenemy at the table. Nevinyrral Disk and Cavern Harpy are a must in this deck.

Well done on building this deck, I've been holding onto Mairdsil for years and have never had the brain power to put together a synergistic deck.

He's one of my top 5 most powerful Comander

Ufff thank you!!!!!!!! Just what I wanted

I loved this deck.. Mairsil it's such an unique commander. Great video

kuldotha forgemaster with mairsil is so fun. You can rush out a blightsteel Colossus pretty easily.

By far one of my favorite decks, but I'm trying to go different directions with him. Every once in while a new worthwhile piece gets printed, but with such a good typical shell, it's hard to stray too much without making him strictly worse. I love the deck, but I'm also kind of bothered by "solved" decks. I'm thinking of just making him a glorified Grenzo Dungeon Master deck, with Canal Dredger or Junktroller, once Grenzo and one of those are caged, you have a Grenzo deck with permanent access to bottom of library manipulation. Could be fun with the protection/haste/untap shell.

I love Mairsil, but I went for burn and sac theme. Couple of cloning effects like Molten Echoes, Spark Double and Jaxis from New Capenna. Endling and Bloodfire Colossus is kind of the win con, Basilisk Collar or Whip of Erebos for mad life gain with 6 damage to every creature and player and to negate self burn. Brash taunter and Stuffy Doll for extra damage. Also added void mirror and knowledge pool lock, since ideally I won't be casting any spells, just activating abilities which more often than not result in a board wipe. No Aetherling, Quicksilver Elemental or pack rat, since I get Mairsil triggers with every undying shenanigans that I pull off. Instant speed sacrifice am I right ❤️🌶️

Great commander from an amazing pre-con.

Could you revisit marchesa from the same precon

He is much much better now.

Places Mairsil* Me: HABIDI KABIDI

He's still a great commander.

Nothing beats my Cromat deck with a Mutate theme

Amarinthe wall and nevinyeyarels (?) disk. Mairisil becomes indestructible and then destroy all artifacts creatures and enchantments. Great way to stall the game

Does pendant of prosperity give you double the bonus or…nah?

they call him THE JANK MASTER

Seems fun, but I tend to pass on decks that work only around the commander, sometimes your guy gets locked out the game by a magistrate or stuff and you end up watching them play instead

Built him out, can confirm it can casually hold down a table of 5 (if given the chance to cage 3, depending on what cards they are, its gg.) Sage of hours infinite is too easy in it. Blink with aetherling strategically. Nivs disk aether you get the point. Tree of perdition too, which is just rude, but fun to pull. I run mairsil when its everyone against me. Sorta like when theres built out dragons on the table, slivers, you know neck beard contenders. Bad merfolk angels etc. Its good against those, just be wary of straight damage hate, I generally try to glacial chasm and end it before then.

Mirror mad phantasm is so incredibly broken is this deck. That is all.

Is there any primer for this commander? Im interested to visit it again.

Does pack rat make a Marsil copy or a rat copy?

This is one of those wacky cards that makes me itch to buy all the pieces. Last guy who made me feel that was Ink-Treader. Mairsil actually looking so cool!

If you can get Asmodeus and Skirge Familiar with either Mairsil or Necrotic Ooze then you have infinite draw your deck. You just need a Shuffle Eldrazi effect or Thassa's Oracle for the win

For sure. I want to build mine around Asmodeus