cEDH Tayam Stax

Commander / EDH* BGW (Abzan, Junk) Competitive Stax

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Creature (33)

• 1x Allosaurus Shepherd
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Archon of Emeria
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Hexdrinker
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lost Auramancers
• 1x Maralen of the Mornsong
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Ranger-Captain of Eos
• 1x Remorseful Cleric
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Shield Mate
• 1x Skyclave Apparition
• 1x Spirit of the Labyrinth
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Wall of Roots

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Gideon of the Trials

Land (28)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Centaur Garden
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 3x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Plains
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 2x Snow-Covered Forest
• 2x Snow-Covered Plains
• 2x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath

Instant (15)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Blossoming Defense
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Commander (1)

Enchantment (18)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Deafening Silence
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Felidar Retreat
• 1x Overgrowth
• 1x Retreat to Hagra
• 1x Rule of Law
• 1x Squandered Resources
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Stony Silence
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Finale of Devastation

Artifact (2)

• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Sol Ring

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Enchantment (3)

• 1x Freyalise's Winds
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Titania's Song

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Eldritch Evolution

Creature (3)

• 1x Deadly Grub
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Runic Armasaur

Instant (1)

• 1x Shred Memory

Artifact (1)

• 1x Trinisphere

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Tayam, Luminous Enigma is a spicy reanimator commander, one of the few that can reanimate any kind of permanent instead of just creatures. The caveat of having to remove counters from things is a small price to pay to build up one of the most resilient stax boardstates you will ever see, since if your opponents destroy a piece you can just bring it right back. Main gameplan is to ramp your boardstate into a position prime to launch into a combo, while relying on your stax pieces to slow down your opponents.

Primary combo line is buffing a Devoted Druid by at least 0/+2 in order to make infinite Tayam activations, which will allow us to put our entire deck into play.

Secondary combo line is using Lost Auramancers and Animate Dead to tutor land enchantments and Earthcraft to provide the infinite mana and Tayam activations to put our entire deck into play.

Tertiary combo line is using either Gaea's Cradle or Serra's Sanctum with a way to sacrifice a land, and something that provides counters on Landfall. This works provided the land taps for at least 3 mana, and the landfall trigger provides at least 3 counters, to go infinite and put our entire deck in the graveyard hopefully gaining surplus counters and mana each time to allow for additional activations.

Once at this point, we have a couple of options for killing the table. The simple way is to add Retreat to Hagra to our landfall loop to kill the table, this also gets around etb hate like Torpor Orb since lands are hard to interact with. We can also win with a massive Finale of Devastation to punch everyone to death. We can also use Phyrexian Tower and Sylvan Safekeeper to repeatedly sac and recur creatures with nice etbs. We can recur E Wit to use Assassin's Trophy all our opponents permanents. We can also do a more complicated loop to recur Deathrite Shaman to win with infinite activations of that.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.00
Tokens	Cat Beast 2/2 W, Copy Clone, Emblem Gideon of the Trials, Illusion */* U, Insect 1/1 G