Mairsil, the Pretender

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Name	Mairsil, the Pretender
Type	Legendary creature — human wizard
Description	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 See more
Artist	Izzy
Set	Commander 2017 #41
Wallpaper	download
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About Mairsil, the Pretender

Mairsil, the Pretender, Legendary creature — human wizard, designed by Izzy first released in Aug, 2017 in the set Commander 2017. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of A$ 1.55. It's a key card in 29 combos.

A Grixis control deck that focuses on graveyard recursion and combo potential would benefit from including Mairsil, the Pretender as a versatile and powerful commander option. While there are other powerful cards in Magic: the Gathering that offer similar abilities, such as Atraxa, Praetors' Voice and The Scarab God, Mairsil's unique ability to access multiple activated abilities at once can lead to explosive plays and unexpected synergies, making it a strong contender for inclusion in certain decks where its potential can be maximized.

Rules

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Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keyword abilities (such as equip) are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. Mairsil won’t gain triggered abilities (which start with “when,” “whenever,” or “at”).

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If Mairsil gains an activated ability that’s normally linked to another activated ability of the card it came from, those two abilities Mairsil gains are linked for as long as Mairsil remains on the battlefield. For example, if Mairsil exiles Izzet Chemister, cards exiled with the first ability Mairsil gained from Izzet Chemister can be cast if you activate the second ability it gained that way. Izzet Chemister itself can’t be cast this way, and if Mairsil leaves the battlefield before activating that second ability, the cards exiled with that first ability are lost forever.

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If Mairsil has an equip ability, activating it won’t cause anything to happen. Mairsil doesn’t become attached to a creature. They may remain friends.

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If one of Mairsil’s abilities doesn’t resolve, most likely because its target became illegal before it resolved, it can’t be activated again in the same turn.

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If you have a creature enter the battlefield as a copy of Mairsil, its first ability triggers. You won’t be able to activate any abilities before the “legend rule” applies, but the triggered ability will still let you exile another card with a cage counter regardless of which Mairsil you keep.

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The exiled cards remain exiled with cage counters when Mairsil leaves the battlefield. If Mairsil returns to the battlefield, it will see all of those exiled cards with cage counters on them.

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