Parasite

by ElectrickWarlok on 21 October 2019

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Creatures (1)

Main Deck (99 cards)

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Deck Description

Theme based on the character Parasite from DC Comics. Parasite steals the abilities of anyone he touches. Mairsil steals the abilities of anyone or anything he cages. So that's as close to Parasite in Magic as I think I could get it. Parasite = Mairsil, the Pretender.

Overhauled on 6/15/2020.

My casual play group doesn't use any ban list and allows silver-bordered cards. You'll need to make adjustments if your group doesn't allow the same.

How to Play

You win by caging Heartless Hidetsugu and Crypt Rats. You need Jorubai Murk Lurker on the battlefield or caged.

1) Give Mairsil, the Pretender, lifelink using Jorubai Murk Lurker's activated ability.
2) Activate Heartless Hidetsugu's ability to cut you and your opponent's life totals in half. You'll gain life equal to the damage dealth.
3) Repeat step 2 each turn until your opponents' life totals are low enough that you can finish them off with the Crypt Rats' activated ability.
4) Activate the Crypt Rats' ability to do enough damage to finish off your opponents.

There's plenty of "search" to help you get those three cards as quickly as possible.

But only going for those three cards leaves you and Mairsil extremely vulnerable so there are other cards to cage that help him stay alive long enough to pull off the win.

Horror of the Dim gives Mairsil Hexproof.
Amaranathine Wall, indestructible.
Arcanis, the Omnipotent, bounces and gives you some draw power as an added bonus.
Deepfire Elemental gets rid of opposing artifacts and creatures.
Endling gives Mairsil Deathtouch. Combine that with Crypt Rats' ability and you can take out every creature on the battlefield.
Greater Morphling gives Mairsil the option of an array of keyword abilities plus color-changing and untapping (which allows use of multiple tap-abilities in the same turn).
Shauku, Endbringer, gets rid of creatures (including indestructible ones) and pumps up Mairsil as a bonus.
Spellskite and Torchling together allows you to control the target of any single-target spell.
Twisted Abomination regenerates Mairsil.
Volrath, the Fallen, pumps up Mairsil.

There are multiple cards that create temporary token copies of Mairsil so you can cage more cards more often.

Deck Tags

  • Commander
  • Fun
  • Multicolor
  • Black
  • Blue
  • Red
  • Combo
  • Casual

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Deck Format


Commander

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

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