I've been seeing this deck type mentioned a lot. And it's always mentioned with a very Spike-player tone to it as in something that most people instantly scoop against because it's so dangerously effective.
So what exactly is it? I have no interest in playing it. But it irks me when I am not familiar with a deck type.
I've been seeing this deck type mentioned a lot. And it's always mentioned with a very Spike-player tone to it as in something that most people instantly scoop against because it's so dangerously effective.
So what exactly is it? I have no interest in playing it. But it irks me when I am not familiar with a deck type.
Its a mana denial deck, it trys to win by attacking your manabase so you cant cast spells... and has lots of taxing cards as well...
It's a deck that forces the opponent to pay mana for ordinary facets of the game. Want to attack? Pay 2 for each creature because of Ghostly Prison. Want to activate abilities? Pay 2 for each because of Suppression Field. Cast spells? Pay a miminum of 3 per spell because of Trinisphere. By controlling the opponent's mana like that, you slow the overall pace of play because you're forcing them to do only one thing per turn, and when you cast Armageddon, all of a sudden they can't do anything and lose all of their creatures because of Tabernacle.
Nowadays, Stax means a prison deck (a deck that prevents your opponent from doing stuff, essentially locking them in a prison) that has an artifact component to it.
"Stax" is short for "The Four Thousand Dollar Solution" ($T4KS), since the deck originally cost about $4,000 to build. It it an archetype that was original created for the Vintage environment to combat a metagame based around gdoing degenerate things. Stax usually wins very, very slowly through copious amounts of disruption and resource denial.
I have heard vague rumors of a moustache-dispensing vending machine in a distant laundromat, across the street from a tattoo parlor. However, this information is shaky, and time is of the essence.
It's weird, I know what $T4KS stood for, but I always just thought the name Stax was derived from the card Smokestack. Or is that just because there are Legacy decks that are called Stax that use Smokestack?
"Stax" is short for "The Four Thousand Dollar Solution" ($T4KS), since the deck originally cost about $4,000 to build. It it an archetype that was original created for the Vintage environment to combat a metagame based around gdoing degenerate things. Stax usually wins very, very slowly through copious amounts of disruption and resource denial.
Stax isn't really a deck. It's something you do to someone when you really, truly hate them and wish them to suffer.
But that said I would love to see a Standard-legal deck with the same strategy, mostly to see people complaining about it. Regardless, it's not that powerful a deck (it's tier 2 in Legacy, at least). It is, however, something you usually see pop up because some misanthrope wants to make each tournament round go to time and because prison decks have a certain following.
But that said I would love to see a Standard-legal deck with the same strategy, mostly to see people complaining about it. Regardless, it's not that powerful a deck (it's tier 2 in Legacy, at least). It is, however, something you usually see pop up because some misanthrope wants to make each tournament round go to time and because prison decks have a certain following.
I have heard vague rumors of a moustache-dispensing vending machine in a distant laundromat, across the street from a tattoo parlor. However, this information is shaky, and time is of the essence.
So what exactly is it? I have no interest in playing it. But it irks me when I am not familiar with a deck type.
Its a mana denial deck, it trys to win by attacking your manabase so you cant cast spells... and has lots of taxing cards as well...
see also here: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=148066
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Dreadstill (retired)
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Nowadays, Stax means a prison deck (a deck that prevents your opponent from doing stuff, essentially locking them in a prison) that has an artifact component to it.
In Vintage, Stax is based around using Mishra's Workshop to accelerate out disruption like Thorn of Amethyst or Trinisphere and then establishing a soft lock with Smokestack and Crucible of Worlds (and Goblin Welder to swap Smokestacks when needed). Stax decks range from colorless to 5-color, depending on the metagame.
In Legacy, Stax is usually mono-white with less of an artifact presence due to the fact that Worshop is banned.
I suggest visiting the Legacy and Vintage forums for more discussion of the archetype and some decklists.
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But that said I would love to see a Standard-legal deck with the same strategy, mostly to see people complaining about it. Regardless, it's not that powerful a deck (it's tier 2 in Legacy, at least). It is, however, something you usually see pop up because some misanthrope wants to make each tournament round go to time and because prison decks have a certain following.
I built a mono-white deck around World Queller, Emeria, The Sky Ruin, and Sun Titan last season. It wasn't good, exactly, but it was fun (for me) to play.
It's good if you're a voyeur, but most people hate it.
Battle of the goldfish decks.
I've done that a bunch; it's not very exciting.
No, the correct answer is:
Dredge player: Turn 1, bazaar, go.
Stax player: Game 2 please, time to sideboard...