Stax and Stones

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) Control Group Slug Stax Tempo

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Creature (11)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Herald of Leshrac
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Lodestone Golem
• 1x Myojin of Night's Reach
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Planeswalker (5)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Vraska the Unseen

Land (37)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Dust Bowl
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 2x Forest
• 1x Glimmervoid
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 2x Island
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rishadan Port
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tree of Tales
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Archmage Ascension
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Call to the Grave
• 1x Descent into Madness
• 1x Dream Tides
• 1x Land Equilibrium
• 1x Mana Vortex
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rising Waters
• 1x Stasis

Artifact (23)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Damping Matrix
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Lux Cannon
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mishra's Helix
• 1x Portcullis
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Ward of Bones
• 1x Winter Orb

Instant (4)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Mystical Teachings
• 1x Time Stop

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Killing Wave

Commander (1)

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"What Is Stax?

Stax is a term used to describe a deck strategy that mostly relies on resource denial, taxing effects, disruption, and sacrifice enablers to potentially lock down opponents and make it difficult to cast spells, play creatures, attack, breath, sleep, and/or have any kind of reliable board state.The goal is to build your Rube Goldberg contraption of denial as fast and efficiently as possible thus allowing you to set up your win cons unopposed. Stax decks use a inefficient = efficient mentality when it comes to the game of Magic the Gathering. What this means is you're turning cards that normally would hinder everyone work to your advantage. A simple example is playing Winter Orb when you have a stronger presence of alternative mana production. This allows you to play through such effects more efficiently than your opponents.

Is Stax For You?

-Do you play in a competitive Meta with mature adults?

-Do you feel Land Destruction is a perfectly viable strategy?

-Do you enjoy control type strategies?

-Are you not opposed to being the target every game?

-Do you enjoy longer, more complicated games?

Stax decks are not friendly. They're not buying you beers or laughing at your Chuck Norris jokes. They will generally become the table's focus once up and running and will draw out games beyond the 20 minute mark. They are difficult to pilot and can be frustrating to do so. But that's not to say that can't be fun to play and play against. A lot of people like challenges, probably why people climb mountains or get married, and this is the type of deck that gives you one.Stax decks are not good stuff decks, or battle cruiser. They do not play big creatures and rarely have more then two or three of them out at a time. They also aren't big mana decks pushing out huge plays on turn five. They're slower, more restrictive, and really rely on the pilot to know when to play certain cards and when to hold back."-http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/commander-edh/204260-the-stax-primer

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 67 - 0 Rares 7 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.00
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Player Killer, Boar 2/2 G, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Goat 0/1 W, Plant 0/1 G