Storm on deck!

Commander / EDH Artifact Combo Competitive Stax Storm

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Ramp (22)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Fractured Powerstone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Voltaic Key

Discount (6)

• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Semblance Anvil

Fill (5)

• 1x Claws of Gix
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Welding Jar

Land (30)

• 1x Aether Hub
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Glimmervoid
• 1x Great Furnace
• 8x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Stax (12)

• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Tsabo's Web
• 1x Winter Orb
• 1x Words of Wind

Any (2)

• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Sculpting Steel

Commander (1)

Draw (18)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 1x Alchemist's Vial
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Artificer's Assistant
• 1x Conjurer's Bauble
• 1x Elsewhere Flask
• 1x Hurkyl's Recall
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Paradoxical Outcome
• 1x Prophetic Prism
• 1x Pyrite Spellbomb
• 1x Quicksmith Genius
• 1x Rebuild
• 1x Retract
• 1x Riddlesmith
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Urza's Bauble

Win (4)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Walking Ballista

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Maybeboard

Draw (11)

• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Chromatic Sphere
• 1x Chromatic Star
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Lantern of Insight
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Possibility Storm
• 1x Retraction Helix
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant
• 1x Vedalken Archmage

Counter (2)

• 1x Foil
• 1x Force of Will

Fill (2)

• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Memnite

Any (1)

• 1x Rings of Brighthearth

Land (1)

• 1x Spire of Industry

Ramp (8)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Springleaf Drum

Tutor (5)

• 1x Gamble
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Trinket Mage

Mill (2)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Grinding Station

Other (7)

• 1x Ancestral Statue
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Engineered Explosives
• 1x Forcefield
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lightning Greaves

Stax (17)

• 1x Caltrops
• 1x Chalice of the Void
• 1x Damping Matrix
• 1x Mindlock Orb
• 11x Silent Gravestone
• 1x Sorcerous Spyglass
• 1x Tumble Magnet

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I like to compare this deck to a snowball. Each turn you push your snowball down the hill and see it grow on its own until it becomes unstoppable. If you are really lucky 1 push (turn) is enough but usually it takes around 4 or 5 turns.

Since there are only so many good cards to keep the deck going on its own. (Its not like you can include 30 manacrypt's). The deck features some artifact stax to fill the gaps.

How to play the deck

You will want to draw and play as many cards as possible each turn. While you keep developing the board, you should focus on making your artifacts cost less, draw more cards and get more mana. Usually in that order of priority (depending on your hand). For each such card you play, chances to keep going from there go up.

In most cases discount cards for artifacts (like Foundry Inspector) are the best targets for your copy cards (like Sculpting Steel).

How to win

You got some options. Aetherflux Reservoir is awesome because it will win you the game and since it's an artifact, it won't slow down your snowball as much. Laboratory Maniac is not only a game winner, knowing you have this card in your deck will also restore your sanity when you see your library shrinking like mad.

You could add more win conditions like Grapeshot, Fireball, ... . Take inclusion of these cards in careful consideration tho, every non cheap artifact card is like a speed bump for your snowball.

It's probably a good idea to secure your win conditions with free counter spells like Pact of Negation or Force of Will

Example of turn 1 win

1. cast Mana Crypt
2. cast Helm of Awakening
3. cast Lotus Petal
4. cast Mox Opal
5. cast Mana Vault
6. cast Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
7. cast Sensei's Divining Top

From here we basically draw 2 cards for each artifact we cast and all spells cost  less. There is no guarantee it keeps going from here but chances are very high.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	WBG
Splash colors	R
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.81
Tokens	Energy Reserve, Spirit 1/1 C