Lagrella Stax w/ combo finish

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive GWU (Bant) Infinite Combo Stax

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Land (30)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Spara's Headquarters
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Arcane Laboratory
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Deafening Silence
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rule of Law

Creature (23)

• 1x Archon of Emeria
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gaddock Teeg
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Vryn Wingmare
• 1x Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel

Artifact (9)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Neoform

Commander (1)

Instant (23)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Miscast
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns
• 1x Teferi, Master of Time

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Artifact (5)

• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Winter Orb

Creature (3)

• 1x Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Yasharn, Implacable Earth

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Root Maze
• 1x Stasis

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A little "before you read" for this, I play a lot of cEDH and have since before the pandemic, when EDH really really took off. The entire time I've always just played "the good deck" or copy and pasted someone else's already optimized deck. Of course like any good deck builder I would make tweaks to make it more of my own but this is the first deck I've built truly from the ground up. This deck is my idea, and the win con is a couple of combos I thought of on my own and I'm very proud of it. I'm going to post this deck list in a couple of forums and deck sites just to get opinions and see if anyone can point out something I missed. If you read it and comment, truly, I say thank you for taking the time to look this over and share your thoughts.

This is a {W}{U}{G} stax deck with a combo piece in the command zone. Stall until you have Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel or Lagrella, the Magpie and a Karmic Guide plus Altar of Dementia, Yannik or Lagrella etb exile Karmic Guide under one of them, sac the exiler to altar, karmic etb get the exiler back, mill out all your opponents!

Any blink creature plus Yannik/Lagrella = infinite power/toughness on your board. Example: Fiend Hunter to exile Lagrella, the Magpie, Cast Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel to exile Fiend Hunter, when Lagrella enters use her to exile Yannik. This gives all your other creatures +3/+3 and then you have a Lagrella trigger to take the Fiend Hunter. Do this as much as you'd like then take a different creature on board to stop the loop.

Freed from the Real + Faeburrow Elder/Bloom Tender is infinite mana so you can Altar of Dementia without needing another creature. (Just cast and sac Lagrella, the Magpie / Altar of Dementia.

The deck may want Tribute Mage to be a bit more consistent. Birthing Pod has plenty of advantage lines, pod your Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel into a Karmic Guide and boom, infinite ETBs (kind of). This is a line I'm a fan of, but can't think of any good payoff for infinite ETBs besides from maybe Glimpse of Nature into Thassa's Oracle but that seems tricky to pull off.

I put this "primer" together rather quickly, so I hope anyone who took the time to read this can clearly follow my train of thought. Any help or suggestions for ways to make the combo a bit more optimized would be appreciated. I've never built a stax deck, so I'm not sure how to balance hate cards plus value ways to win. And yes, the mana base could easily be more optimized, but I don't have any of the high end mana lands and I play in a lot of no proxy scenarios.

I really really think Bant is a color combo that gets ignored in cEDH and with the combo I'm trying to pull off having a commander that doubles as a combo piece or a situational hate piece, the deck has legs. At least in the blue farm Urza polymorph meta I have to play in.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.00
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Elk 3/3 G, Food