Skull Kid Drops The Moon [8.5 Tails]

Commander / EDH Hatebears Land Destruction Mono-White Multiplayer Stax

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Stax (19)

• 1x Archivist of Oghma
• 1x Archon of Emeria
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Containment Priest
• 1x Deafening Silence
• 1x Deep Gnome Terramancer
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Hushbringer
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Lion Sash
• 1x Ranger-Captain of Eos
• 1x Reidane, God of the Worthy  ^Flip
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip

Tutors (6)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Search for Glory
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic

Additional Protection (4)

• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice

Card Selection (3)

• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

Lands (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Petrified Field
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scrying Sheets
• 18x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x War Room
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath

Spot Removal (7)

• 1x Dismantling Wave
• 1x Fateful Absence
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Heliod's Intervention
• 1x Skyclave Apparition
• 1x Solitude
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Recursion (4)

• 1x Brought Back
• 1x Cosmic Intervention
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Sun Titan

Protection From Cyclonic Rift (2)

• 1x Sanctum Prelate
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Commander (1)

Additional Mana (10)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Hearth and Home
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Board Clear (5)

• 1x Devastating Mastery
• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Terminus
• 1x Vanquish the Horde
• 1x Wrath of God

Win The Game (4)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Court of Grace
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

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Sideboard

Other Good Cards (10)

• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Damping Field
• 1x Emeria Shepherd
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Hushwing Gryff
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Peacekeeper
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thalia's Lancers

Double mana (3)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gauntlet of Power

Stax (3)

• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Glowrider
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

New (1)

• 1x Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

New maybe (3)

• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Rule of Law
• 1x Savior of Ollenbock

Color Nonsense (2)

• 1x Earnest Fellowship
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

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I'd say this deck is a solid 8.5/10. It lacks draw power, and has no infinite combo finishers, but it puts up a pretty decent fight in most pods due to randomly shutting off decks with stax pieces that I'm able to protect fairly well. As well as being relatively unbothered by Stranglehold/Bloodmoon/B2B effects.

My typical line of play is to land as many stax pieces as possible in the early game to slow the table down to my pace. Once I up to get 7 or 8 Mana I play 8.5 Tails and leave up 3-5 Mana every turn cycle to prevent my opponents from interacting with my permanents for as long as I can, while I grind my way to the late game.

The main win condition is being able to produce enough mana in a single turn to colorshift everyone elses lands and artifacts White with Eight-and-a-Half-Tails, then blow up all colored permanents with Ugin, the Spirit Dragon, or All Is Dust. The secondary win condition is locking my opponents out of interacting with my board, and then crunching in with unlockable chip damage.

This deck has been a pet-project of mine for a while now. I started playing it in 2007, and have been playing some variant of it ever since. More recently I've started picking up a number of alters. The list of artists who have worked on pieces in my deck include the lovely; S2 Alters, MG Alters, Luey Dragons MTG Alters, & BayPaintStudios.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	UBRG
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	29 - 5 Mythic Rares 47 - 13 Rares 5 - 4 Uncommons 1 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.80
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Clue, Elephant 3-3 G, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Foretell, Illusion X/X U, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W, Spirit 2/2 C, Monarch Emblem, Treasure