Daretti Stax

Commander / EDH Artifact Combo Control Mono-Red Stax

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Artifact (39)

• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Manifold Key
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Damping Sphere
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Winter Orb
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x God-Pharaoh's Statue
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Possessed Portal
• 1x Darksteel Forge

Land (33)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Blinkmoth Well
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Eye of Ugin
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Mishra's Factory
• 12x Mountain
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Trash for Treasure
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Scrap Mastery
• 1x Boom / Bust
• 1x Decree of Annihilation

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Experimental Frenzy

Commander (1)

Creature (13)

• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Lodestone Golem
• 1x Karn, Silver Golem
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion *f-pre*
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

Planeswalker (6)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Karn, Scion of Urza *f-pre*
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

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This is a resource-denial control deck. The goal is to quickly establish your resource base and get out lock pieces ahead of schedule so your opponents feel like they're stuck in quicksand and unable to keep up. With the help of Daretti, you can even cheat in some nightmarish stuff early in the game. The deck wins by locking out your opponents with combinations like Karn, the Great Creator + Mycosynth Lattice , Karn, Silver Golem + Mycosynth Lattice + Unwinding Clock , Mycosynth Lattice + Vandalblast , or Darksteel Forge + Mycosynth Lattice + Nevinyrral's Disk .

Because the deck pumps out lots of permanents, Smokestack and Possessed Portal can be put to good use here with less fear than what your opponents might feel. Possessed Portal is especially useful in combination with Mystic Forge, Experimental Frenzy, Karn, Scion of Urza, and Chandra, Torch of Defiance.

With so many potential strains on your resources, the deck also includes ways to make lots of mana (with a wide assortment of mana rocks, Metalworker, and now Dockside Extortionist), but also ways to discount your spells like with Jhoira's Familiar and Ugin, the Ineffable.

The deck also packs large Eldrazi and artifact creatures with which to beat down (Karn, Scion of Urza is also helpful here).

Please be warned that if you play with or against this deck, the games can run longer than usual, BUT on the flipside, if you establish a stifling board presence, your opponents might scoop early without even taking damage from you. This isn't on the friendly range of the social contract for EDH, but it can provide a great challenge for both its pilot and opponents.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Darksteel Forge + Mycosynth Lattice + Nevinyrral's Disk Mycosynth Lattice + Vandalblast Karn, the Great Creator + Mycosynth Lattice Karn, Silver Golem + Mycosynth Lattice + Unwinding Clock
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.03
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Goat 0/1 W, Myr 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Treasure