{"ops":[{"insert":"Get ready to cut throats and fly boats in a vehicle deck where Grease and Salt combine.\n\nThe Okiba Boss demands tribute, paid in the form of sacrificing all your permanents.\nFeaturing an all-star cast of MTG's saltiest stax pieces: Pox, Smokestack, Chains of Mephistopheles, and more.\nStax out the whole table leaving your opponents with nothing, and sail off into the sunset.\n\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Foreword:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nWelcome to the most hateful Greasefang deck on Archidekt.\n\nIn previous iterations of this deck, I had opted for a sacrifice theme as a way to get vehicles back into the grave.\nWhile that variant was fun and enabled some big plays, I often found myself losing longer games as other decks completely outscaled Greasefang going into the end game.\nOne by one, I removed sacrifice outlets such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Priest of Yawgmoth"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Oswald Fiddlebender"}},{"insert":" .\nThey were simply too slow, and difficult to consistently keep on the battlefield.\nI removed the big-mana payoffs. They kept getting stuck in my hand.\n\nAs I continued to cut, it finally dawned on me.\nI had been trying to build Greasefang to "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"go "},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"over"},{"insert":", but what I needed to be doing was "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"go "},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"under"},{"insert":".\n\nGreasefang excels in low-resource environments.\nA "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Parhelion II"}},{"insert":" in play on turn 2 will absolutely dominate the board, while a Parhelion on turn 10 will often struggle to remain relevant.\nBut what if instead of racing our opponents to the end game, we simply bring "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"everyone's"},{"insert":" progress to a halt?\nA Parhelion is still a threat to be reckoned with on turn 10 if nobody has cast a spell costing more than ~4 mana by that point.\n\nEverything began to fall into place as I considered other ways to deny our opponents' resources.\nGreasefang does not simply "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"support"},{"insert":" a discard theme. Greasefang "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"THRIVES"},{"insert":" in a symmetrical discard theme.\nWhile our opponents continuously lose resources each turn, our entire game plan will be "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"ENABLED"},{"insert":" by discarding!\nIt's simply too good of a strategy to not utilize.\n\nAnd so, Greasefang began to hate.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Strategy:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":" \nWe are looking to stax the whole table into oblivion.\n\nPunish greedy landbases with multiple forms of mass land destruction.\nOur own lands will be destroyed as well, but our deck will bounce back quickly.\nWith an average cmc of 1.6 (we do not actually want to cast our vehicles), and 34 (including mdfc) lands, we should be able to continue operations without much interruption.\nWith some planning, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Armageddon"}},{"insert":" into a land drop essentially resets the turn order in our favor.\nWe don't mind not going first as much as most decks, going later in the turn order actually gives us greater chances to nuke more of our opponents lands. \n\nBe cautious of our commander tax creeping up. We have intentionally included some "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Reanimate"}},{"insert":" effects to bring Greasefang back from the graveyard, should that option present itself.\nIf "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Crucible of Worlds"}},{"insert":" can stick around, getting multiple uses out of "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Command Beacon"}},{"insert":" will let us shrug off removal on our commander with ease.\n\nGreasefang needs a discard engine online to operate properly here.\nIdeal opening hands will contain repeatable discard, one of our high cmc vehicles, and enough lands to get us off the ground.\nDon't be afraid to mulligan more than once, the deck is designed to operate on tight margins. \n\nOnce we have a repeatable discard outlet set up, protect Greasefang at all costs!\n\nBecause our wincon is raw combat damage, it will take some time to kill the entire table.\nThe longer the game goes on, the higher the odds are of everyone else at the table conspiring against you.\nIt is paramount that we reduce the number of players at the table as quickly as possible.\nIdentify the player who will be the biggest threat to our deck in the end-game, and kill them first!\n\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Noteworthy Cards / Interactions:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chains of Mephistopheles"}},{"insert":" + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Weatherlight"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Greasefang, Okiba Boss"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fomori Vault"}},{"insert":" / etc.\nChains prevents players hand sizes from growing via draw. This usually means that players hand sizes will only go down, especially when paired with our discard effects.\nNote that many cards in our deck don't draw cards, but put them straight into our hand.\nThis allows us to hold on to our removal and other goodies, while our opponents are forced to watch their options quickly dwindle away.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chains of Mephistopheles"}},{"insert":" + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Anvil of Bogardan"}},{"insert":" \nIf a player has more than zero cards in hand, Chains replaces any draw other than the first draw of that player's turn with a discard + draw.\nThus, any effect which states players must 'draw and discard', will actually cause a player to discard one, draw one, then discard again.\nMost of our discard effects happen in the upkeep, but Anvil is unique in that it triggers during the draw step.\nA player with an empty hand will draw for the turn, then immediately be forced to 'discard one, draw one, discard one'. \nThis essentially locks players without hands out of casting anything but instants, and their commanders.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Spirit of the Labyrinth"}},{"insert":" + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Anvil of Bogardan"}},{"insert":" \nSimilar to the above combo.\nEach player will draw their card for the turn, then immediately discard a card (they can still use their one draw per turn in response to the anvil trigger, if it is an instant).\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chains of Mephistopheles"}},{"insert":" + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dark Deal"}},{"insert":" \nEach player's hands are discarded, then the new hands are drawn one card at a time.\nChains checks the first draw, and because the player has no cards in hand, it replaces the draw with a mill.\nThe next draw is checked, and the player still does not have cards in hand, so the draw is replaced with a mill.\nThe end result of any wheel effect like this is that players will have discarded their hands, then additionally milled that many cards.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Smokestack"}},{"insert":" \nThis card starts off slow, but ramps up quickly.\nIdeally we can get one of our token generators online (the majority of our vehicles will also bring some fodder with them each turn), and continue incrementing soot counters until our opponents are left with nothing.\nRemember that if we stack our upkeep triggers properly, we will not be forced to sacrifice anything until two turns after Smokestack hits the table.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Gibbering Descent"}},{"insert":" + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Smokestack"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tangle Wire"}},{"insert":" : \nIf your hand is empty, you will no longer add / remove counters, and you also will not be affected by their drawbacks.\nRemoved Gibbering for now, but may add it back.\nSweet little combo I only discovered while building this!\n\n---\nThanks for looking! If you liked this list, you'll probably enjoy this other high-powered jank stax commander, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Taniwha"}},{"insert":".\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4276001"},"insert":"See the list here!"},{"insert":"\n"}]}