CVT Stax

Commander / EDH* Artifact Combo Competitive Control Mono-Blue Stax

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Instant (27)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Snap
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge
• 1x Whir of Invention

Creature (3)

• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Trinket Mage

Artifact (18)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Chain Veil
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Winter Orb

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Verity Circle

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Commander (1)

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Windfall

Land (29)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 24x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta

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Artifact (3)

• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Power Artifact

Land (2)

• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Timetwister

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This deck is first a foremost a competitive CVT(Chain Veil Tefferi), meaning that the primary combo deals with these two cars - look up the combo if you don't know it already. But it has two main budget cuts ( Timetwister and The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale includes infinite mana as a backup plan the universally known Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth (also draws your deck with Sensei's Divining Top ).

The way to get to your combo is stacks. Because your combo, while consistent due to the The Chain Veil being so easy to fetch and your other peace being your commander, is much slower than most other tier 1-1.5 and sometimes 2 decks. In order to raise the consistency of winning the stacks package is particularly lengthy including some of the best stacks cards available (eg. Stasis and Back to Basics ) as well as several tech choices based on the decks my playgroup uses (eg. Torpor Orb and Grafdigger's Cage {side note: Cage is also just extremely good at shutting down storm decks and mono green as well as its use as graveyard hate}).

Also, this is a High Tide deck which means that there are few utility lands to make space for islands. In this version I include only Islands to help with constancy as I have found that other lands just tend to slow you down, although I would add that lands really are a personal choice and if you want to include utility lands go right ahead. The fetches are primarly for filtering and to prevent "Brainlock" (only seeing the same non-useful cards on top of your library usually due to Jace's Brainstorm ability.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	WBRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.51
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Emblem Teferi, Temporal Archmage