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Commander / EDH* Control Stax UBR (Grixis)

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Artifact (20)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Blood Clock
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Conjurer's Bauble
• 1x Dimir Cluestone
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Izzet Cluestone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x MImic Vat
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Rakdos Cluestone
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Umbilicus

Land (33)

• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 9x Island
• 1x Magosi, the Waterveil
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Terrain Generator

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Arcane Laboratory
• 1x Forsaken Wastes
• 1x Havoc Festival
• 1x Impending Disaster
• 1x Mana Breach
• 1x Mana Maze
• 1x Manabarbs
• 1x Phyrexian Tyranny
• 1x Quicksilver Dagger
• 1x Slow Motion
• 1x Underworld Connections
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Vile Consumption
• 1x Yawgmoth's Agenda
• 1x Zur's Weirding

Instant (11)

• 1x Clutch of the Undercity
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Dash Hopes
• 1x Discontinuity
• 1x Disrupt
• 1x Mages' Contest
• 1x Meditate
• 1x Mindswipe
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Undermine

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Saheeli Rai

Commander (1)

Creature (12)

• 1x Braids, Cabal Minion
• 1x Chronatog
• 1x Coffin Queen
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Generator Servant
• 1x Kederekt Parasite
• 1x Magus of the Will
• 1x Mondronen Shaman  ^Flip
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Obsidian Fireheart
• 1x Soot Imp
• 1x Sygg, River Cutthroat

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Breaking Point
• 1x Browbeat
• 1x Curse of the Cabal
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Pain's Reward
• 1x Reality Strobe

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Sideboard

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Dawn of the Dead
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Infernal Darkness
• 1x Lethal Vapors
• 1x Stasis

Artifact (2)

• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Lightning Greaves

Land (1)

• 1x Glacial Chasm

Creature (1)

• 1x Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Choice of Damnations
• 1x Game of Chaos
• 1x Goblin Game
• 1x Prying Questions

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Volrath's Dungeon

Artifact (1)

• 1x Timesifter

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A damage dealing stax deck centered around Obeka, Brute Chronologist. I wanted to see how far she could be pushed, beyond just Sneak Attack and Feldon of the Third Path.

The idea is to make each turn suck so much that it would be better to just not take one at all, which is exactly what we'll be doing with Obeka.

Gameplan

Early game, the goal is to get out one or two continuous damge sources, then lock down the board with a stax piece. You might not need Obeka if your stax is something tame like Arcane Laboratory, but if you get intense with a Smokestack or Braids*, you'll probably want to start skipping turns. Consequently, you can push things like Smokestack much farther than most decks could, making it almost impossible for your opponents to do anything.

*If you're worried about Braids's legality, an acceptable substitute might be Lethal Vapors. You can avoid its bad effect by ending your turn before it triggers. As far as I know, Braids is legal in the 99, though.

Win Conditions

Basically anything in this deck could be considered a wincon, but some are still worth mentioning:

• Forsaken Wastes is slow, painful, and inevitable.
• Obsidian Fireheart can get really bad really quickly if no one deals with it.
• Manabarbs is going to kill everyone eventually (but probably your opponents first, because of your low mana curve).
• Havoc Festival is fun because you can skip your upkeep, bringing even your Ajanied opponents down to critical health in a couple turns without harming yourself.
• Zur's Weirding is weird, fittingly. It functions both as a stax piece and a damage outlet, with your opponents locking each other down while dealing damage to themselves. Or they could just conspire against you—who knows.

Card Draw

Skipping turns during the upkeep also means not drawing, so there are some remedies for that.

Browbeat and Pain's Reward both opt out of card draw to deal decent damage, which is a win-win for us. Doing them with Phyrexian Tyranny is funny.

Outside of that, Underworld Connections is a budget phyrexian arena, Quicksilver Dagger is nice, and Sygg, River Cutthroat will probably get out of hand.

Lastly, between Muddle the Mixture, Perplex, and Clutch of the Undercity, you can tutor virtually any card in the deck.

Lastly, because everyone at the table will be targetting you, there's some reanimation in Feldon, Coffin Queen, and Mimic Vat. Obeka can make these reanimations permanent.

Dang, this was supposed to be short. Comments and suggestions welcome!

Top Ranked	Achieved #26 position overall 3 years ago Achieved #16 position in Commander / EDH 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Control 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Stax 3 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 8 Rares 15 - 2 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.88
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Folders	Maybe, GoodTimez, Obeka things, Serious Decks