Control Stompy

[TooCloseToTheSun]

// Lands
3 Flagstones of Trokair
4 City of Traitors
4 Ancient Tomb
8 Plains
4 Wasteland

// Creatures
4 Aven Mindcensor
4 Windborn Muse
4 Baneslayer Angel

// Spells
3 Oblivion Ring
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Crucible of Worlds
2 Ravages of War
3 Trinisphere
3 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
2 Armageddon
4 Mox Diamond

// Sideboard
4 Ghostly Prison
4 Suppression Field
4 Aura of Silence
3 Tormod's Crypt

This is a concept deck that I have been testing. It seems to have a good game against everything I have played against. It is kind of based on stax but it is way faster and also has a better game against decks like zoo.
Obviously you can run the other 2 Armageddons instead of the ravages.

Please, before you make suggestions test the deck.

[ykpon]

as long as you have tons of mana and all your creatures have wings, you probably need Moats. a lot of Moats. i guess it's the only reason to try white stompy over blue, red and even other colors.
and basing on my experience playing armageddon stax i can say that 23 is about two lands less than needed to support moxen. the other way is trying to switch them to the chrome ones as your white cards amount should be almost enough. though chrom moxen have worse synergy with crucibles. but do you really need crucibles in a stompy deck? now it looks like a stax with a huge number of unneeded finishers. if you call it stompy, it's only lock pieces should probably be only those ones which protect your fatties or those which are already built-in them (like mindcensor).

[eq.firemind]

and basing on my experience playing armageddon stax i can say that 23 is about two lands less than needed to support moxen.
+1
Some time ago someone calculated that 24 is minimum number in vacuum. But people play Wasteland and Sinkhole...

Also, how about World Queller insead of Baneslayer Angel?

[Kangaxx]

Why are you playing Baneslayer over Exalted Angel?

[Elfrago]

There was another White stompy thread somewhere in the forums, I remind it' was named Moat Stompy or something like that but I can't find it now. Maybe you could take a few ideas from there.

[stacker]

Please, before you make suggestions test the deck.

This is not how this forum works. It is not our imperative to test every deck someone suggests before we ourselves can make suggestions. We make suggestions based on experience and existing strategies.

And please explain your card choices:

Windborn Muse: if you're not running moat, then why a 3 over a 6 toughness magus? It will die next turn to any deck playing red. Do you play a lot of goblins or something? They have incinerators. Why not just board in Sphere of Law?

Aven Mindcensor: Do you play that much survival or natural order?

23 lands: Do you really think this is feasible with 4x Mox Diamonds and Armageddons? Do you ever screw yourself after casting Armageddon? You cannot rely on crucible to carry you. I agree that 24 is the bare minimum, optimum is maybe 25 or if you're comfortable at 26.

[stuckpixel]

This is crazy - I was literally just thinking about a control deck with a stompy base yesterday.

Do you find that mono white is versatile enough? Have you looked at trying to go W/u for some additional card draw and counters? The one thing about the stompy shell is that it tends to sell out to get advanced board position - and it can be very vulnerable to a timely FoW. And, even if you do get your board down, you're likely down to just a few cards in hand, which draw would greatly help with.

I'm going to try to throw together a list for testing here and see if I can make something stick.

What have you found to be your hardest matchups?

[Nihil Credo]

Your deck is perfectly at home in the Armageddon Stax thread. Please use that one, and add some content to your decklist so that your post does not get treated as spam.