Quicksilver Elemental

Creature — Elemental

(Blue): Quicksilver Elemental gains all activated abilities of target creature until end of turn. (If any of the abilities use that creature's name, use this creature's name instead.)

You may spend blue mana as though it were mana of any color to pay the activation costs of Quicksilver Elemental's abilities.

Combos

• Gilded Lotus + Morphling + Quicksilver Elemental

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (47)

Gidgetimer on Mairsil and quicksilver elemental

1 year ago

Yes to the first two questions. You can target Mairsil and will get extra copies of the abilities, including the Quicksilver Elemental ability. After the first use of a tap ability (like on Gilded Lotus) Mairsil will be tapped, you will need to find a way untap her if you want to be able to use that ability again. In this scenario you could use Pili-Pala to untap and turn the 2 left over mana per iteration into 1. This adds an extra step but still allows you to go infinite if that is what you want to do.

420MensRightsActivist on Mairsil and quicksilver elemental

1 year ago

from the Quicksilver Elemental rulings on Gatherer:

"If you make two copies of an ability that can be activated once a turn, you can activate each of them once a turn."

so you'd be able to use the abilities again since it's technically treated as a separate ability, albeit one that does the same thing. as for going infinite with Gilded Lotus you would need a way of untapping your creature, at a minimum.

grennpowerhouse on Mairsil and quicksilver elemental

1 year ago

If Quicksilver Elemental is in exile with a cage counter can Mairsil, the Pretender Target herself with its ability and use all her abilities again. If so, does that include quicksilver elementals ability so I can repeat the process so Marsil is only limited by the amount of mana I have. Does she go infinite with abilities like Gilded Lotus’s abilities.

Thanks for the answers in advance

Rhadamanthus on How Oath of teferi interacts …

1 year ago

Right, it can just activate one loyalty ability per turn. Oath of Teferi only gives the special permission to planeswalkers, specifically.

Any object with loyalty abilities can activate them with the usual timing and once-per-turn restrictions. Normally only planeswalkers have loyalty abilities but it's possible for non-planeswalkers to get them. It usually involves turning a planeswalker into a creature somehow and going from there (Experiment Kraj, Quicksilver Elemental, etc.)

Dreeks1991 on Mairsil, The Pretender

1 year ago

Thanks for checking out my list! I hadn't updated my decks in a few months so I'm just seeing this now. So I kind of cover why I run so much additional protection in my build in the primer, but the short answer is that my playgroup is very heavy on removal and they know the best way to shut this deck down is to keep Mairsil off the board. AEtherling just doesn't cut it as the only source of protection. It's not meant to be a cEDH build and I doubt it could hang with a cEDH table lol. It's definitely on par with the power level of my playgroup though.

I prefer Spikeshot Elder over Hateflayer because it doesn't require Mairsil to be tapped to activate it, which is helpful outside of the Tree of Perdition combo because I can shoot down planeswalkers and creatures with just the three mana. I did use to run Hateflayer though! I also have a few other untap effects that are cheaper to use mana-wise and allow me to combo off with Quicksilver Elemental and Prismatic Geoscope and the cards they're on also provide a lot of other value.

In terms of the Walking Ballista combo, I use him as a wincon in my elfball deck so I'm not interested in using him again in another deck, although it is a solid wincon!

I used to do a lot of jankier stuff with Mairsil (hence the giant Maybeboard lol) but my group goes super hard on him anymore so he's gotta be a little more cutthroat and bare bones if I want to win with him, which I do!

OctaviusFalcon on Mairsil's Got an App for That

2 years ago

Zallce I'll be honest, I dismantled the deck a few years ago and probably don't have enough experience with it to give a ton of advice. Looking at the deck, I guess I would agree that Training Grounds isn't necessary, because a lot of my cards don't have very expensive abilities. As for the +1/+1 counter stuff, that's mostly to be used with Sage of Hours to take a bunch of turns. I also never really ended up exiling him a lot, because once you get the Quicksilver Elemental loop online, you have functionally infinite uses of his abilities and don't need to reset him. Hope you have fun playing it!

Named_Tawyny on Interaction between Quicksilver Elemental and …

3 years ago

Merieke Ri Berit 's second ability sets up a delayed trigger, but it is all one ability. Once it begins, it exists independently of it's source.

The words "Merieke Ri Berit" in the ability mean "This card", so they WOULD apply to the Quicksilver Elemental . When the Elemental becomes untapped (even after the end of the turn) the creature taken will be destroyed.

CamraMaan on Interaction between Quicksilver Elemental and …

3 years ago

When Quicksilver Elemental gains Merieke Ri Berit 's activated ability, does it keep her name in the ability, or replace it with Quicksilver's name...? Sorry, I'm reading some old rulings, so I'm not sure what today's rules say.