Estrid Stax cEDH

Commander / EDH deakmana

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Sept. 20, 2018

Out -- Mana Web, Forsaken City
In -- Porphyry Nodes, Scavenger Grounds

Mana Web has been a little meh. I'm testing Porphyry Nodes which I think will have a bigger impact on the board and lowers the curve. Forsaken City was in there strictly for Stasis and has been more annoying then helpful. Scavenger Grounds is in as stronger grave hate that's also tech against Breakfast Hulk decks running Grand Abolisher.

shadowmage says... #1

Id just like to point out that your winning strategy doesnt work. You want to create squirrels with earthcraft, but the squirrels have to tap to untap the earthcraft land and with stasis out, well theyre gonna be pretty useless to attack.

My deck uses the chain veil to make infinite mana, then ultimating estrid and getting heliod god of the sun + concordant crossroads to make infinite hasty 2/1 enchantment cleric tokens. this way is much better and you are already running the land enchantments. I would recommend seedborn muse for the turns that you have stax pieces out but dont have stasis out. It is a non-bo with stasis but is great if you have heliod out without stasis

August 21, 2018 12:34 p.m.

deakmana says... #2

It does indeed work, you just have to EOT kill the Stasis via Nature's Claim or Aura of Silence. After a lock down you just have to be patient to find them off draws or just tutor from grave with estrid. I didn't have that in the notes so I'll add that.

I disagree that your win con is better (at least for my build, not trying to knock yours :P) for the reasons stated why I don't run Chain Veil, plus 1. Concordant crossroads is a dead card except under the condition of the combo 2. Heliod isn't good by himself. 3. The combo requires the commander

August 22, 2018 2 p.m.

shadowmage says... #3

that seems like a bad plan to just "hope" you get the card you want. The idea of decks that chain into combos is that you get ALL your cards so you have the advantage of infinite mana and all your decks power. Relying on "hopefully" drawing into a removal spell while your creatures sit there is a bad plan. You are giving your opponents the chance to disrupt your board

August 24, 2018 1:38 p.m.

deakmana says... #4

If Stasis Kismet lock is out, then they're locked out and its just a way to close it out (there's no hopefully to it you just draw cards while they're locked out. If the stasis isn't out then you don't need the Claim/Aura in the first place and you can recur it via Estrid. Stasis lock by itself tends to get concessions by itself, but if they want to play it out, that's the path.

August 24, 2018 10:09 p.m.