Magus of the Abyss, Chains of Mephistopheles, Sylvan Scrying, Nether Void, The Abyss perhaps :D

Fleshbag Marauder ;)

Thanks SpookyTerry you are a bit spooky.

More lands?

Yeah NecroPony I'm updating as I go. Still building it now.

I know, next to nothing about stax, and it seems a bit weird, but Seshiro the Anointed, perhaps. Card advantage and a buff for your snakes. Additionally, the altars; Phyrexian Altar and Ashnod's Altar.

NecroPony will definitely be putting the altars in, good suggestion. I'll try out the other card also as the buff will keep them from dying when they get counters.

The undersung uncounterable transmute tutors?

Dimir House Guard, Brainspoil, Shred Memory, etc.

Oh hey, you built your own! :) I saw you upvoted my Toxic Relationship: Hapatra EDH list, haha.

A few quick notes on your list:

I've found Fevered Convulsions to be slow. REALLY slow, and expensive in terms of mana. I simply never had the mana available to make it efficient.

Thelon's Chant seems...odd. I think I see what you're doing - use it as an excuse to put -1/-1 counters on your creatures - but it just seems inefficient for that purpose (unless your meta has a lot of black).

I ended up pulling Contamination from my list because it shut down my access to green a little too effectively. It's an amazing stax card, though, so I think you should keep it. Just add more creatures and artifacts that can produce green to sidestep its restrictions (notably, Golgari Signet).

I prefer Static Orb over Winter Orb...though play both if you have space.

You might get away with adding a Necrotic Ooze combo?

Also, what is Entomb there for? Seems like a weird pick here. Is it only for Animate Dead?

Nest of Scarabs is almost strictly better than Flourishing Defenses for you.

Let me know how the deck works for you! :) I'd appreciate any suggestions you may have for my list as well.

I think running more infect cards might work to your benefit because they can also give your opponents poison counters if they aren't careful. You might not want to run these cards if you like to play in the background because more often then not, you will paint a target on your back as soon as you drop a creature with infect.

Necroskitter seems strong, and Corrosive Mentor would give your black creatures wither to make more snakes, though they unfortunately wouldn't benefit. Hex Parasite can eat some of the counters you put on your own creatures, so you don't kill too much of your own stuff, and can let you eat Smokestack counters to make it even more one sided than it already is.

This looks like a great way to use this new legend...my first thought when it was spoilered was "oh no, I might have to build another stax list in GB now" but I wasn't sure about how to do it. My main concern was that it isn't effective against creatureless opponents because you rely on putting counters on creatures, counters having a negative effect, you know...usually you don't want to put these on your own creatures.

You play a lot of creatures yourself, so you will have targets for counters, but I can see some bad interactions there. I wouldn't play mana dorks with Cursed Totem but replace them with mana artifacts. you are still missing Sol Ring, Mox Diamond, Chrome Mox, Lotus Petal, Mox Opal, Mana Vault, Grim Monolith, Voltaic Key, Coalition Relic, maybe Mind Stone and Golgari Signet. You are good to go with 32 or 33 lands then and you can also cut the mana creatures - it's faster and more reliable imo.

Harbinger of Night is an interesting card, but in this build...I don't know if that works. I see that you have Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat, so you might be able to pull off a one time trick with that: harbinger + commander, have them both survive one turn (does that happen?) to get tokens equal to the number of creatures on the table, then play blood artist and have them survive another turn (!) so harbinger kills all the tokens again and everyone loses much life. Honestly, I don't see that happen in a multiplayer game PLUS it only does much if there are already a lot of creatures out.

Thank you for all the suggestions everyone. At this point the deck is just a starting point.

Daedalus19876 When I saw Hapatra spoiled I knew I wanted to build something around her. I think seeing your deck a couple of days ago definitely inspired me. My meta is becoming a lot more cutthroat and my other decks are pretty much as insane as I can get them so stax seemed like a great way to go with this deck.

So I put Entomb in as a way to tutor some of the bigger creatures to reanimate early in the game.

I think i'll keep contamination but add some mana artifacts so I still have access to green. It's just too funny not to play.

Thelon's chant I figure will grab some counters or bits of damage if I have urborg in play as everyone will be playing swamps haha.

Nest of Scarabs is definitely a good call.

I will take another look at your deck definitely and see if I can spot anything I might add.

Winterblast I was thinking the same about the dorks, they're also going to die pretty quickly with all the counters flying about so artifacts are the way to go. Thanks for the suggestions with those.

Harbinger of Night I included for that reason exactly but come to think of it, it will kill them just like the dorks too. Will be cutting.

Also Daedalus19876 Necrotic Ooze combos did cross my mind but I think I want to take this in a different direction. It's one of those combos that everyone has seen and people expect it.

Neotrup will definitely put Necroskitter in there. Will be great with Smokestack

VesuvanDoppelbanger all great cards. Not sure what I would cut for them tbh. List is getting tighter.

Mikeaus + Rendclaw Trow + any sac outlet + Hapatra = Infinite Snakes

Could you check out my standard hapatra deck.

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KaraZorEl that's a 4 card combo in a 100 card singleton format...and it doesn't even kill instantly. Mikaeus and Triskelion or Walking Ballista is a two card combo that doesn't need any further help - I would rather put these into the deck than a clunky 4 card trick.

How is Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Walking Ballista a combo? Also, while Rendclaw Trow isn't great, the proposed combo works with any persist creature, which you already run two. Also, sac outlets seem like they'd synergies with the deck, you already have a few, and Mind Slash is worth at least considering. With the fourth card being your commander, it's not a wholly unreasonable combo to have in your mind, though it's already in the deck, so no modification necessary.

Winterblast it isn't too hard to set up, could just run Insidious Dreams to tutor all the pieces but I think I would rather find a space for Psychosis Crawler in the deck and tutor up Food Chain combo bits and just win.

Speaking of the Food Chain combo, what's the win condition with that? Also, is Food Chain the sort of card you'd include if not for the combo? Eternal Scourge seems bad, if if the combo just wins, and it's the only peice your forcing into the deck for the combo, it's not bad, just annoying to weak draw when you're nowhere near the combo. If he combo is only "infinite mana to be spent only on creature spells" and both cards are pretty dead, I'd take them both out.

Neotrup it was originally in there for infinite mana for creatures and draw with Elemental Bond but the more I have been thinking about it the more I either want to add Psychosis Crawler or remove the whole lot. The only thing putting me off adding crawler is the fact it's a four card combo so I probably will be removing it all.

Neotrup also tokens could be sacked to Food Chain for mana so not totally useless on its own.