Lavinia's Stax Nightmare

Commander / EDH Competitive Control Enchantment Hatebears Show and Tell Stax WU (Azorius)

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Enchantment (21)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Decree of Silence
• 1x Diplomatic Immunity
• 1x Dream Halls
• 1x Eye of the Storm
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Opalescence
• 1x Overburden
• 1x Phyrexian Unlife
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Solemnity *f-pre*
• 1x Stony Silence

Creature (9)

• 1x Archon of Emeria
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Lost Auramancers
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Dovin, Hand of Control
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

Land (31)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Blast Zone *f-pre*
• 1x Cascading Cataracts
• 1x Cave of the Frost Dragon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip
• 9x Island
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 5x Plains
• 1x Skycloud Expanse

Artifact (12)

• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Helm of Obedience
• 1x Kill Switch
• 1x Knowledge Pool
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Omen Machine
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box

Commander (1)

Instant (15)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Rebuff the Wicked
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Cleansing Nova *f-pre*
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Show and Tell
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Wrath of God

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Sideboard

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Energy Flux
• 1x Equipoise
• 1x Ivory Mask
• 1x Precognition Field
• 1x Rising Waters
• 1x Soothsaying
• 1x Stasis

Creature (6)

• 1x Azor's Elocutors
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Marble Titan
• 1x Unsettled Mariner

Artifact (2)

• 1x Void Mirror
• 1x Winter Orb

Instant (1)

• 1x Hurkyl's Recall

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Maybeboard

Artifact (4)

• 1x Mindlock Orb
• 1x Pearl Medallion
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Winged Boots

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
• 1x Teferi, Time Raveler

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Secret Rendezvous

Instant (4)

• 1x Gush
• 1x Interdict
• 1x Intervene
• 1x Suspend

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Energy Field

Creature (2)

• 1x Judge's Familiar
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Land (2)

• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Glacial Chasm

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Lavinia is a fantastic hatebear with numerous hardlock interactions with cards that recast opponents spells out of hand or for 0 mana. Lavinia synergises perfectly with land destruction tactics (letting her lock out non-creature cards with CMC above opponents' number of lands), and cost increasing effects. This deck aims to be a very rude anti-meta deck that can slowly spiral out of control in some fun way.

Features: Counterspells, draws, tutors, and removal shell with almost NO rocks. Numerous stax and anti-artifact pieces to target rocks and make tax / land removal extra painful.

Wincons:

We create a hardlock or hellish boardstate for opponents:

{WU} Show and Tell or Dream Halls and play the deck out with Omniscience or drop Decree of Silence with Solemnity -> Opalescence , Armageddon.

{WU} Helm of Obedience + Rest in Peace to deck people out.

Interesting interactions:

Lavinia, Azorius Renegade , Drannith Magistrate -(With)-> Omen Machine , Knowledge Pool , Dream Halls , Eye of the Storm

-Opponents casting for free get countered or cant be played from hand, looks to soft or hardlock the game. Mass land destruction locks our opponents out of casting when we no longer require lands-

Solemnity + Phyrexian Unlife , Decree of Silence , Mystic Remora, Glen Elendra Archmage , Lost Auramancers.

-Immortality, infinite counters hardlock, no tax, infinite {U} counters, instant Omniscience or Decree of Silence-

Narset, Parter of Veils + Windfall , Teferi's Puzzle Box

-Empty hands-

Kill Switch, Stony Silence, Aura of Silence, Null Rod

-We want to punish activated abilities on artifacts unless we can get our Helm of Obedience quick and I removed the rocks from this list to run as many as possible. Alternatively you could run an optimal rock package with just Kill Switch as you can tap down artifacts for the round and still use your own rocks before activating it-

Opalescence

-wincon after lock-

Drift of Phantasms, Muddle the Mixture

-Finds most of our combo pieces/tutors and stuff like Null Rod

Counterbalance + various top deck manipulation cards or luck

-You could cut this but I think it's funny-

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 14 Rares 16 - 2 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.83
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G