Daxos The Returned - Prison of Pillows

Commander / EDH* Enchantment Pillow Fort Stax WB (Orzhov)

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Land (38)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Kor Haven
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 5x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Strip Mine
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath

Artifact (4)

• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel

Enchantment (30)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Banishing Light
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Crackdown
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Gossamer Chains
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Greater Auramancy
• 1x Greed
• 1x Hallowed Haunting
• 1x Humility
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Myth Realized
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Planar Collapse
• 1x Seal of Cleansing
• 1x Sigil of the Empty Throne
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x The Birth of Meletis
• 1x Underworld Connections

Instant (5)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Commander (1)

Creature (12)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Auramancer
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Emeria Shepherd
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Heliod, God of the Sun
• 1x Heliod's Pilgrim
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Monk Idealist
• 1x Oreskos Explorer
• 1x Starfield Mystic
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Replenish
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Wrath of God

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Sideboard

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Lethal Vapors
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Moat
• 1x Rule of Law

Land (1)

• 1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Artifact (1)

• 1x Helm of Obedience

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Arrest
• 1x Aurification
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Debtors' Knell
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Leyline of Sanctity
• 1x Lightmine Field
• 1x Martyr's Bond
• 1x Opalescence
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Prison Term
• 1x Underworld Dreams

Creature (4)

• 1x Magus of the Moat
• 1x Magus of the Tabernacle
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Windborn Muse

Land (1)

• 1x Leechridden Swamp

Artifact (1)

• 1x Torpor Orb

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Rout

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Soft and comforting, until it chokes you to death!

Welcome to my Daxos the Returned Pillowfort/Stax deck.

The premise of the deck is to use pillow fort aspects to become the least attractive target at the table, look to build up your board whilst managing the table with spot removal and sweepers, then look to try and lock out the opponent or beat them to death with tokens or combo them out.

Unfortunately my EDH meta isn't overly competitive, which has meant that I have deliberately steered away from having too heavy a Stax element as most people at the shop wouldn't find that fun.

The main lock that tends to happen with the deck when you can get Greater Auramancy, Karmic Justice and Sphere of Safety together, which then allows you to beat people to death with Luminarch Ascension tokens, or combo them out with Sanguine Bond & Exquisite Blood. Daxos himself is more a secondary win con, I like to get him out early as most people consider him low impact, its not unreasonable for him to get 6-8 loyalty counters pretty easily before a board wipe which means your able to use him effectively in the late game.

The biggest issue I've found with the deck are decks that don't want to interact rather just combo off, decks like Purphoros can really cause some issues; if a deck like that appears across the table I tend to try and engineer the table against them as their game plan trumps ours in a one on one match up as they don't look to interact with you and your permanents much.

Thanks for taking the time to drop in and have a look at the deck. If you have any comments or critiques I'll be more than happy to field them, this deck has gone through a number of iterations so far and I'm sure can always be improved!

Cards I'm considering cutting:

Debtors' Knell - Boat loads of fun, but glacially slow

Crystal Chimes - Putting things to hand is great, but quite slow, typically if your having to use it your about to die anyway.

Elspeth, Sun's Champion - Normally comes down as a board wipe, and is slow as win con

NOTES: Maybe board = things that I am/have considered Side board = things which I think will be too stax based/expensive to buy

Date added	8 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 5 Rares 15 - 1 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.02
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Enchantment Cleric 2/1 W, Enchantment Spirit */* WB, Experience Token, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Spirit Cleric */* W, Treasure, Wall 0/4 C
Folders	EDH Templetes, EDH, Daxos, Maybe..., Daxos, Deck Inspiration, Toolbox/Reference