Derevi Stax Combo

Commander / EDH* Competitive GWU (Bant) Multiplayer Stax

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Land (30)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Recursion (4)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Karmic Guide

Stax Layer 5 Counterspells (4)

• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Swan Song

Mana (20)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Draw (10)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Loyal Drake
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1x Windfall

Stax Layer 2 Come into Play Tapped (3)

• 1x Kismet
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Root Maze

Stax Layer 3 Hate (3)

• 1x Archon of Valor's Reach
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator

Commander (1)

Tutors (11)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Trinket Mage

Stax Layer 1 Taxers (7)

• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Trinisphere

Stax Layer 4 Restrict Untaps (4)

• 1x Hokori, Dust Drinker
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Winter Orb

Stax Layer 6 Removal (3)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Gilded Drake

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This is a midrange Derevi stax-combo variant focused on stalling the game until it can close with Stasis or combo out with Altar of the Brood. It's built to slow down fast combo and drag games out into the late-game with layers of stax pieces. Our goal is to limit our opponents' access to their resources running asymmetrical stax pieces; they hurt our opponents, us less so. We try to break gameplans while advancing ours towards a finish. Our priority is to get resources online and find at least one stax piece to slow our opponents down while landing our best engine piece Pod. Our most efficient stax line is through Birthing Pod: double Archon or a sequence of GAIV, Sakashima/Spark Double, Glen Elendra, and Hokori is usually sufficient to gain insurmountable board control. If we want to attempt to combo out use Altar of the Brood with Felidar and a clone. There are also various lines with Eldrazi Displacer. We can also entice opponents to tap out by playing a wheel effect (with a taxer on the board) and then dropping an orb effect to swing control of the table back to us.

Top Ranked	Achieved #35 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 60 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.43
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U
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