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Hi All,

I was looking for feedback on what I call my BG Fast Stax deck. Basically i built this deck wanting to play smokestack without all the typical MUD Cards. I put in some synergies such as rancor, Bitterblossom, Bloodghast, to work with Smokestack to help me get card advantage. Sometimes I get the lock but it feels like not always often enough. (but I do better than I do with my normal stax deck)

I've been having some success but am looking to improve it. Any recommendations on what to swap? Feedback is welcome.

4 x Dark Ritual
4 x Rancor
4 x Deathrite Shaman
4 x Bloodghast
4 x Bitterblossom
4 x Tarmogoyf
4 x Abrupt Decay
2 x Buried Alive
2 x Pernicious Deed
4 x Smokestack
2 x Braids, Cabal Minion

4 x Bayou
2 x Forest
2 x swamp
4 x Verdant Catacombs
3 x Misty Rainforest
3 x Polluted Delta
4 x Wasteland

Hi there. Just came across this page when looking for a legacy deck to play. This deck looks really nice. Have you made any modifications over the past month? Any new updates about what is working and what isn't (and why?)?

I am working on a Green splash Black Stax deck but it doesn't look like this.

I am thinking Ramunap Excavator and spells that let you outnumber your opponent on permanents quickly, such as Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Exploration, Wasteland, Khalni Garden.



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I really like this deck. In fact it looks a lot like something I would build. I run something fairly similar but mine is BW and less aggro and more lock centered. I run Smallpox for Bloodghast and Lingering Souls synergies and Sinkhole to attack my opponents mana base. Something you might want to test is Root Maze to tie up your opponents mana. Root Maze wrecks a lot of combo on it's own and it also hates on opponents fetchlands. Of course you would have to fix your mana base to exclude fetchies. Cool deck though! I might test it and chime back in later.

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Hi All,

I was looking for feedback on what I call my BG Fast Stax deck. Basically i built this deck wanting to play smokestack without all the typical MUD Cards. I put in some synergies such as rancor, Bitterblossom, Bloodghast, to work with Smokestack to help me get card advantage. Sometimes I get the lock but it feels like not always often enough. (but I do better than I do with my normal stax deck)

I've been having some success but am looking to improve it. Any recommendations on what to swap? Feedback is welcome.

4 x Dark Ritual
4 x Rancor
4 x Deathrite Shaman
4 x Bloodghast
4 x Bitterblossom
4 x Tarmogoyf
4 x Abrupt Decay
2 x Buried Alive
2 x Pernicious Deed
4 x Smokestack
2 x Braids, Cabal Minion

4 x Bayou
2 x Forest
2 x swamp
4 x Verdant Catacombs
3 x Misty Rainforest
3 x Polluted Delta
4 x Wasteland

Maybe I'm missing something, but what's your 'lock'? To replay Rancor after sac'ing a creature?

I think for the 'synergy' you mention, you have a lot of anti-synergy going on which is going to work against you. Smokestack is bad when it's symmetric, which means you have to break the symmetry. I'm not convinced you've done enough symmetry breaking to play 6 Smokestacks. 10 non-permanents and 10 fetch-lands (plus 4 Wastelands) plus 2 blow-up the world cards makes it a tough sell in my mind.

If you want to make it more consistent, look at how you intend to win and what stops you. Make sure your cards provide the solutions. I would drop the fetches, lose Buried Alive, and ditch Dark Ritual to start. From there, I think you want to decide if you are going to go Stax or Pox. If you stick with Stax, I would add some number of Crucibles, maybe a Volrath's Stronghold, maybe a Phyrexian Arena... some kind of recurring card advantage.

Again, I'm just not as convinced that this would be better than a dedicated Stax or Pox deck... Good Luck!