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Sygg's Labour Relations Incorporated

Commander / EDH 8-Rack Control Counterspell Discard Stax UB (Dimir) Unblockable Weenie

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Discard Payoff (14)

Draw (9)

Land (34)

Removal (5)

Stax (13)

Ramp (12)

Counter (7)

Damage (3)

Commander (1)

Commander: Sygg, River Cutthroat

Discard Engine (12)

Weenie (9)

Goad (1)

Life Gain (1)

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Draw (4)

Discard (2)

Discard Payoff (1)

Damage (1)

Stax (1)

WORKERS OF LORWYN UNITE!!

This is my Union Tactics deck, a build based around mimicking the often fun strategies that labour unions use to exert leverage. Stax effects represent workers going on strike, both your creatures and your opponents are on the same side in this, they just want to hang out, have a beer and stay tapped down. This includes the nobodies that actually farm Mana on various lands, they're part of the workers' fight. Meanwhile, the Fat Cat players get caught in endless 'negotiations', which is the Discard/Payoff part, representing them hemorrhaging money while crying tears of blood. It's loads of fun for everyone (not crying said tears of blood)!

This deck threatens wins mostly via a combination of discard payoffs and small amounts of creature damage. On the plus side, I have some redundancy in my discard effects, but my creature selection is not going to be hurting people very badly, even if I've got a lot of them out. The idea is to get Sygg out, hope desperately that you aren't in a creature heavy pod (you have awful blockers) or aren't the main threat, and just draw tons of cards, drawing into both ways to discard and ways to ensure more card draws. Still, I feel like with threat of early discard I might do okay, force people to discard things like bigger creatures I can't deal with. I'd like to think of some defensive solutions for this deck, maybe more tokens or reanimation stuff. I'm not sure if I have enough Counterspells in here, but I think with the theoretically high level of card draw, it will feel like I'm running more.

Would love to have some suggestions for some defensive solutions, I guess Propaganda is pretty obvious. Is the mana base playable enough? I feel like with all those rocks, I'm pretty likely to end up with enough fixing to get by, since it's just a 2 color deck, and it's not an especially 'devoted' one.

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What Bracket Does This Deck Belong In? — Feb. 21, 2025
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The auto-detect assumes bracket 1, but I think playing this vs people's fun theme decks would be akin to giving them a root canal without freezing? I feel like this should be a 3, but if Stax gets lumped in with Armageddon then it'll be a terrible 4? Yikes, it's almost like WotC doesn't like Stax.

Edit: So, not sure that I really need it, but Paupers' Cage exists and I have 4 of it doing absolutely nothing. Should 1 of them sneak in here? I feel like the flavor would be bad fwiw, and I'm not sure if I need another Rack.

Edit: So, thinking of upgrading this a bit, I wonder what should go for Frozen Aether, Vile Consumption, and Breathstealer's Crypt? Crypt seems amaze-balls with Sygg (and it punishes each draw, am I wrong that this card should maybe see higher level play?), as does Vile Consumption, and Frozen Aether is hilarious with almost any of my Stax pieces. I like that they're all Enchantments, those are way more sticky than Artifacts, and this deck has a LOT of those.

Edit: Also, I should look and see if I have a spare Thwart and Foil, those would probably be good.

Edit: So, thinking about removing Chasm Skulker, Nimble Obstructionist, and maybe Tangle Wire for Frozen Aether, Vile Consumption, and Breathstealer's Crypt? The abilities of those two creatures are fairly bad, Skulker isn't super evasive, and Obstructionist is 3 mana to hold up, which sounds awful, while Tangle Wire in practice seems to do very little, it does allow me space, but it also eats into my resources enough that I think Frozen Aether will always be better. Vile Consumption seems like a great way to nickle and dime people to death, and Breathstealer's Crypt seems REALLY GOOD in a lot of situations. FWIW if I pull some creatures it will help me with Breathstealer's Crypt, I don't really want extra if I run that. I am looking forward to resolving a Static Orb with Frozen Aether already out, people will just bang their head on the table.

Edit: I know it's a bad idea from a power level perspective, but I think I'd prefer this deck to not have any GCs, so maybe I should switch Tergrid for Tangle Wire? Could I pass this horror off as a Bracket 2 deck then?

Edit: Eh, I don't really have enough weenies to justify running 2 Coastal Piracy effects, do I? I should look at some better draw engines.

Edit: Maybe also Baleful Strix (1 power is really worthless, and ideally I won't 'need' blockers/a single good blocker isn't impactful over the course of a long game) and Nadir Kraken (it's a terrible body if I can't pay into it, and this deck has SEVERAL ways to make it impractical to ever pay the 1) can go. So, that'd be 5 cards if you count Tergrid, so I COULD add in the 4 relevant Shrines and Jacob. The shrines aren't very flashy when you have only 1 out, but as soon as you've got a 2nd one they become much more impressive. I like Jacob as low to the ground card draw, but also because once flipped it lets me advance my board potentially without spending additional mana, very useful with my Stax effects!

Edit: Weird and scary idea, but could this deck handle a Meekstone? I'd probably remove the 3 power evasive creatures that are just beaters, which would leave me with some more space for Stax... I mean, this deck doesn't want to be a weenie deck, it wants to be a Stax/Rack deck, so maybe I should do what I am trying to do instead of watering it down? i can leave the 2 power weenies that make opponents discard, they still do what I want to be doing.

Arbitrary Silence in the Arena — Sept. 21, 2024
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It's Organizing Time! — Sept. 12, 2023
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Maybe Some Stax? — Oct. 30, 2021
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