Tana & Silas - Tokens Stax

Commander / EDH Four Color Stax Tokens UBRG

Mateus_Nogueira

Land (33)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Island
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (9)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Artifact Mutation
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (19)

• 1x Arcane Laboratory
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Land Equilibrium
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Mana Vortex
• 1x Mind Slash
• 1x Nether Void
• 1x Opposition
• 1x Possibility Storm
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Shivan Harvest
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (15)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Winter Orb

Sorcery (6)

• 1x By Force
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Three Visits

Commanders (2)

Creature (15)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Goblin Sharpshooter
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Magus of the Abyss
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Trygon Predator

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Xenagos, the Reveler

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Creature (7)

• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Harsh Mentor
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Nullmage Shepherd
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Sire Of Insanity

Artifact (5)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Phyrexian Altar

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Goblin Bombardment

Instant (2)

• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Negate

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vandalblast

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So, do you love Stax and enjoy the fact that no one at the table gets to play? But do you also love to see your board full of many small creatures and like to turn them 90º and cause pain and suffering to your opponents? Or even, do you enjoy abusing your lackeys, using them as fuel and ammunition for your shadow purposes? If the answer for those questions was "Yes", this deck is for you!

Before even the spoilers of Commander 2016 began to be released I already sketched a Whiteless (UBRG) Stax deck delighting me with the possibilities of wickedness. After the spoilers, at first glance, I did not notice any new commander who would fit very well in that role, and I even considered the possibility of using Kraum, Ludevic's Opus and Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper. But I thought it was a bad combination. After a few days I had an epiphany and saw the possibilities of Tana, the Bloodsower in a Stax build based on tokens, with blue and black as support, making Silas Renn, Seeker Adept her best friend. Oh guys! I could already hear the cries of my tablemates!

The idea of ​​the deck is to cast Tana to the battlefield and to lock it in the sequence using cards like Nether Void, Mana Vortex, Contamination and Winter Orb. In the meantime, you'll be filling up the battlefield with our commander's tokens, which will be fuel for cards like the classic Smokestack, Descent into Madness, Shivan Harvest, Goblin Bombardment, Nullmage Shepherd, Sadistic Hypnotist and Magus of the Abyss, which in this case ends up fitting better than The Abyss. It should also be noted that Opposition and Seedborn Muse with this large amount of creatures is usually end of game. Our tokens are also important for power plants like Xenagos, the Reveler and Gaea's Cradle, which in a game with lands locked, put this deck very much ahead.

Our other commander, Silas Renn, Seeker Adept is a coadjuvant but still manages to gain value in interesting ways, like returning from the Graveyard Aether Spellbomb every turn and greatly annoying our opponents who like their creatures in the battlefield. Obviously, Silas is also here to get back all those little pieces of hell that our opponents insist on removing, be they Stax artifacts or potentially powerful artifacts and equipments, like Umezawa's Jitte and Eldrazi Monument.

Did you like the deck? Do you have criticisms or suggestions? Leave a comment! You will always be welcome!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	W
Splash colors	UBRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 65 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.49
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, City's Blessing, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Satyr 2/2 GR
Folders	Control, Four color commander deck options