So, I'm trying to build a "semi-casual"/competitive Stax deck (I don't even know if competitive EDH really exists, but my friends are a bunch of tryhards that really want to win hahaha). I'm trying to build something based on this list Liliana, Heretical Healer, but I don't have a good portion of the most expensive cards (like Mana Crypt, Bitterblossom and Damnation).
I've been reading the Stax Primer by Phil and got some ideas from there, but I really don't know if this is going in the right direction, what do you guys think about the list I have until this moment:
I do have a Dark Confidant too, but I don't know if it's a good bet, or if I should go after a Phyrexian Arena, wich isn't very expensive anyways. I'm looking for a Geth's Grimoire too, but it's hard to find where I play.
To this moment I believe my win cons are Marit Lage, Ormendahl, Bridge from Below (with Gravecrawler + Paradox Engine + Soldevi Adnate combo) and lockdown with Contamination and Smokestack + Sundial of the Infinite.
Any help will be appreciated, thanks in advance and sorry about the poor english.
Yeah, I'm waiting to see if the Coffers are going to be reprinted in Magic 25th's... It's pretty expensive atm, thats why I'm not using it with Urborg. But I may consider getting it once and for all. Another card that has not much use atm is Undiscovered Paradise, I think I will remove it until I get a Bloodghast.
The idea behing the Terramorphic was to fetch my deck, since I have few tutors atm...
Razaketh looks interesting, I will look foward to it.
I'll make sure to go after a Magus of the Abyss, maybe I'll replace Body Snatcher with it.
I just noticed that my list has some missing cards, I have a Mana Vault already. I do have the Petal and Basalt Monolith too, I'm going to give it a try.
And I bought a Urborg, now I'm looking for a nice deal on a Coffer.
So, I'm trying to build a "semi-casual"/competitive Stax deck (I don't even know if competitive EDH really exists, but my friends are a bunch of tryhards that really want to win hahaha). I'm trying to build something based on this list Liliana, Heretical Healer, but I don't have a good portion of the most expensive cards (like Mana Crypt, Bitterblossom and Damnation).
I've been reading the Stax Primer by Phil and got some ideas from there, but I really don't know if this is going in the right direction, what do you guys think about the list I have until this moment:
1 Liliana, Heretical Healer #!Commander
//Lands
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Buried Ruin
1 Cabal Pit
1 Dark Depths
1 Ebon Stronghold
1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
1 Phyrexian Tower
20 Swamp
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Thespian's Stage
1 Undiscovered Paradise
1 Westvale Abbey
//Spells
1 Altar of Dementia
1 Anvil of Bogardan
1 Ashes to Ashes
1 Barter in Blood
1 Bottomless Pit
1 Bridge from Below
1 Buried Alive
1 Charcoal Diamond
1 Coldsteel Heart
1 Contamination
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Dark Tutelage
1 Death Cloud
1 Decree of Pain
1 Desolation
1 Diabolic Tutor
1 Dictate of Erebos
1 Expedition Map
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Grave Pact
1 Jet Medallion
1 Mox Diamond
1 Oppression
1 Oversold Cemetery
1 Paradox Engine
1 Phyrexian Reclamation
1 Skullclamp
1 Smallpox
1 Smokestack
1 Sol Ring
1 Stitch Together
1 Sundial of the Infinite
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Trading Post
1 Victimize
1 Waste Not
1 Winter Orb
1 Basal Thrull
1 Blood Artist
1 Blood Pet
1 Blood Scrivener
1 Body Snatcher
1 Braids, Cabal Minion
1 Carrion Feeder
1 Corpse Hauler
1 Crypt Ghast
1 Cryptbreaker
1 Dark Confidant
1 Fleshbag Marauder
1 Gravecrawler
1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1 Grim Haruspex
1 Merciless Executioner
1 Myr Retriever
1 Ophiomancer
1 Reassembling Skeleton
1 Soldevi Adnate
1 Stinkweed Imp
1 Vampire Hexmage
1 Vengeful Pharaoh
1 Viscera Seer
1 Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed
1 Zulaport Cutthroat
I do have a Dark Confidant too, but I don't know if it's a good bet, or if I should go after a Phyrexian Arena, wich isn't very expensive anyways. I'm looking for a Geth's Grimoire too, but it's hard to find where I play.
To this moment I believe my win cons are Marit Lage, Ormendahl, Bridge from Below (with Gravecrawler + Paradox Engine + Soldevi Adnate combo) and lockdown with Contamination and Smokestack + Sundial of the Infinite.
Any help will be appreciated, thanks in advance and sorry about the poor english.
Missing Cabal Coffers and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth. Why would you play Terramorphic expanse? Augur of Skulls seems like it would be good.
Not enough mana sources. Either play
I think you should play Razaketh, the foulblooded or Sheoldred, Whispering One, Animate Dead...
8.RG Green Devotion Ramp/Combo 9.UR Draw Triggers 10.WUR Group stalling 11.WUR Voltron Spellslinger 12.WB Sacrificial Shenanigans
13.BR Creatureless Panharmonicon 14.BR Pingers and Eldrazi 15.URG Untapped Cascading
16.Reyhan, last of the Abzan's WUBG +1/+1 Counter Craziness 17.WUBRG Dragons aka Why did I make this?
Building: The Gitrog Monster lands, Glissa the Traitor stax, Muldrotha, the Gravetide Planeswalker Combo, Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix + Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa Clues, and Tribal Scarecrow Planeswalkers
Yeah, I'm waiting to see if the Coffers are going to be reprinted in Magic 25th's... It's pretty expensive atm, thats why I'm not using it with Urborg. But I may consider getting it once and for all. Another card that has not much use atm is Undiscovered Paradise, I think I will remove it until I get a Bloodghast.
The idea behing the Terramorphic was to fetch my deck, since I have few tutors atm...
Razaketh looks interesting, I will look foward to it.
Thanks for the feedback.
As you're playing black Magus of the Abyss isn't a bad option.
Mana rocks are super important in Stax to keep yourself in the green with mana sources when you can't untap your lands.
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I'll make sure to go after a Magus of the Abyss, maybe I'll replace Body Snatcher with it.
I just noticed that my list has some missing cards, I have a Mana Vault already. I do have the Petal and Basalt Monolith too, I'm going to give it a try.
And I bought a Urborg, now I'm looking for a nice deal on a Coffer.