Honestly people are really sitting in Magical Christmas land with this guy... the only way his ability can be used with even remote frequency is if you mill yourself. But then we are in a catch 22. In order for his ability to have the most oomph, you need a lot of legendaries. But in order to use his reanimating ability with any frequency, you need to fill up the yard, but thosevery same self mill cards are rarely legendary... meaning you need to stock up on more non-legendary spells.
This guy is a big old catch 22...
Not really? At the start of a game he's useful because he cheapens your overall deck. Five drops on four and so on. If you get into a late game with him then you have resources to burn out of your yard.
Also not a catch-22 because you can just run Dredge with him and be gross that way.
Have to agree with you, even if the reanimation ability is basically just trinket text the cost reduction is the real value. And late game the reanimation is a reward for playing redundant copies of legendary cards in 60 card magic.
There was a big ruckus when he was revealed about how his ability should work as written, versus what was intended.
Basically people interpreted it as written as once you copy his abilities (via Quicksilver Elemental, for example), the "once per turn" clause goes away and you can do infinite combos super easy. However as was clarified here, I believe: https://twitter.com/EliShffrn/status/897894399329222656, the once per turn clause is tacked onto each ability of the caged cards. So copying Mairsil's abilities will also copy the "once per turn" clause.
I remember that ruckuss, but it wasn't due to ambiguity on Mairsil - it was due to people who didn't understad how Quicksilver Elemental worked. I mean, we've had clarification on that for 15 years now. All they had to do was look up Quicksilver Elemental on Gatherer:
10/4/2004 - If you make two copies of an ability that can be activated once a turn, you can activate each of them once a turn.
I remember that ruckuss, but it wasn't due to ambiguity on Mairsil - it was due to people who didn't understad how Quicksilver Elemental worked. I mean, we've had clarification on that for 15 years now. All they had to do was look up Quicksilver Elemental on Gatherer:
10/4/2004 - If you make two copies of an ability that can be activated once a turn, you can activate each of them once a turn.
Oh that silly human race for thinking Magic has complicated interactions. Ridiculous really. I mean I don't even know why we need judges for rules clarification? Seems like everything is pretty, pretty, pretty self explanatory.
I'm just being a little sarcastic for a joke, before I get a troll warning. I post for answers in the rules forum and often I'll get people just quoting paragraphs of the rules, and that doesn't actually help a person like me.
Some of us need it to be said in terms of real interactions. Sure we could look up the official rules, but it looks like goobly goop for 90% of the population.
Have to agree with you, even if the reanimation ability is basically just trinket text the cost reduction is the real value. And late game the reanimation is a reward for playing redundant copies of legendary cards in 60 card magic.
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I'm just being a little sarcastic for a joke, before I get a troll warning. I post for answers in the rules forum and often I'll get people just quoting paragraphs of the rules, and that doesn't actually help a person like me.
Some of us need it to be said in terms of real interactions. Sure we could look up the official rules, but it looks like goobly goop for 90% of the population.
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