Hey there, i'm not really familiar with glissa but i think Executioner's Capsule is just bonkers with glissa, as you can always destroy creatures and take it back to your hand.

Thorbogl
Executioner's Capsule is a card i purposefully left out. it is a destroy target nonblack creature, which still seems good, but is slow, mana intensive, and limited. This card is great in a casual pod, but I'm trying to focus on competitive pods, where most creatures i want to hit are x/1. So Darkblast is the card i choose to act as a sudo Capsule. kills creatures to trigger glissa, puts artifacts in my graveyard to fuel glissa, and lets me pick another artifact that may help with whats on board, and not be stuck to returning a removal spell.

i've played this deck, please no more trinisphere 0/10 -birb

Drakengard_Sol Confirmed mad that he lost. Lol

Nah dude i won that game, 3sphere is just annoying pls

Hey there. As a fellow stax player I want to congratulate you for this wonderful stax build. How about using Death Cloud and Nether Void?

If you want to look at mine: Marchesa Stax - bow before me

MartialArt
Nether Void is a good card for stax deck, if you can abuse it. I never thought about it as an option with glissa as she can't get around it. It's a mana leak for all spells including mine, and i can't stop that. Saying that, i feel it's obvious how i feel about that card in here.

Death Cloud is something i could see myself putting in here, but only after pox. So while this card won't make the cut anytime soon, pox might. Currently pox is a soft counter to Ad Nauseam, which i run. So it would take some time to see which has more benefits for me. Maybe i can jam them both in and not get punished, but it will take some testing.

Hi, I'm pretty new to the Commander format in terms of deck construction: could someone please tell me what "stax" means?

T1Glistener Stax seeks to slow down opposing decks through resource denial.

I've been playing Magic for 4 years and I still can't remember most of the deck names.

+1 from me, good list. Honestly surprised to not see Executioner's Capsule in here, since most to all Glissa decks I've seen include it.

MRDOOM3 I actually explained my reasoning for not including capsule. Its one of the comments, to save time I'll just copy paste it here.

Executioner's Capsule is a card i purposefully left out. it is a destroy target nonblack creature, which still seems good, but is slow, mana intensive, and limited. This card is great in a casual pod, but I'm trying to focus on competitive pods, where most creatures i want to hit are x/1. So Darkblast is the card i choose to act as a sudo Capsule. kills creatures to trigger glissa, puts artifacts in my graveyard to fuel glissa, and lets me pick another artifact that may help with whats on board, and not be stuck to returning a removal spell.

Hope that helps explain why I choose to use what I do

I apologize if I missed an explanation for this or not, but have you considered running things that can make non-artifacts into artifacts to protect them? Things like Mycosynth Lattice, Liquimetal Coating, and Silverskin Armor can be used to save Glissa from The Abyss and effects like it...I don't know if they would hold their weight in this deck or not, but Liquimetal Coating has saved a few vital creatures for me at critical points in past matches.

I'd try that. Except, without the expensive stuff.

stax 4ever

Paradox Engine could be really good here, especially with all your Mana rocks. I run it in my Anafenza, the Foremost stax deck. It almost always means a lot of stuff is about to hit the board. Upvote from me!

MOOBS

You gave me some ideas for my Daretti, Scrap Savant deck. That's worth a +1 from me! Awesome deck!

can you explain why Basalt Monolith over Thran Dynamo ?

RavenedFuzz yes basalt monolith is a infinite mana combo piece

MillionLittleE I'm pretending to build a Glissa the traitor EDH deck. I don't know much of artifact combos and stuff like that. (real deck)

Atm I have only golgari stuff from Savra, the queen of golgari, but I don't want to run Savra anymore.

I love artifacts and golgari, and this is why I wanna go for Glissa. Maybe more budget than this deck...

Could you explain that combo, please?

RavenedFuzz yes i can. You need Basalt Monolith and Rings of Brighthearth out on the battlefield and 2 more mana sources. you tap monolith for three mana, then you utap it with the mana it made.the untap go on the stack, at that point you use rings to copy the untap, so now you have two monolith untaps on the stack. first one resolves untapping the monolith, then before the second one resolves you tap monolith for three mana, then finally let the second untap resolve. Then you just repeat, using the second untap mana to play for rings. This combo nets you one colorless mana per cycle.

Any thoughts on the Winter Orb Clock of Omens combo? Orb shuts down opponent's lands, but you can tap it with clock of omens so that it doesn't effect your turn.

It would also work well with untapping some of your mana rocks and keeping trinisphere from hurting you.

POP QUIZ: without looking it up, where did the term "Stax" originate?

The T4KS (the 4K solution, which was a vintage deck(ST4Ks) or smokeSTAX, depending on the eource. I swear I didn't look this up. ( Well, I did, but before I saw this post.)