Estrid Stax

Commander / EDH* Competitive Enchantment GWU (Bant) Stax

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Enchantment (34)

• 1x Abundant Growth
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Dawn's Reflection
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Embargo
• 1x Enchantress's Presence
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Ground Seal
• 1x Humility
• 1x Kismet
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Nylea's Presence
• 1x Oath of Teferi
• 1x Overgrowth
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Root Maze
• 1x Squirrel Nest
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Stony Silence
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Urban Burgeoning
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Weirding Wood
• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Words of Wind

Artifact (4)

• 1x Static Orb
• 1x The Chain Veil
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Winter Orb

Land (33)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Fortified Village
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 1x Teferi, Temporal Archmage

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun

Commander (1)

Instant (13)

• 1x Bant Charm
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Voidslime
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Creature (12)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Argothian Enchantress
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Hokori, Dust Drinker
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Satyr Enchanter
• 1x Tuvasa the Sunlit
• 1x Verduran Enchantress

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Enchantment (11)

• 1x Arcane Laboratory
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Energy Flux
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Rule of Law
• 1x Trade Routes
• 1x Unbridled Growth
• 1x Wellspring

Land (3)

• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of Plenty

Creature (1)

• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence

Instant (1)

• 1x Stifle

Artifact (3)

• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Tangle Wire

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Replenish

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Experimenting with Stax

This is an experiment in CEDH stax building. I'm not a veteran at CEDH, so please let me know what you think.

I think this deck might be viable because it Estrid compares favourably to Teferi, Temporal Archmage. Estrid's +2 can be used to break stax parody in a similar way as Teferi's -1. She also has access to some incredible stax pieces in white and ramp in green.

The goal is to combine an interaction package, a stax package, an enchantress package, and a ramp package, and a few different win cons (because everyone likes games that end!).

One of the primary challenges I'm having at this stage is finding the balance between these for my meta.

This deck is based on a deck by zwells3, Estrid's Enchantments and Stax Extravaganza.

Decree of Silence and Solemnity also seems like a good lock.

Win Cons: Estrid, the Masked + some enchanted lands that tap for at least 5 mana + The Chain Veil = infinite mana. Activate Estrid to put a mask on the Chain Veil. Tap your enchanted lands for 5 mana. Use 4 mana to activate The Chain Veil. Activate Estrid to untap all your enchanted permanents, net 1 mana. Repeat.

Teferi, Temporal Archmage also combos with The Chain Veil, Words of Wind and enchanted lands for infinite mana and infinite Draw.

These loops can also generate infinite squirrels with Squirrel Nest, and Concordant Crossroads to win. Earthcraft + Squirrel Nest, and Concordant Crossroads also generates infinite hasty squirrels to win.

With infinite mana, you can use an enchantress and Words of Wind to bounce and replay a card draw enchantment like Abundant Growth, or Ground Seal to draw through your deck and win off Laboratory Maniac,Blind Obedience, or put together the squirrel nest combo. This also works with more than one enchantress, as long as you are net drawing more than one card.

Single Card Discussion: Back to Basics - Does this deck want it? Would something like Embargo be better? It seems like Back to Basics runs counter to my Hermit Druid + Laboratory Maniac alt win con since I can't run basics, then again maybe it doesn't hurt me that much.

Garruk Wildspeaker - I admit it. I love Garruk. He is probably my favourite walker. He helps ramp and break parity with the stax pieces, but he doesn't go infinite with The Chain Veil sooo how good is he?

Land Tax - how good is this? It's insane with Burgeoning and Exploration. However it means that I can't run Hermit Druid

Hermit Druid + Laboratory Maniac - Maybe this combo is holding me back? It seems like it gives me an easily tutored win con if things with Estrid go sideways. Are there better alt win cons?

Approach of the Second Sun - Seems like a reliable 1 card win con with infinite mana and infinite draw.

Trade Routes - I'm a sucker for value. It seems like with Exploration and Burgeoning this could be good, but maybe not good enough. Maybe I'll test it.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 63 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.54
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Clue, Emblem Teferi, Temporal Archmage, Mask, Squirrel 1/1 G
Based on	Estrid's Enchantments and Stax Extravaganza zwells3 EDH