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For those testing Sorcerous Spyglass, how many have you been running? I originally started at 2 but wanted more. I currently like running 3 copies since they can be pretty redundant in certain...

25 LAND
6 Plains
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
3 City of Traitors
3 Mishra’s Factory
3 Flagstones of Trokair
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Karakas

Graveyard decks take a lot of damage from Chalice / Humility already. My list in particular has 5 Oblivion Ring effects so removal is not a problem.

EDIT: there is room for flexibility in my...

Stax's main win condition is lockdown. I'm never going to win a race via a traditional win condition against their win conditions, therefore creatures are superfluous to the deck. Mishra's Factory...

Sorcerous Spyglass is hot new tech for Stax. Not only does it shut down problematic cards like Deathrite Shaman / JTMS / AEther Vial / etc, but it also shuts down fetchlands on the play. Having a...

Agreed that favorable matchups are in the range you stated, for game 1 at least.

Suppression Field does a lot of things, but it also makes for an awful topdeck, something Stax is already really...

Smokestack. Time isn't an issue most of the time since the deck rarely shuffles. Your turns go pretty fast.

- I agree that Humility is one of the stronger cards, but the decks that are hit hardest by it are generally more positive matchups. Ensnaring Bridge is more useful maindeck, IMO, since it's cheaper...

I'm back from the dead. I used to play Geddon / Dutch Stax extensively online on Magic-League via MWS and had some success with it there. Been playing the deck for about 9 years on and off, decided...

Yeah, last week I wasn't able to work on it at all but I've been working on it the past few days, it's A LOT of information so editing it is going to take a while.

Factory is bad because it needs Humility to be good on defense. For every time Factory is good with Humility, it's dead under Moat.

The two biggest complaints I hear from Stax players are
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I believe that Mishra's Factory is horribly wrong in Dutch Stax for two big reasons

1.) It's useless under Moat
2.) It does not tap for white mana in a deck where all its key cards have WW in...

While Moat is no longer the gg card it used to be in the Goblins / Merfolk metagame, it's still a huge bomb; people tend to forget that Moat is key in protecting Elspeth. As much as I love Ghostly...

In my Dutch Stax list, I've been running Idylic Tutor. It's pretty amazing since Stax's greatest weakness is consistency. Idylilic Tutor searches for any silver bullet I need, Humility / Moat...

If it were 4 mana, sure, it'd be the new Exalted Angel. At 5 mana though, it's too expensive. Any experienced Stax player knows that the gap between 4-5 mana is much larger than the gap from 3-4...

Here's my current list that I'm still testing post-NPH. Because I expect a lot of heavy control decks due to Mental Misstep, I just added 3 THRUN THE LAST TROLL in the sideboard, lol


Lands
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Why play Mishra's Factory when you're running Moats?

So here's the latest list I've been tinkering with lately.

Lands
10 [TE] Plains (3)
1 [LG] Karakas
3 [TSP] Flagstones of Trokair
3 [EX] City of Traitors
3 [TE] Wasteland
...

I've never been a fan of World Queller or Baneslayer Angel because they cost a whopping 5 mana. Being spoiled with Elspeth, I would never want to pay 5 mana for a VULNERABLE creature that gets shut...

I think I get by just fine with just 3 Elspeths. If I were to add anything, it'd be a SINGLETON Blinkmoth Nexus. Wasteland over Canopy IS debatable but Canopy does it all in my opinion: taps for...

Here's a criteria I believe every Stax list should follow. Every card must meet at least one of the following in order to be considered playable in the deck

1.) Card must be a source of mana...

Here's a list I just played in a Magic-League Legacy Master. I went 5-2 in the swiss and placed 13th overall out of 77.

26 LAND
X10 Plains
X4 Ancient Tomb
X3 Wasteland
X3 City of Traitors ...

One of them was 31 players, the other was 39.

I don't remember what I faced in the one where I took second except for the UW Fish knocking me out in the finals :/

The one where I placed 3rd, my...

Here's some recent results I've made with Dutch Stax

http://magic-league.com/deck/58795/legacy_t15.html#Armageddon%20Stax50747
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Yeah Q, I feel that your deck doesn't have enough creature control, I"d at least throw out the Juggernauts for Magus. Also, I think Ghostly Prison would be better than Tangle Wire. In my testing, I...