Urza Stax

Commander / EDH Competitive Control Mono-Blue Stax

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Instant (28)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Archmage's Charm
• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Negate
• 1x Opt
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Whir of Invention

Planeswalker (3)

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

Artifact (24)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Arcum's Astrolabe
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Jeweled Amulet
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Proteus Staff
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sorcerous Spyglass
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Vedalken Shackles
• 1x Winter Orb
• 1x Witching Well

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rising Waters
• 1x Trail of Evidence

Commander (1)

Land (30)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 21x Snow-Covered Island

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Polymorph
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Windfall

Creature (1)

• 1x Tidespout Tyrant

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This is a Adaptive Stax deck. It wants to ramp with artifact mana while holding mana open with counter magic. It runs a varient of hard stax pieces (e.g. Winter Orb, Static Orb) that it can break parity by using Urza to tap on the opponent's end step. Urza can also increase your ramp by turning every utility artifact (e.g. Pithing Needle) into a mana rock. Urza wants to slow down and disrupt the game in the early turns, and try to win in the late game with counter protection. It wins by assembling an infinite mana engine, dumping that mana into Urza, and then playing out a number of win lines in the deck. The infinite mana engines are Dramatic Reversal imprinted on an Isochron Scepter with mana rocks in play, or using a Polymorph effect on the Urza token to search out Tidespout Tyrant. Tyrant lets you bounce and replay your mana positive rocks to net infinite mana. The simplest win con in Aetherflux Reservoir. But you can also loop Blue Sun's Zenith you mill out each of your opponents.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.20
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Clue, Construct 0/0 C, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	Ideas, Commander, Commander / EDH