Meekstone
Artifact
Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Trade
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| Want (2) | emad , Paulinof2 |
Printings View all
| Set | Rarity |
| Masterpiece Series: Kaladesh Inventions (MPS) | Mythic Rare |
| Seventh Edition (7ED) | Rare |
| Classic Sixth Edition (6ED) | Rare |
| Fifth Edition (5ED) | Rare |
| Fourth Edition (4ED) | Rare |
| 4th Edition Foreign Black Border (4EDFBB) | Rare |
| Revised Edition (3ED) | Rare |
| Revised Foreign Black Border (3EDFBB) | Rare |
| Unlimited Edition (2ED) | Rare |
| Collector's Edition (CED) | Rare |
| International Collector's Edition (CEI) | Rare |
| Limited Edition Beta (LEB) | Rare |
| Limited Edition Alpha (LEA) | Rare |
Combos Browse all
Legality
| Format | Legality |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| 2019-10-04 | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Unformat | Legal |
| Oldschool 93/94 | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
Latest Decks as Commander
Latest Decks
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Meekstone Discussion
v3n0m29 on
Pramikon stax
6 days ago
I would cut Academy Rector,Arena Rector,Magus of the Tabernacle, Mycosynth Lattice,Karmic Justice, Propaganda, Price of Glory,Ghostly Prison,Solemnity, Sun Titan, Sphinx's Revelation, and Meekstone. I saw on reddit you were looking for a highly tuned deck and the above cards really only have place in a casual environment.
Stax decks often run into the issue of just adding stax and hoping to win, but that just leads to long drawn out games with no interaction. First thing you need to do is come up with win cons. How are you winning? I see iso rev, but the only payoff is Urza. I see you have a few pieces of hard locks in place, but you arent including the often played halves (Drannith Magistrate,Lavinia, Azorius Renegade). Youre playing a blue deck, but running Price of Glory which removes blues best trait which is stack interaction. You arent running wheels which work great with Narset, Parter of Veils in both they stax your opponent while getting you a new hand. You are running a ton of board wipes which in a more competitive environment wont do much.
Approach of the Second Sun is a slow and casual card but right now it seems like the most consistent way to win with this deck so only remove it once you come up with better win cons. You're in the colors to run Breach lines, so maybe try to incorporate that? Why not runRest in Peace and Helm of Obedience as you are in blue and white so you specialize in artifact and enchantment tutors? Add the other halves of the hard locks, toss in Muddle the Mixture as an easy way to tutor for Lavinia and Drannith, and that should turn them from a magical christmas land scenario to something that should happen more often. If youre in red, you should be playing Dockside Extortionist as it is currently one of the best pieces of ramp in cEDH. To be honest, you really should check out this website (https://cedh-decklist-database.com/) and look at decks that share your colors and gameplan, and see where you can make improvements.
Cards I would add Windfall,Wheel of Fortune, Drannith Magistrate, Lavinia, Azorius Renegade, Dockside Extortionist, Gamble, Muddle the Mixture, Force of Will, Force of Negation, Mana Drain, Counterspell, Dispell, Flusterstorm, Mental Misstep, Ghostly Pilferer, Gilded Drake, Hushbringer, Rest in Peace, and Helm of Obedience.
Hopefully this helps.
StopShot on Counteracting large hexproof creatures.
1 week ago
The subject of this thread revolves around dealing with and counteracting against the commanders: Uril, the Miststalker, Sigarda, Host of Herons, Dragonlord Ojutai, Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, Thrun, the Last Troll as well as commanders that consistently or typically give themselves hexproof through various equipments/auras.
While it may not be the most prevalent strategy these types of commanders can be annoying to deal with. I'd like to create a discussion on what are the best ways to deal with these commanders. Given how niche these commanders can be, running cards that exclusively dedicate themselves to their removal may be detrimental to draw into when playing a game where none of your opponents run them. Therefore cards that can both combat massive hexproof creatures as well as still being useful to have if none of your opponents are playing with big hexproof creatures should be taken into consideration when deciding what is the "best" or "most practical" solution to combating hexproof strategies.
The first cards that come to mind are Arcane Lighthouse, Detection Tower, Bonds of Mortality, Shadowspear and Glaring Spotlight. These cards entirely dedicate themselves to combating hexproof strategies, and while this may be a detriment when used against non-hexproof strategies, these cards do lend themselves some extra utility. Arcane Lighthouse and Detection Tower can be seeded into your manabase so at worst they're just a Wastes however they can be more inefficient in comparison. Given that both are lands, tapping them costs you an extra mana resource effectively making their abilities cost to activate. Not only that, but they have no effect at stripping indestructible which can be a common keyboard which may be used alongside most hexproof strategies. Cards like Bonds of Mortality and Shadowspear cost only one to activate and they can bypass indestructible, however given they're not lands you have to dedicate a nonland slot in your deck to accommodate either of them which means taking out a card that may better synergize with your deck's main strategy in their place. They also lend themselves targets for counter spells and given hexproof decks contain white and/or green, artifact/enchantment removal will pose a high potential risk. This is all not to mention you still need to provide a removal spell in tandem with these cards in order to remove the threat.
Another solution is board wipes. Cards such as Wrath of God, Damnation, Day of Judgment, Supreme Verdict, Blasphemous Act, etc. Mass creature removal is incredibly strong given that its always relevant in most metas making it a highly flexible solution that isn't too narrow to rely upon. It's biggest drawback however is if the massive hexproof creature that needs to be dealt with has indestructible, totem armor or Gift of Immortality. Even a card such as Toxic Deluge can be a risk as you may have to pay a huge amount of life if the creature is incredibly big. Cyclonic Rift is another effective card. One thing to note about boardwipes are they affect the whole table which makes them also more likelier to be countered than by effects that impact a single individual.
A more narrow solution would be through damage prevention effects such as Story Circle, Forcefield, Runed Halo, Rune of Protection: White, etc. Given each card never "targets" they can be used to infinitely "Fog" a problem creature that you can't put up with. These effects are more narrow than boardwipes but broader than hexproof removal. Cards like these still run into problems with artifact/enchantment removal and they don't run enticing side effects such as drawing a card upon entering the battlefield like Bonds of Mortality or giving a creature lifelink and trample like Shadowspear, however you won't need to exhaust your removal spells to keep the large creature(s) either. In more broader metas such as combo, stax and prison, these effects may not be as useful however. More broader variants of these protection cards exist as Ensnaring Bridge, Divine Presence, Peacekeeper and Meekstone though these cards may make multiple opponents unhappy enough to remove them than the more narrower options.
The last effect used to combat large hexproof creatures is sacrifice effects such as: Fleshbag Marauder, Innocent Blood, Vona's Hunger, Liliana's Triumph, Doomfall etc. These effects can bypass not only hexproof but also indestructible, regenerate and totem armor. Their drawback lies in if the player with the large hexproof creature has any other creatures to sacrifice in their place. Because of this caveat this effect isn't too strong unless ran in multiples which can be difficult to commit to in a 100-card format. Instead selective sacrifice effects may be the best way to devote to this solution with cards like: Crackling Doom, Soul Shatter, Slaughter the Strong, Council's Judgment, Renounce the Guilds and Wing Shards. While these cards won't always guarantee the large hexproof creature will be removed, they provide a stronger case than not compared to most traditional sacrifice removal.
Lastly there are counter spells to remove hexproof creatures. While they may be the best all purpose solution they can be rendered ineffective if a Cavern of Souls or some other can not be countered effect is in place. With exception to Withering Boon, the biggest downside to counter spells are they are entirely exclusive to blue meaning other color combinations without blue do not have this option available.
Which method do you rely on to stop massive hexproof creatures? Is there a card or solution set not listed here that you use? If you happen to play EDH decks with big massive hexproof creatures, which effects annoy/counter you the most?
RiotRunner789 on
Thrassios & Vial Smasher Pillow Fort Buddies
2 weeks ago
Fatespinner might be worth a try. In most situations your opponents just choose to skip combat. The downside is they possibly stop attacking each other but it is a major tempo swing to lose either your draw, main phases or combat step.
Torpor Orb: They still get there creature just without its extra effect. I think this falls more in line with your 'don't shut them out of the game' reasoning where you wouldn't want to play Cursed Totem.
Ankh of Mishra: Similar to polluted bonds. If most games you tend to have extra life or you tend to hit your life-gain pieces often then I would consider running this.
Meekstone: Let's the big stompy guys swing once but normally your opponent just won't tap them. Plus, your deck looks like it doesn't really care about dealing combat damage.
Bloodchief Ascension: A good card to simply bleed your opponents and gain life. You could run the combo Mindcrank but I don't think you want to mill your opponents. So, I'd leave the combo out unless you just want a combo win.
Koskun Falls: Great card. It's a black version of Propaganda. You have plenty of small creatures that you don't care if you tap down. Stack the pillows, comfy, comfy pillows.
Tainted Remedy: Sometimes this is a dead card but when it isn't it is glorious. Turns creatures with lifelink into, "When this creature deals damage it deals that much damage to you."
TetrAggressive on
Arcades, The Strategist
2 weeks ago
Peligrad on How would you build Rakdos …
1 month ago
My Rakdos deck, not sure if it is what you're looking for, but it is Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger at the helm with all the Rakdos stax pieces. Stuff like Spreading Plague Ensnaring Bridge Meekstone. The idea is that Kroxa doesn't need to stay on the battlefield to do his thing, so you can play basically a creatureless deck and play lots of board wipes like Damnation Toxic Deluge.
The deck wins generally from Wound Reflection plus Fraying Omnipotence or from getting tons of mana from Black Market and casting a big Torment of Hailfire. It also has the Sensei's Divining Top or Necropotence plus Bolas's Citadel combos in it which works well because it has stuff like Exquisite Blood Gray Merchant of Asphodel Kokusho, the Evening Star in it to enable.
I will say that I don't play the deck all that much any more, because people hate playing against stax. But it is really fun to win a game where you're arch enemy at the table and your deck is loaded with individual cards that turn off entire decks.
RiotRunner789 on Good Commanders for Superfriends
1 month ago
Who needs boardwipes to protect from attackers when there is Peacekeeper, Ensnaring Bridge, Sphere of Safety, and Meekstone?
GoatLord on
Hardcore Tentacle Porn
1 month ago
MrKillStar Thank you for your suggestions. I am looking to pick up many of those suggestions such as Mind's Eye and Mystic Forge as soon as I get the money. As you know, colorless needs all the card advantage it can get!
You make a very good point on Deathless Behemoth so I will be taking that out.
I honestly have no clue why I put Meekstone in the deck. I think I was up late and making changes when I did that because that makes no sense.
Ghirapur Orrery is in the deck at this moment because I like experimenting with that partiular card. It's always on the chopping block, but is a good placeholder until I get the desired cards.
Thank you for your feedback!