Yakety Stax (Brago)

Commander / EDH*

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Artifact (26)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Prophetic Prism
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Winter Orb

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Act of Authority
• 1x Cloudform
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Lightform
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Parallax Tide
• 1x Parallax Wave
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Stasis

Land (31)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 6x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 4x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Windswept Heath

Instant (10)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Commander (1)

Creature (16)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Hokori, Dust Drinker
• 1x Lavinia of the Tenth
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Rishadan Brigand
• 1x Rishadan Cutpurse
• 1x Rishadan Footpad
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Windfall

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Enchantment (2)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Rising Waters

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Catastrophe

Creature (1)

• 1x Spellseeker

Artifact (1)

• 1x Trinisphere

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This deck has been a blast to pilot and hoses pretty much everything in my meta. The pleasure of watching a storm/ad nauseam player try to win under Thorn of Amethyst is now one of the most satisfying experiences I've had playing this game.

This Brago Yakety Stax.

It does exactly what you think it does.

Standard ridiculously overpowered mana rock package, check.

Standard cheeky STAX package, check.

Local Meta hate, check.

Full-art lands, check.

Strionic "GG" Resonator, check.

That's the deck. Now onto the specifics.

It's tuned for multiplayer with some specific hate for my meta. Here are some cards I've found interesting:

Lavinia of the Tenth is great against decks that run a lot of mana dorks or mana rocks, (which my meta has plenty of), as well as great against the Marath player in my playgroup.

Cursed Totem - Also hits mana dorks and Marath. Notably shuts off Necrotic Ooze and Mike&Trike combo (Unfortunately I'm the only Jarad player in my playgroup though).

Rest in Peace - Speaking of shutting down graveyard decks - this gives the Sharuum deck in my meta hell. That and it just blanks all your opponent's recursion cards. E-witness, Deathrite Shaman, and Snapcaster are now worthless.

Aven Mindcensor - Too many people run combo, I'm punishing them and fucking over the people who bought those expensive fetch/dual lands.

Parallax Wave - If your deck relies on creatures in any way you're fucked. Creature combo happens too often and there are a few aggro decks (Omnath, Locus of Rage is surprisingly good, so is One-Punch-Man Xenagos), that can give you hell if they build up any kind of board presence before you can lock them down. I might actually throw Reflector Mage or Man o' War into here to help with that. Anyway it's an amazing stabilizer, can almost seem like a permanent board wipe that doesn't kill Brago. If nothing else, it makes Elvish Mystic & co worthless.

Act of Authority has the potential for the same devastating effect as Aura Shards does in Bant/Selesnya, I have artifacts.deck and Karona mana-doubler-storm in my playgroup, so it's quite effective and way better than Oblivion Ring/D-sphere most of the time.

Aura of Silence - worth it as hate against the aforementioned artifact/enchantment decks.

Sphinx of Uthuun is another card I've been dying to try out - there are often times when this deck kind of just plays out its hand of stax/rocks and has to pray it can complete a lock before someone else can get enough spells through. Sphinx seems like an incredible topdeck and also a wonderful source of repeatable card draw. Slithermuse has also been suggested to me, and could be worth testing.

Prophetic Prism - Speaking of amazing repeatable card draw, this card is absolutely ridiculous. 2 Mana Phyrexian Arena that color fixes you (I seriously can't stress how relevant color fixing is in this deck) is pretty good. I've actually found myself tutoring for this card. The other option you have is Tsabo's Web, but nobody in my meta runs Maze of Ith, so the color fixing makes Prism better.

Pithing Needle - Trinket Mag is already insane even without this card. Shuts off planeswalkers and a ton of utility cards.

Sun Titan - Yes it's a nonbo with RIP but it's a great way to come back from getting slapped with artifact removal, and it does insane things with Strip Mine.

More testing soon to come!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.62
Tokens	Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	EDH # 2, Flicker, Old Decks
Based on	Brago Lockdown LabManiac_cobblepott EDH