archelos stax cedh

Commander / EDH* BUG (Sultai)

reaperrdnk

Land (30)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 4x Forest
• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 4x Island
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Survivors' Encampment
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Tree of Tales
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Confounding Conundrum
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Nature's Chosen
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Sprouting Renewal
• 1x Windfall

Instant (19)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Sundering Vitae
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Whir of Invention
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Artifact (17)

• 1x Damping Matrix
• 1x Damping Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Honor-Worn Shaku
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Paradise Mantle
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Smuggler's Copter
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Springleaf Drum
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Winter Orb

Commander (1)

Creature (18)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Grand Architect
• 1x Loam Dryad
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Runic Armasaur
• 1x Saruli Caretaker
• 1x Spectral Sailor
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

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Archelos seems like a cedh deck commander that would be good for a stax deck to slow down you opponents to a turtle's pace (chuckle). Use all the good stax pieces to slow the game down, lots of tap effects to tap archelos to tap all your opponents stuff down, and win with a simple combo. Packed with lots of removal (some free) and lots of control spells (more free) they will have a hard time getting anything to hit the board, and if it does, it won't stick for very long. With over 10 tutors you can find the things you need consistantly and easily. Use lots of hand interuption with days undoing and windfall. Combo out with either an infinite mana combo using grand architect and pili pala and draw out your deck with spectral sailor, or win with a demonic consultation line with thassa's oracle. The best part is you can find either of those lines with protean hulk.

You can also lockout the game with stasis, wilderness reclamation and a tapped archelos. Everything will enter the battlefield tapped and you can untap your lands each turn to keep em locked and either they will quit because they can't do anything or you can slowly grind em out.

A neat trick I thought of was to find an artifact land with either whir of invention or trinket mage. (someone else probly already does this but I figured it out on my own)

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.33
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Elf Knight 2/2 GW
Folders	archelos ideas