CEDH Kambal Stax

Commander / EDH WB (Orzhov)

drexaviouse

Land (33)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 4x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Strip Mine
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath

Instant (9)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Artifact (25)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Damping Sphere
• 1x Helm of Obedience
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mana Web
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Portcullis
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Winter Orb

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vindicate

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Sorin, Grim Nemesis

Commander (1)

Enchantment (24)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Greater Auramancy
• 1x Humility
• 1x Imprison
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Kismet
• 1x Leyline of Sanctity
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Rule of Law
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Stony Silence
• 1x Tainted AEther
• 1x Test of Endurance
• 1x Wound Reflection

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Sideboard

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Smothering Tithe

Creature (1)

• 1x Crypt Ghast

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Maybeboard

Artifact (5)

• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Winter Orb

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This is my most recent build of Kambal Prison Stax CEDH deck. I have been playing some form of Kambal prison for the last 3 years. This build is the most focused of all the builds i have worked on–with a main focus on the classic stax cards (excluding smoke stack. In older versions i used to run a life drain package with cards like Debt to the Deathless, but i have found that version of the deck is to slow for the CEDH format (Most of the people i play with play Doomsday). If you have the cards or the cash you could add Tabernacle, Nether Void, and Chains of Mephistopheles, but those are outside of my purchasing power. I feel like they would add significant advantage, but not necessarily enough to justify the price of them. This deck is for the kind of person who enjoys playing magic by playing as little magic as possible. This deck is a sit there and watch other players try to play around your prison or stax effects. It is possible that you can become the first target in the group, but the deck is slow and likely does not present a threat for at least 6-10 turns. I feel like Kambal Prison stax has a good "anti-meta" position in any play group as it has ways to effect both creature-less and creature decks (mainly creature decks can be a problem which is why a good pillow fort package is necessary). Some say you need to be a masochist to play a deck like thus, but i see it as an alternate control deck. This deck at its core is passive control which allows the player to relax and enjoy being with friends.

I have listed the cards in the side and the maybe sections that can be swapped to have a stax core or life drain core within the deck. The life drain core is fun and casual where the stax core is for CEDH.

This deck has potential for 1v1 edh, but Humility, strip mine, top, and winter orb are banned and would need to be replaced with cards that function similarly. I don't this any of these are necessary to the deck, but they are nice additions and i believe they are required for multiplayer play.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 1 Mythic Rares 65 - 2 Rares 18 - 2 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.73
Tokens	Treasure, Vampire Knight 1/1 B
Folders	My Creations, decks i like, Slowly buy