Staxdrop! (Snowdrop Vorthos Deck)

Commander / EDH* Control Enchant Humans Ramp RW (Boros) Stax Vigilance Voltron Vorthos Weenie

DreadKhan

Land (31)

• 1x Alpine Meadow
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Axgard Armory
• 1x Balduvian Trading Post
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Guildless Commons
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Kjeldoran Outpost
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 4x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 4x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 4x Snow-Covered Plains
• 4x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x War Room

Draw (9)

• 1x Gandalf, White Rider
• 1x Kor Spiritdancer
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Professional Face-Breaker
• 1x Secret Rendezvous
• 1x Sram, Senior Edificer
• 1x War Room
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer
• 1x Wedding Ring

Aggro (8)

• 1x Cathar Commando
• 1x Drumbellower
• 1x Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1x Glory
• 1x Guardian of Faith
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Moon-Blessed Cleric
• 1x Sun Titan

Buff (5)

• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Crown of Flames
• 1x Ghitu Firebreathing
• 1x Inquisitor's Flail
• 1x Two-Handed Axe

Stax (5)

• 1x Crackdown
• 1x Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Smoke
• 1x Static Orb

Combo (3)

• 1x Brash Taunter
• 1x Guilty Conscience
• 1x Pariah

Interaction (16)

• 1x Balduvian Trading Post
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Cathar Commando
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Debt of Loyalty
• 1x Devoted Caretaker
• 1x Devout Witness
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Glory
• 1x Guilty Conscience
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Pariah
• 1x Reconnaissance
• 1x Spurnmage Advocate
• 1x Stroke of Midnight
• 1x Vandalblast

Wipe (10)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Delayed Blast Fireball
• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Reckless Endeavor
• 1x Retribution of the Meek
• 1x Righteous Fury
• 1x The Eternal Wanderer
• 1x Tragic Arrogance
• 1x Urza's Sylex

Tutor (9)

• 1x Axgard Armory
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Heliod's Pilgrim
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Moon-Blessed Cleric
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Urza's Sylex
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Anthem (6)

• 1x Blade Historian
• 1x Crescendo of War
• 1x Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1x Glory
• 1x Reconnaissance
• 1x True Conviction

Tokens (4)

• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Kjeldoran Outpost
• 1x The Eternal Wanderer

Recursion (2)

• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Sun Titan

Commander (1)

Ramp (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Archaeomancer's Map
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Professional Face-Breaker
• 1x Reckless Endeavor
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Talisman of Conviction

Protection (9)

• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Devoted Caretaker
• 1x Flickering Ward
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Glory
• 1x Guardian of Faith
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Land Shaver (8)

• 1x Axgard Armory
• 1x Balduvian Trading Post
• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Guildless Commons
• 1x Kjeldoran Outpost
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Urza's Sylex

Bounce Aura (3)

• 1x Crown of Flames
• 1x Flickering Ward
• 1x Ghitu Firebreathing

Blocker (1)

• 1x Brash Taunter

Graveyard Hate (1)

• 1x Scavenger Grounds

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Maybeboard

Draw (4)

• 1x Firemane Commando
• 1x Leave / Chance
• 1x Roadside Reliquary
• 1x Scrying Sheets

Wipe (2)

• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Urza's Sylex

Anthem (1)

• 1x Crown of Doom

Ramp (1)

• 1x Stoic Farmer

Aggro (3)

• 1x Firemane Commando
• 1x Frontline Medic
• 1x Stoic Farmer

Protection (3)

• 1x Frontline Medic
• 1x Leave / Chance
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Tutor (1)

• 1x Urza's Sylex

Interaction (3)

• 1x Frontline Medic
• 1x Intrepid Hero
• 1x Orim's Thunder

Land (2)

• 1x Roadside Reliquary
• 1x Scrying Sheets

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I was inspired to build this in part by watching Snowdrop, which was a very strange but ultimately very enjoyable show. Locking down opponent's creatures = taking hostages, the wipes/removal are solving one's problems via coffee/trip bombs/placed high explosives. This deck is a bit experimental in that it runs a mix of catchup ramp and ways to shrink my land count together, as well as a relatively low land count. These cards usually come in tapped, so they slow the deck down, but it's awesome to turn on your Cartographer's Hawk type stuff. With the land count reducers, this deck might be somewhat viable vs metas that aren't ramping lands but still run a decent number of lands. My own land count might be too low, and I intend to fiddle with it a fair bit more.

The deck has some pump effects in it that are designed to work around my lockdown and wipes, to make them asymmetrical, and thus far more powerful. The magic number is 3, but with Vigilance I can get around this limitation, so I do have a few cards that can be locked down by my own effects. This is primarily a Voltron deck, I can make A+C hard/impossible to block, and run plenty of things to pump them, combined with fun stuff like Double Strike and the almost perfectly designed Inquisitor's Flail, which is very good with First Strike and Vigilance.

If I think it's necessary, this deck has a 2 card combo in Brash Taunter + Guilty Conscience , with Brash Taunter + Pariah also being in the deck and also being very good to set up. The deck can win via Voltron, which it prefers to, but if someone else is running a better combo than you expected you can just do either of those. The deck has a very hard time protecting it's enchantments though, so hopefully you can damage Taunter that turn with Conscience to win on the spot. I'm strongly considering tossing in some cards that can fetch out Brash Taunter, I've already got ways to find enchantments, I also might look at Enlightened Tutor, this deck really wants the option of finding an Artifact.

The deck tries to set up a situation where I can repeatedly cast an Aura on A+C, letting me draw cards potentially as well as buffing my team, and I run a small selection of budget tutoring cards to dig these auras out. This deck is generally on the faster side when it comes to eliminating it's first threat (if it's actually working right), but you can expect to need some Stax effects to gain advantage if the game goes longer.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	3 weeks
Key combos	Brash Taunter + Guilty Conscience Brash Taunter + Pariah
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.03
Tokens	Copy Clone, Elephant 3-3 G, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Gold, Human 1/1 W, On an Adventure, Samurai 2/2 W w/ Double strike, Soldier 1/1 W, Treasure