Inalla Layered Stax

Commander / EDH*

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Land (31)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 9x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Strip Mine
• 3x Swamp
• 1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (12)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Creature (16)

• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Bloodline Necromancer
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Mistbind Clique
• 1x Naban, Dean of Iteration
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Wanderwine Prophets

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Arcane Laboratory
• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Chains of Mephistopheles
• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Psychic Surgery
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Stranglehold

Commander (1)

Artifact (15)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Chalice of the Void
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Winter Orb

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x By Force
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Wildfire
• 1x Windfall

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Thought experiment in Grixis Stax for Inalla.

Goal of abusing Inalla champion dances to work through stax elements.

Primary combos:

Buried Alive + Reanimate - Bury bloodline necromancer , Viscera Seer and Pawn of Ulamog. Reanimate the Bloodline Necormancer. Stack Inalla's Eminence trigger below Bloodline's trigger. Bloodline targets Viscera Seer, returning it to play. Sacrifice Bloodline to Viscera Seer. Pay for Inalla's Eminence to get a token Bloodline (tBloodline). tBloodline targets Bloodline, returning it to play. Stack Inalla's Eminence trigger below Bloodline's trigger. Bloodline targets Pawn of Ulamog, returning Pawn of Ulamog to play. Sacrifice Bloodline to Viscera Seer, generating an Eldrazi Spawn token from Pawn of Ulamog. Sacrifice Eldrazi Spawn to pay for Inalla's Eminence trigger, putting a second token Bloodline into play (t2Bloodline). t2Bloodline targets Bloodline, returning it play. Repeat as necessary to generate infinite bloodline keepers.

Stasis + Venser, Shaper Savant + Inalla Eminence / Naban, Dean of Iteration - Stasis lock with Venser for (1U Stasis) + (2UU Venser) + (1 Inalla Eminence). Play Stasis. End of turn before your turn, Cast Venser, Stack Inalla's Eminence trigger below Venser's bounce. Venser's Bounce targets himself. Pay for Inalla's Eminence putting a token Venser into play. Token Venser's bounce targets Stasis. Rinse repeat for permanent stasis lock. With Naban in play, this costs 1 less or you can pay the 1 to bounce two more targets.

Notion Thief + Wheel - Still good in 2018.

Champion Dance - Any Wizard with Champion. Stack Inalla's Eminence trigger above the Champion trigger. Pay for Eminence and put a token into play with its own champion ability. Exile the original. Repeat this process at End of turn to keep a creature championed indefinitely.

Useful Champion Dancers:
card:Misbind Clique + a Sacrifice outlet - Dancing during each opponent's upkeep will tap out their lands.
Wanderwine Prophets - Enough turns to kill the table with 4/4 beats. Sacrificing your token Prophet to take an extra turn after dealing combat damage with it.

Major lines of play around Stax.

Null Rod / Stony Silence
Buried Alive route works great. Champion Dance with Wanderwine, requires three mana in three separate phases but still works. Stasis + Venser also works here.

Cursed Totem
Champion Dances all work. You can use Bloodline Necromancer + Ashnod's Altar to do a similar infinite loop of Necromancers for combat but you cannot do the same Buried Alive pile as Viscera Seer is turned off.

Leyline of the Void / Rest in Peace
Champion Dances all work. Stasis + Venser works.

Torpor Orb
This is the most potent piece of hate against Inalla. It nullifies the Eminence ability and breaks almost all of our wizard synergies. Luckily for us Torpor Orb has fallen out of favor for graveyard hate right now.

Arcane Laboratory
Once initiated all of our champion dances and Bloodline Necromancer combos are all triggered abilities. This allows for an end of turn Entomb into Reanimate on Wanderwine and going for beats immediately.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.41
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C
Folders	EDH