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Slowing Down the Competition — Putting Combos on Ice - The Stupid Stax Deck
Deck Size: 86
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Est deck cost: $797.27
Salt sum: 81.6
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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $6.99
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Spells your opponents cast cost {1} more to cast.

Creature
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV (2x2) 221

Commander

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Lands

Qty: 25 Price: $64.89
Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Adarkar Wastes (dmu) 243
Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Land
Arcane Lighthouse (cm2) 233
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Flooded Strand (ktk) 233
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (xln) 255
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rna) 251
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land
Maze of Ith (dmr) 250
Mystic Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {W/U}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Land
Mystic Gate (2xm) 324
Port Town

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Port Town (moc) 419
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
Seat of the Synod

{T}: Add {U}.

Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (j22) 820

Lands

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Artifacts

Qty: 12 Price: $242.69
Grafdigger's Cage

Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.

Artifact
Grafdigger's Cage (m20) 227
Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand. {2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
Isochron Scepter (plst) MRD-188
Mana Crypt

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, this artifact deals 3 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Crypt (2xm) 270
Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact. At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Vault (2x2) 308
Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Artifact
Meekstone (7ed) 307
Mirror Gallery

The "legend rule" doesn't apply.

Artifact
Mirror Gallery (plst) BOK-154
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
Sphere of Resistance

Spells cost {1} more to cast.

Artifact
Sphere of Resistance (exo) 139
Static Orb

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than two permanents during their untap steps.

Artifact
Static Orb (7ed) 319★
Talisman of Progress

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (scd) 283
Thorn of Amethyst

Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

Artifact
Thorn of Amethyst (lrw) 262
Winter Orb

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Artifact
Winter Orb (ema) 234

Artifacts

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Planeswalkers

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Tezzeret the Seeker

+1: Untap up to two target artifacts. −X: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. −5: Artifacts you control become artifact creatures with base power and toughness 5/5 until end of turn.

Planeswalker
Tezzeret the Seeker (mm2) 62

Planeswalkers

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Creatures

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Archaeomancer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Archaeomancer (plst) C17-81
Aven Mindcensor

Flash Flying If an opponent would search a library, that player searches the top four cards of that library instead.

Creature
Aven Mindcensor (clb) 688
Brago, King Eternal

Flying Whenever Brago deals combat damage to a player, exile any number of target nonland permanents you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Creature
Brago, King Eternal (khc) 82
Clever Impersonator

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.

Creature
Clever Impersonator (c19) 82
Fatespinner

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player chooses draw step, main phase, or combat phase. The player skips each instance of the chosen step or phase this turn.

Creature
Fatespinner (plst) MRD-36
Glen Elendra Archmage

Flying {U}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target noncreature spell. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Glen Elendra Archmage (uma) 58
Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Creature
Grand Abolisher (e01) 12
Lodestone Golem

Nonartifact spells cost {1} more to cast.

Creature Artifact
Lodestone Golem (mm2) 219
Medomai the Ageless

Flying Whenever Medomai deals combat damage to a player, take an extra turn after this one. Medomai can't attack during extra turns.

Creature
Medomai the Ageless (ths) 196
Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Metamorph (2xm) 61
Snapcaster Mage

Flash When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature
Snapcaster Mage (plst) ISD-78
Spelltithe Enforcer

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice unless they pay {1}.

Creature
Spelltithe Enforcer (plst) GPT-18
Sun Titan

Vigilance Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Sun Titan (ncc) 210
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

Creature
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben (vow) 38
Venser, Shaper Savant

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Venser, Shaper Savant (2x2) 66
Vryn Wingmare

Flying Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

Creature
Vryn Wingmare (plst) M21-43

Creatures

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Sorceries

Qty: 5 Price: $28.65
Armageddon

Destroy all lands.

Sorcery
Armageddon (a25) 5
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (ncc) 229
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Preordain (j22) 63
Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Supreme Verdict (2x2) 280
Terminus

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries. Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Terminus (c18) 77

Sorceries

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Enchantments

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Aura of Silence

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast. Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment
Aura of Silence (plst) C15-60
Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Authority of the Consuls (kld) 5
Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Enchantment
Blind Obedience (c17) 57
Frozen Aether

Artifacts, creatures, and lands your opponents control enter tapped.

Enchantment
Frozen Aether (plst) PLC-54
Humility

All creatures lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 1/1.

Enchantment
Humility (tmp) 24
Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Land Tax (plst) BBD-94
Mana Breach

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player returns a land they control to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Mana Breach (7ed) 85★
Monastery Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card, then discard a card. • Dragons — Spells your opponents cast that target you or a permanent you control cost {2} more to cast.

Enchantment
Monastery Siege (c17) 88
Rest in Peace

When this enchantment enters, exile all graveyards. If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Enchantment
Rest in Peace (a25) 32
Stasis

Players skip their untap steps. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {U}.

Enchantment
Stasis (5ed) 127
Suppression Field

Activated abilities cost {2} more to activate unless they're mana abilities.

Enchantment
Suppression Field (rav) 31

Enchantments

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Instants

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Cryptic Command

Choose two — • Counter target spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures your opponents control. • Draw a card.

Instant
Cryptic Command (plst) LRW-56
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 47
Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (dmr) 6
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (dmr) 48
Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Force of Will (dmr) 50
Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Instant
Mana Leak (2x2) 58
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 60
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
Orim's Chant

Kicker {W} (You may pay an additional {W} as you cast this spell.) Target player can't cast spells this turn. If this spell was kicked, creatures can't attack this turn.

Instant
Orim's Chant (plst) PLS-11
Render Silent

Counter target spell. Its controller can't cast spells this turn.

Instant
Render Silent (dgm) 96
Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Instant
Rewind (m21) 63
Silence

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.

Instant
Silence (m14) 35
Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Instant
Spell Pierce (2x2) 63
Stifle

Counter target activated or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Instant
Stifle (cns) 108
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (c16) 98

Instants

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Deck Info

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30 pips - 23 cards
9 mana - 7 cards
40 pips - 30 cards
24 mana - 22 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 1 card
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 1 card
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 1 card
0 pips - 0 cards
12 mana - 8 cards
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