Imi Statue
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Imi Statue

Artifact

Players can't untap more than one artifact during their untap steps.

ShreddedByCrows on

5 years ago

Hey there!

Nice brew, neat idea to counter those clunky and annoying Vannifars!

As smne who played Mono-W Stax for a while, with the amazing Hokori, Dust Drinker at the helm, I'll share with you what thoughts inspire me your sweet Linvala decklist.

(Even if it has already been pointed out before, I wanna say that I also love the Urborg combo. It's unexpectable and freakin' gud!)

Let's start by the beginning: mana fixation. Extraplanar Lens is insane in every monocolored archetype, so it's a quite logic inclusion you made here. Nonetheless, I suggest you to go for Snow-covered lands to synergize better with it - that way you won't give a lift to your opponents playing white.

Pearl Medallion and Sol Ring are basics, nothing really worth to say about it. Thran Dynamo and Worn Powerstone are more debatable. I don't know what is your budget issue, but if you want a competitve list, Mana Crypt , Mana Vault , Grim Monolith , Mind Stone , Everflowing Chalice etc. are all better options. Dynamo and Powerstone aren't bad cards, but they just come after those ones if you really do need a solid ''ramp'' package.

Opal Palace feels badly slow and ineffective in a monocolored stax deck. You won't win the game by taking up the board with your creatures armed of a little +1/+1 counter.

You have notable exclusions in your lands for a mono-white. Eiganjo Castle is the first card that comes through mind. Buried Ruin also is a recursive tool you should consider, even over Inventors' Fair . If you manage to find one, Ancient Tomb has its place there replacing Temple of the False God .

At its final shape, my Hokori decklist was running a powerful Crucible of Worlds package including Wasteland , Strip Mine , Dust Bowl , Flagstones of Trokair , Lotus Vale and City of Traitors . I was up to 39 lands, not counting Maze of Ith .

Now let's jump straight into your gameplan!

So... you're planning to focus your eyes on ruining Vannifar's day. To help with this strategy of being the nasty ''combo killer'' guy, I think you should put in some additional pieces of disruption.

That said, I don't know which Vannifar's version(s) your playgroup perform with. If it's a Thornbite Staff / Intruder Alarm one, things would be easier to calm down and you won't need such a heavy stax package - you'll need more single-target/multi-target removals though. And if it's the other one, certainly the most popular now (and also the most powerful/absurd), based on many shenanigans around the creatures Vannifar brings to the table, you'll need more stax support.

One of the very best cards you could add to stop all those creature-centered combos is Humility . This card is broken, this card is stupid. It even disables etb abilities. The only way your opponent has to go through is to destroy it with a creatureless source / or with a ''casting'' effect (like Ulamog has).

Single-handly, Humility tears apart most of the competitive Vannifar lists. However, based on the fact that it is still fragile to enchantments/permanents removals, you'll have to build a defensive shield for your stuff. Vannifar lists often keep a strong package of cheap permanents' removals in their pocket (like Beast Within for example), so you'll need to play carefully.

There's a lot of different ways you can head in order to reinforce your permanents' presence on the battlefield. A pretty simple and most of the time effective, despite of its ccm, you already included is Avacyn, Angel of Hope . I think you still lack a way to cheat her casting cost out to make her a stable and destructive power house.

Stax ''enchantment'' strategy is imo one of the most viable and solid strategy. With Academy Rector (amazing alongside your High Market ), you'll be able to search the exact piece you need to lock the game in your favor.

Notable stax exclusions :

Other cards to consider :

A bunch of meta depending stax tools :

Cards I'd cut from your list :

  • Martyr's Bond > Slow and unreliable on this brew. As you're not sacrificing any kind of permanent on your own, you'll struggle to get any value out of it outside of a lost political blast deflagrating when the game should already be over. Unless you add in some cards like World Queller , it defenitly doesn't deserve a slot imo.

  • Norn's Annex > 4 life + 3 mana for a worse Ghostly Prison . And I wouldn't even play Ghostly Prison there.

  • Bishop of Rebirth > a lot of people seems to give love to this card recently. However, I personally think it is just a bad inclusion. You spend 5 mana on a understated body and you have to wait a whole turn before getting value out of it IF you are in the researched scenario. There will be times where you have Boots or Greaves on board and this will be an insane mini-Sun Titan, but the situation is too rare to justify its presence.

  • Sublime Archangel > No real interest here. Good creature but doesn't provide anything for the stax strategy.

  • Gift of Immortality / True Conviction > weird ''win con'' heavily situational cards based on creatures. There is some logic behind Gift, but it's just too much of a unreliable idea. True Conviction has nothing to do here... it's 6 mana spend to lose the control on the game. If you're searching for card advantage and a bit of healing, go for the brand new Dawn of Hope (also is a good mana sink).

  • Rout > There are plenty better aoe in W. Wrath of God , Sunscour , Fumigate , Day of Judgment , End Hostilities , etc. If you want the instant option, just run Vedalken Orrery .

  • Blackblade Reforged > intersting alternative win con. Feels slow nonetheless.

  • Emeria Shepherd > too slow for my liking.

  • Whispersilk Cloak > can't understand what this does in a deck full of flyiers and tapping effects.

Finally, as you want to challenge Vannifar, which is a blue deck, you'll need something to deal with the classical Cyclonic Rift . Teferi's Protection is a good solution (and it could also protects you form a lot of various situations / removals / etc.), but I'm sure you can find a lot of other response.

I hope you'll find useful ideas in this comment. Thanks a lot for sharing this, it reminds me good times. Keep up the good work, keep up brewing!

TheDeckMaker2300 on List of Interesting cards some may have forgotten

5 years ago

Part 2

Urborg Justice oh you just played In Garruk's Wake esc card I'm taking you down with me.

Well of Knowledge if you pay a fee we will grant you a bonus card for your draw step

Avenger en-Dal once per turn and only during combat but we got a machine gun of exile attackers

Spiritual Asylum let's buy some time to get ready for battle shall we

Kill Switch holy crud the breya ramp is getting to fast ...HIT THE EMEGENCY STOP QUICK!!!

Imi Statue looky looky Winter Orb for artifacts

Dust Elemental for two more mana a Whitemane Lion but two additional creatures and it can do itself...nice flicker and panic button use

Treacherous Urge you heard of Slave of Bolas right well this one can steal and sac from the hands of opponents and let's not forget stuff like Telepathy

Detritivore delicious nonbasic land removal that's untouchable and the chances of targets being on the field same odds of finding a cow on a field near a farm

Mana Maze oh that's evil star especially since I'm using it in eldrazi decks with devoid cards wich is a loop hole around this.

Backlash another Reflect Damage catergory card

Hammer Mage a driver for the street sweeper of artifact cards in play

Fountain Watch just play a Asceticism with this and you just gave your whole board immunity to spells and abilities

Volcanic Wind hmmmm only six to do easily atleast 20+ damage to creatures and sweep...amazing

Once a upon a time someone just cast Wrath of God esc card then all the sudden I play Natural Affinity then after resolve I cast Eerie Interlude or Teferi's Protection and either resolve every one surrenders and possible a table flip happens because now it sweeps the lands and creatures excepts mine the end.

Centaur Omenreader how convenient I also have a Cryptolith Rite in play

Thermopod only red but that's Phyrexian Altar on a creature

Soulquake a board sweep and group hug at the same time sweet

Sages of the Anima and this isn't a Animar staple because?

Fight to the Death hey I also played a all creatures are forced to block a particular creature escape card earlier board sweep for one player

Death Pits of Rath let's give everything deathtouch even instants/sorcery plus this is a budget No Mercy

Nature's Revolt no need for Living Plane this only needs a few coins to buy living plane needs Benjamin franklin bills

Head Games / Jester's Mask lets rig a opponent's hand with nothing but junk

Balancing Act is that what I... IT IS!!!

A LOOP HOLE OF PLAYING Balance !!!

Teferi's Protection your board then they have to sacrifice all the permanents

Well hope you like my stuff might have more in the future

TheDuggernaught on ▷ Modern Scarab God LandLock COMBO! ◁ 【HOU!!】

6 years ago

I played a similar list to this last night and did fairly well! Had tron in two of my three matches though, which kind of sucked. One difference is I ran 2 Trophy Mages. I was kind of torn between 1-2, as he is honestly the worst card in the deck, but the reason I kept him as a 2-of is that he can so easily grab Quicksilver Fountain, Crucible of Worlds (which also allows Ghost Quarter to combo with Quicksilver Fountain), my 1-of Filigree Familiar, or any of my 3 cmc artifact sb tech (Vedalken Shackles, Ensnaring Bridge, Sword of Light and Shadow, and Imi Statue) What are your thoughts on running Trophy Mage for the added ability to grab some pretty neat sb tech? A 2/2 for 3 is pretty meh, but he can act as a body to buy a turn before a board wipe which can then be reanimated with The Scarab God.

lagotripha on Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

7 years ago

I like the idea here, I'm tinkering and think it might work best as a Nahiri's Wrath control setup. Lotus Bloom is a fantastic card, but it does leave you with one less card in hand for 2 turns, so that should be taken into account. Telling Time could be Peer Through Depths as you're gonna be trying to cope with dead cards anyway, so topdeck control is likely less valuable than digging for an answer T2-3.

I feel like a Trophy Mage toolbox setup to search out spellweaver helix and mimic vat will be optimal, as it also gives access to Ensnaring Bridge. Damping Matrix/Imi Statue and Trinisphere, or a Fist of Suns/Inspiring Statuary combo. The only issue is the amount of affinity hate around, which would screw with reliability.

Sin Prodder and Nahiri's Wrath feel functional, but I don't know how well they'll actually fit into things- sorcery speed isn't really what you want for non-discard control. A little bit of me wants to cascade into Wheel of Fate then for ultimate BM, discard and card draw, but it feels cheap and gimicky.

The problem I've always had with the huge-huge spells style is that they spend most of the game as a blank card, so it tends to 'gum up' a deck's draws and hands unless you have a way of running less of them. Running just searing wind and instant search like Mystical Teachings might work, but then its just a different wincon on a mystical teachings deck.

All told, interesting idea- not sure quite how to pull it off, short of the weird mill variant I made. Good luck and happy brewing.

level1cleric on

8 years ago

I would say remove Akuta, Born of Ash, Phantom General, Deathknell Kami, Disowned Ancestor, Imi Statue, and Ghost Warden

and don't forget to add in Chromatic Lantern

theorem13 on How does Imi Statue + …

8 years ago

Imi Statue specifies players. So in general I would count. So I knew I was good there. And I know Unwinding Clock won't affect me on my turn. I just wanted to verify as I've seen the combo used before but just recently learned the whole can't mechanic and still don't fully grasp it (and they broke the rule). As I've been out of magic for awhile. Thanks for the help. :)

Tunde on How does Imi Statue + …

8 years ago

Well first, Imi Statue says that you cannot untap more than one artifact during "their" untap steps. Therefor, it doesn't even affect you on another players turn. Second, Unwinding Clock does not affect you during your own untap step. So in short, you could untap all of your artifacts during other players' turns but only one during your own.

theorem13 on How does Imi Statue + …

8 years ago

If I understand correctly, no one would be able to untap more than one artifact per turn. But with Unwinding Clock I could untap all my artifacts on their turns. Now what gets me is my turn. Wouldn't the can't rule of Imi Statue override me being able to untap all of my artifacts, so I'd only get to untap one per turn? I'm looking at this for an interaction between Kill Switch and Mycosynth Lattice.