Maxing the Staxing

Commander / EDH Control Enchantment GWUB Sacrifice Stax Superfriends Tap/Untap

mlequesne

Land (34)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Forest
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Plains
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Damn
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Ravages of War
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wrath of God

Enchantment (17)

• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Nature's Will
• 1x Parallax Wave
• 1x Privileged Position
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Sylvan Library

Planeswalker (10)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Nissa, Vital Force
• 1x Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
• 1x Teferi, Temporal Archmage
• 1x Teferi, Time Raveler
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Creature (7)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Zur the Enchanter

Commander (1)

Artifact (17)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Storage Matrix
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak
• 1x Winter Orb

Instant (7)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Sylvan Reclamation
• 1x Teferi's Protection

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Sideboard

Artifact (2)

• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Meekstone

Land (1)

• 1x Indatha Triome

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Maybeboard

Artifact (8)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Empowered Autogenerator
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Orb of Dreams
• 1x Pentad Prism
• 1x Sphere of the Suns

Planeswalker (5)

• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1x Tezzeret, Artifice Master
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Vraska the Unseen

Land (7)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Underground River

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Bring to Light
• 1x Final Judgment
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Wargate

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Consulate Crackdown
• 1x Dueling Grounds
• 1x Kismet
• 1x Monastery Siege
• 1x Root Maze
• 1x Tainted AEther

Instant (4)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Kaya's Guile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Windgrace's Judgment

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If you like not letting your opponents play, you'll love this deck. The main goal is to make the game as slow as possible, thats why it's almost instantless. Another important fact is there is almost no creatures so there is no drawback in playing any of the boardwipes.

I gotta tell you I started this deck as a planeswalker and enchantment deck, but then I realized that stax is one of the best ways to play planeswalkers in a multiplayer deck, that's why I started with the stax. But once you go stax you can never relax, so I did cut some planeswalkers to add more stax.

We're talking about optimizing grief, agony and despair among our opponents. So our goal is to reach a maximized point in the suffering curve, We'll call this lovely moment: Max Stax Level

What is Max Stax Level?

Max Stax Level is the point of the game when it goes so slow and boring that everyone ragequits. You need to have some board advantage like Atraxa or any Planeswalker when you reach MSL.

How do we reach Max Stax ?

There is plenty of cards on it's own that disrupt you'r opponent's (and most of the time yours as well) mana base like:

• Winter Orb
• Tangle Wire
• Static Orb
• Icy Manipulator
• Aura of Silence
• Frozen Aether
And my favourite:
• Armageddon
• Ravages of War
And my second favourite:
• Stasis

With Stasis you can easily increase the Stax Level, but it's not a great card on its own. There are some cards in the deck that helps us get {U} without tapping. If you combine Stasis with any of the following cards you can keep Stasis on for ever and reach Max Stax Lvl:

• Crystalline Crawler with Atraxa proliferating
• Pentad Prism with Atraxa proliferating
• Nissa, Vital Force
• Tezzeret the Seeker
• Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
• Garruk Wildspeaker
• Nature's Will
• Sun Titan bringing it to the battlefield every combat step
• Venser, the Sojourner (in sideboard)
• Kiora, Master of the Depths (in sideboard)
• Teferi, Temporal Archmage

The Combo

The main combo of the deck is similar to the one used in Chronatog decks. To achieve the complete lock you need:Kismet or Frozen Aether, with any of those and Stasis in play, everything your opponents play comes tapped and don't untap. But you need one of the cards above to pay for stasis. There are also 2 other cards that do as Kismet:

• Orb of Dreams (in sideboard)
• Root Maze

Also as we are trying to annoy everyone we are also playing some combo cards, there is great synergy between stax cards:

• Tangle Wire is insane with Atraxa in play, if you manage to play Winter Orb or Static Orb at this point, congrats it's now Max Stax

• Winter Orb and Nature's Will for tapping opponents lands while playing like winter orb was not there. congrats it's now Max Stax

Looking for the combo (or the right answer)

We all now that if you wanna play combo you need tutors, I'm still missing some but I do have great ones:

• Tezzeret the Seeker: this guy here is the best one. If you have atraxa in play Tangle Wire might be the best target in early game. The turn after look for Winter Orb and cowabonga! Max Stax! He can also become a Orb of Dreams if you have the other half of the combo.
• Liliana Vess: tutor anything
• Enlightened Tutor: tutor almost anything
• Demonic Tutor: tutor anything
• Zur the Enchanter:if you're looking for combo this dude can tutor Root Maze
• Sterling Grove: same as zur
• Idyllic Tutor: tutor any combo piece

There is not only combos in this deck, there is also plenty of control. There is about 7 boardwipes or things alike. My favourite among them is Spreading Plague, it's such an amazing card if you dont like creatures being alive. It does not only make my opponents kill their own creatures, it also makes my atraxa (almost) a Wrath of God.

Mana sources

In the deck I run 9 artifacts that provide mana, It's a lot! but necessary because of Winter Orb, Static Orb, and Armageddon.

I hope you like the deck =) and feel free to comment, I'm looking forward to make this deck even nastier. love ya

Top Ranked	Achieved #74 position overall 3 years ago Achieved #62 position in Commander / EDH 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Enchant 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Stax 3 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 2 Rares 15 - 1 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.32
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Emblem Teferi, Hero of Dominaria, Emblem Teferi, Temporal Archmage, Soldier 1/1 W, Treasure
Folders	Deck Folder A, New Deck Ideas, frad, EDH