Astral Stax • (Esper Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Cycling Enchantress Stax Prison Control

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Cycling Enchantress Stax Prison Control

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Zur the Enchanter

Flying
Whenever Zur attacks, you may search your library for an enchantment card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$---- $---- $----

Commander

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Astral Slide

Whenever a player cycles a card, you may exile target creature. If you do, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment

$1.29 $0.66 $0.25

Blink

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Temporal Mastery

Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Mastery.
Miracle

(You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery

$10.99 $7.79 $5.38

Burn

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Copy Enchantment

You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of any enchantment on the battlefield.

Enchantment

$2.29 $2.11 $1.21

Estrid's Invocation

You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of an enchantment you control, except it has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile this enchantment. If you do, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control."

Enchantment

$1.29 $1.03 $0.46

Strionic Resonator

: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Artifact

$9.49 $6.44 $4.95

Copy

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Pact of Negation

Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay

. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant

$21.99 $16.45 $13.54

Counters

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Astral Drift

Whenever you cycle this card or cycle another card while this enchantment is on the battlefield, you may exile target creature. If you do, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Choking Tethers

Tap up to four target creatures.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, you may tap target creature.

Instant

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Complicate

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, you may counter target spell unless its controller pays

Instant

$0.69 $0.35 $0.15

Decree of Silence

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, counter that spell and put a depletion counter on this enchantment. If there are three or more depletion counters on this enchantment, sacrifice it.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, you may counter target spell.

Enchantment

$24.99 $20.67 $13.54

Glassdust Hulk

Whenever another artifact you control enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature Artifact - Golem

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Jhessian Zombies

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Islandcycling

, swampcycling

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Sanctum Plowbeast

Defender
Plainscycling

, islandcycling

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature Artifact - Beast

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Cycling

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Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Enchantment

$21.99 $16.07 $14.07

Necropotence

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment

$39.99 $30.94 $31.57

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$79.99 $65.91 $51.02

Scroll Rack

: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Artifact

$64.99 $42.85 $33.73

Sensei's Divining Top

: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Artifact

$42.99 $38.29 $31.91

Street Wraith

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Cycling—Pay 2 life. (Pay 2 life, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature - Wraith

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Draw

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Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Sorcery

$8.99 $5.81 $4.86

Finisher

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Adarkar Wastes

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$6.49 $5.56 $3.27

Ancient Tomb

: Add

. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land

$149.99 $125.70 $126.02

Barren Moor

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$0.35 $0.34 $0.17

Blasted Landscape

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$2.99 $1.60 $1.47

Caves of Koilos

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$1.29 $0.57 $0.26

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

$42.99 $41.27 $40.56

Desert of the Glorified

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Desert

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Desert of the Mindful

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Desert

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Desert of the True

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Desert

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Drifting Meadow

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$2.79 $2.60 $1.70

Flooded Strand

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

Land

$24.99 $15.84 $14.84

Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.59 $0.22

Godless Shrine

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Swamp

$27.99 $22.13 $19.31

Hall of Heliod's Generosity

: Add

: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Legendary Land

$16.99 $10.16 $9.52

Hallowed Fountain

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Island

$18.99 $13.66 $12.57

Irrigated Farmland

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$24.99 $26.08 $29.70

Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$1.79 $1.36 $0.40

Lonely Sandbar

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Marsh Flats

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

Land

$54.99 $38.24 $36.45

Maze of Ith

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

Land

$13.99 $10.06 $8.57

Mistveil Plains

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.

: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Activate only if you control two or more white permanents.

Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Plains

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: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$13.99 $13.76 $15.63

Polluted Delta

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$32.99 $20.68 $19.25

Polluted Mire

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Prairie Stream

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Plains Island

$0.49 $0.20 $0.15

Remote Isle

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Secluded Steppe

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Sunken Hollow

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Island Swamp

$7.49 $2.82 $2.35

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$29.99 $24.33 $24.25

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$8.49 $5.24 $4.09

Watery Grave

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Swamp

$32.99 $25.62 $21.87

Land

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Angelsong

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.99 $0.36 $0.15

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$8.49 $6.40 $5.32

Greater Auramancy

Other enchantments you control have shroud. (A permanent with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Enchanted creatures you control have shroud.

Enchantment

$29.99 $18.35 $18.04

Mage's Guile

Target creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$4.49 $3.83 $2.86

Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant

$64.99 $49.60 $48.97

Protection

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Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$59.99 $51.64 $55.73

Azorius Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.59 $0.31 $0.19

Dimir Signet

: Add

Artifact

$1.29 $0.92 $0.39

Fluctuator

Cycling abilities you activate cost

less to activate.

Artifact

$7.99 $6.14 $4.35

Mind Stone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.31 $0.23

Orzhov Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $0.36 $0.29

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $1.72 $1.42

Talisman of Dominance

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$2.99 $3.59 $0.62

Talisman of Hierarchy

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$1.29 $0.89 $0.51

Talisman of Progress

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.46 $0.26

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$4.99 $2.58 $2.51

Victory Chimes

Untap this artifact during each other player's untap step.

: A player of your choice adds

Artifact

$6.49 $4.77 $4.20

Ramp

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Aura of Silence

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost

more to cast.
Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment

$10.99 $9.43 $4.50

Clear

Destroy target enchantment.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Counterbalance

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, counter that spell if it has the same mana value as the revealed card.

Enchantment

$6.49 $5.36 $3.46

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.49 $4.14 $2.30

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant

$42.99 $38.41 $34.32

Expunge

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Forsake the Worldly

Exile target artifact or enchantment.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Grasp of Fate

When this enchantment enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.38 $0.15

Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker
Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "

: Add

" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.59 $0.36 $0.15

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of

equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

$69.99 $54.10 $50.73

Merciless Eviction

Choose one —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all planeswalkers.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.60 $0.26

Nevermore

As this enchantment enters, choose a nonland card name.
Spells with the chosen name can't be cast.

Enchantment

$2.49 $1.69 $0.71

Nimble Obstructionist

Flash
Flying
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, counter target activated or triggered ability you don't control.

Creature - Wizard Bird

$0.49 $0.42 $0.26

Oubliette

When this enchantment enters, target creature phases out until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)

Enchantment

$3.99 $2.55 $2.08

Radiant's Judgment

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Stifle

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

Instant

$15.99 $14.45 $11.14

Supreme Verdict

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

Sorcery

$5.99 $2.83 $2.63

Time Wipe

Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Wipe Clean

Exile target enchantment.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Removal

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Containment Priest

Flash
If a nontoken creature would enter and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.

Creature - Human Cleric

$2.99 $1.24 $1.01

Doorkeeper Thrull

Flash
Flying
Artifacts and creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.

Creature - Thrull

$1.79 $0.96 $0.15

Eidolon of Rhetoric

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Creature Enchantment - Spirit

$1.49 $0.57 $0.25

Hushbringer

Flying, lifelink
Creatures entering or dying don't cause abilities to trigger.

Creature - Faerie

$0.79 $0.68 $0.15

Rule of Law

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Enchantment

$0.99 $0.43 $0.19

Solemnity

Players can't get counters.
Counters can't be put on artifacts, creatures, enchantments, or lands.

Enchantment

$9.49 $7.58 $5.63

Tocatli Honor Guard

Creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.

Creature - Human Soldier

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Torpor Orb

Creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.

Artifact

$7.49 $3.44 $3.29

Stax

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Vizier of Tumbling Sands

: Untap another target permanent.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, untap target permanent.

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Untap

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Turbulent Moor

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless your opponents control eight or more lands.

Land - Plains Swamp

$11.99 $7.55 $7.92

Turbulent Shore

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless your opponents control eight or more lands.

Land - Plains Island

$3.49 $2.10 $1.69

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $1,251.05

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.94Total Mana Value: 197.00

Quantity of

Blink

Burn

Commander

Copy

Counters

Cycling

Draw

Finisher

Land

Protection

Ramp

Removal

Stax

Untap

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Cost

32 pips - 27 cards

Production

19 mana - 19 cards

Cost

28 pips - 23 cards

Production

19 mana - 19 cards

Cost

12 pips - 8 cards

Production

17 mana - 17 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 2 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 2 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

16 mana - 14 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.94Total Mana Value: 197.00

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Red Spells

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Colorless Spells

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Blink

Burn

Commander

Copy

Counters

Cycling

Draw

Finisher

Land

Protection

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