Maralen The Sneak

Commander / EDH* Mono-Black Stax

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Artifact (28)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Dark Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Jester's Cap
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Winter Orb

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

Land (33)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Strip Mine
• 20x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Sadistic Sacrament
• 1x Sickening Dreams
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Instant (8)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Cast Down
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Withering Boon

Commander (1)

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Waste Not
• 1x Wound Reflection

Creature (9)

• 1x Archfiend of Despair
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Plaguecrafter

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This is a stax deck designed for you to tutor out your essential stax cards early and force your opponents to discard. Don't play if you don't like losing friends fast. This is a pretty flexible deck, so if you don't get whichever combo you wanted, you'll have a few more to look at right around the corner, and a few late game ones in your back pocket too. Whether it's exiling your opponents' decks with card:Jester Cap and recurring it with Elixir of Immortality or doing one of the regular exile or discard combos, or even going for an Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond combo, this deck has many different ways to win the game, and plenty of stax mechanics to slow your opponents down from winning the game before you do. Cuz y'know. Global tutoring.

Overall Maralen is an inherently risky deck. Allowing your opponents to tutor for whatever they want and for them all to do it before you do is seemingly terrible when you think about it. It's nowhere near overpowered or broken but with how many ways you have to slow your enemies down and give them lots of trouble before finally executing a big game-winning combo, you can still win games despite this.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.84
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	black