Mono-Red Stax? How Heartless [War]

Commander / EDH* Combo Mono-Red Stax

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Aid (23)

• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Glacial Crevasses
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mercadian Atlas
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Voltaic Key

Control (5)

• 1x Burnout
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Planar Chaos
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast

Land (21)

• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Great Furnace
• 19x Snow-Covered Mountain

Wheel (1)

• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Ramp (19)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Scrying Sheets
• 1x Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Wipe (10)

• 1x Decree of Annihilation
• 1x Devastation
• 1x Impending Disaster
• 1x Jokulhaups
• 1x Puppet's Verdict
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Tectonic Break
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Wasteland

Pain (1)

• 1x Dragonmaster Outcast

Commander (1)

Stax (19)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Damping Engine
• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Lodestone Golem
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Mana Web
• 1x Orb of Dreams
• 1x Price of Glory
• 1x Smoke
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Storage Matrix
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Tectonic Instability
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Uphill Battle
• 1x War's Toll
• 1x Winter Orb

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Sideboard

Other (7)

• 1x Damping Matrix
• 1x Inquisitor's Flail
• 1x Insult / Injury
• 1x Obsidian Fireheart
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Thoughts of Ruin
• 1x Treasure Nabber

Control (3)

• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Fork
• 1x Reiterate

Sideboard (1)

• 1x Arena of the Ancients

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Maybeboard

Aid (24)

• 1x Aether Vial
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Diviner's Wand
• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Hostility
• 1x Krark's Thumb
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1x Radiate
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte
• 1x Wild Ricochet
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Wheel (5)

• 1x Incendiary Command
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Wheel of Fate

Control (2)

• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Null Brooch

Pain (21)

• 1x Ashling the Pilgrim
• 1x Browbeat
• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Crown of Flames
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Fault Line
• 1x Fiery Gambit
• 1x Goblin Assault
• 1x Harsh Mentor
• 1x Iron Maiden
• 1x Molten Disaster
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Pyrostatic Pillar
• 1x Rolling Earthquake
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 1x Vicious Shadows
• 1x Warstorm Surge

Ramp (7)

• 1x Braid of Fire
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Koth of the Hammer
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal

Land (2)

• 1x Mercadian Bazaar
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Stax (20)

• 1x Ashling's Prerogative
• 1x Blood Sun
• 1x Chalice of the Void
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Feroz's Ban
• 1x Grip of Chaos
• 1x Icy Manipulator
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Mishra's Helix
• 1x Noetic Scales
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Portcullis
• 1x Possessed Portal
• 1x Quicksilver Fountain
• 1x Sands of Time
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Storm Cauldron
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Tsabo's Web

Wipe (12)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Boil
• 1x Dust Bowl
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Mogg Assassin
• 1x Myojin of Infinite Rage
• 1x Obliterate
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Ring of Valkas
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

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Test of cards that suit my fancy.

Tried Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs as commander in playtesting. Definitely more stax-y but takes away a primary win-con.

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??? - Treasure Nabber

??? - Furnace of Rath

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If Blue control isn't in play:

Burnout - Dualcaster Mage

Pyroblast - Fork

Red Elemental Blast - Reiterate

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Arena of the Ancients + Damping Matrix is sideboard for decks in my playgroup that voltron a win from commander.

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(THIS IS NO LONGER VALID WITH PARADOX GETTING THE BAN HAMMER. KEEPING IT IN DESCRIPTION FOR OLD'S SAKE)

Darksteel Citadel + Mana Vault + Mox Opal + Seething Song + Paradox Engine + Basilisk Collar + Lightning Greaves + Insult / Injury + Heartless Hidetsugu = Turn 1 win (Don't equip collar for turn 1 mass suicide!)

Provided you have a way to survive ( Basilisk Collar / Glacial Chasm ) in hand with enough rocks to summon commander turn 1 ( Mana Vault / Mox Opal / Basalt Monolith / Gilded Lotus / Sol Ring ) then you can win turn 2. Other way is to use mana rocks to create more mana rocks turn 1, then summon commander for turn 2 win provided you have a way to haste ( Lightning Greaves ).

I'm not running Seething Song or Lightning Greaves as the possibility of drawing 7+1 cards on the first turn that equal a turn 1 win is 1/171,200,862,756 so I'm not holding my breath. But it's possible! Getting good rocks turn 1 for a turn 2 commander play, and turn 3 tapping with Furnace of Rath + a savior ( Basilisk Collar / Glacial Chasm ) is much more likely, comparatively. Otherwise, stax opponents until you can get a preferable board.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 1 Mythic Rares 49 - 8 Rares 19 - 1 Uncommons 5 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.95
Tokens	Dragon 5/5 R, Goat 0/1 W, Ogre 3/3 R