Teferi Big Blue Stasis

Commander / EDH Control Mono-Blue Stax

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Artifact (19)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Icy Manipulator
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x The Chain Veil
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Winter Orb
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Land (37)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 31x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Tectonic Edge

Creature (15)

• 1x Aura Thief
• 1x Colossus of Akros
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Frost Titan
• 1x Great Whale
• 1x Guile
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stormsurge Kraken
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Temporal Adept
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Decree of Silence
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Overburden
• 1x Pendrell Mists
• 1x Rising Waters
• 1x Stasis

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Windfall

Commander (1)

Instant (13)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dismiss
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Whispers of the Muse

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Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Creature (1)

• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Instant (2)

• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Pact of Negation

Artifact (1)

• 1x Grim Monolith

Sorcery (2)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Temporal Fissure

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Like most Teferi builds, the goal of this deck is to keep your opponents tapped down while using Teferi's -1 and some other tricks to keep untapping your own stuff.

More competitive builds tend to run a variety of very expensive win cons. That was both more than I was willing to spend as well as likely too oppressive for our playgroup. So instead, I'm running some less powerful big beaters and some infinite combos that allow me to bounce every permanent instead.

Main themes in the deck are:

• Untap prevention
• Tap and tax effects
• Bounce effects
• Infinite mana
• Big creatures

Lockdown

The main lock pieces in descending order of power are Stasis, Static Orb, Winter Orb and Rising Waters.

• Stasis requires an upkeep every turn, but stops all untapping. You can use Teferi untaps to pay for it, but it's even better if you can just bounce it and untap everything.
• Static Orb and Winter Orb turn off when tapped, so you can use Icy Manipulator to tap them down and break the symetry when needed.
• Rising Waters guarantees an untap (even if one of the other lockdown pieces is in play), but it can still help slow down the game while you play out mana rocks and lands.

Tap and Tax effects

The lock pieces only keep things tapped. As such, opponents can keep playing lands to eventually destroy lock pieces or play vigilence creatures (Atraxa being a common, powerful example). You can use Icy Manipulator, Frost Titan and Lorthos, the Tidemaker to tap down lands and problem creatures.

Overburden, Pendrell Mists and Mystic Remora can all make it miserably for your opponents to play creatures or spells.

Decree of Silence can also lock down the board for a while once the lock is in place. Remember that you can cycle it as an emergency counterspell or bounce it before its counters run out.

Bounce Effects

Bounce has two main purposes in the deck. It allows you to pick up your lock cards so that you can take normal turns while your opponents are stuck making awful decisions. It can also be used to bounce things that your opponents play through the lock.

Capsize is incredibly powerful since it can be cast multiple times per turn. With how much mana the deck generates, it's frequently possibly to capsize 2-3 times per turn. Temporal Adept is normally only once per turn, but can act like Capsize while comboing with Paradox Engine.

Obviously, Cyclonic Rift is somewhere between incredibly overpowered and broken.

Infinite Mana

The deck has several ways of generating infinite mana:

• High Tide/Caged Sun + Capsize + Great Whale/Peregrine Drake => Infinite Bounces
• Paradox Engine + Great Whale/Peregrine Drake + Capsize/Temporal Adept + Mana Rocks => Infinite Bounces
• Paradox Engine + Whispers of the Muse + Mana Rocks => Infinite Card Draw

From there, you can use Blue Sun's Zenith to deck everyone or beat own with fatties.

Big Creatures

Phyrexian Ingester and Steel Hellkite are useful for helping blow up things that your opponents are able to cast through the lock.

Frost Titan can allow you to tap down lands or other problem cards as needed to maintain the lock.

Stormtide Leviathan makes all of your creatures unblockable. Colossus of Akros once monstrous can trample over basically anything.

Consecrated Sphinx and Stormsurge Kraken both give additional sources of card advantage.

Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger can exile problem permanents to keep your opponents locked down. At high mana, you can bounce and recast it for ultimate misery.

Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur generally just wins the game if it survives a turn. Generally best to flash in during opponents end step.

Non-Budget Upgrade Options

If budget is no concern, there are some easy adds to increase the power level:

• Tamiyo, the Moon Sage can help tap things down and draw whatever answers you might need.
• Kozilek, Butcher of Truth has a high annihilator count and draws cards.
• Ugin, the Spirit Dragon can minus to wipe out most threats
• All Is Dust can also do Ugin's job
• Tezzeret the Seeker can help find lock pieces and untap more stuff
• Grim Monolith, Mana Vault and Gilded Lotus are just better than several of the mana rocks that this deck currently runs. Lotus in particular goes infinite with Paradox Engine, Capsize and 3 mana in colorless rocks.
• Force of Will and Pact of Negation are very powerful counters in this kind of deck.

List of adds as decklist for price check: Teferi Precon Upgrades

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.95
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Emblem Teferi, Temporal Archmage
Folders	EDH