Green Stax

Turbo Stax! Here's a list that orignally started as a deck built around vinelasher kudzu( I truly wish that it would work, but the damn thing is just a target.) It eventually turned into a Stax Deck. I don't have time to go far in depth into the card choices or matchups at the moment, but I can give a brief synopsis. At the moment, you'll have to do most of the math yourself

Spells
3 Brainstorm
4 Crop Rotation
3 Enlightened Tutor
2 Intuition
2 Rude Awakening
4 Swords to Plowshares


Enchantments
4 Exploration


Artifacts
3 Crucible of Worlds
4 Horn of Greed
4 Mox Diamond
3 Smokestack


Lands
1 Academy Ruins
4 Ancient Tomb
2 Forest
1 Glacial Chasm
1 Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai
2 Nantuko Monastery
1 Nomad Stadium
1 Plains
1 Riftstone Portal
2 Savannah
3 Tropical Island
1 Wasteland
4 Windswept Heath


Sideboard (15 cards)
4 Constant Mists
3 Krosan Grip
4 Pithing Needle
4 Tormod's Crypt
The sideboard definitely is not solid. I haven't played in a year, and I just moved to college and I am unaware of the local meta.


Personally, I don't prefer chalice. I used to run it in here, but making use of many one-mana spells bumped it out. it seemed to get in the way more than anything.

Crop rotation= is such a beautiful addition, because you can pull almost any tool at instant speed. Some rather sick plays have been made out of glacial chasm and god's eye. Plus, academy ruins helps grab the central artifacts after they have been countered or destroyed.

Exploration =coupled with the good ol' horn of greed it allows for a great benefit, and it also let's you up the soot counters to the level of insane.

intuition= It puts everything where you need it. Three might be nice, but I feel there is little need, and I would rather run a fourth brainstorm, with the crop rotations and tutors.

rude awakening= one of my favorites. It was absent from the deck for a while, while the man lands did most of the work, but I found that there were too many games that I could've won, had I possessed something that handed me a little more instant gratification. Rude awakening is unexpected and hard to stop once it lands.

I would like another brainstorm and/or another intuition, but i am indecisive at this point in testing. Also, main deck Armageddon would be excellent. I need more testing and input.

It looks like an (goddamn) awful version of Eternal Garden, with no LftL for obscure reasons.

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Originally Posted by Tacosnape

The unbanning of Metalworker has led me to start playing a green-splash Stax build built around Winter Orb. Here's my list, at current.

4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
3 Mishra's Factory
4 Wasteland
1 Horizon Canopy
8 Snow-Covered Forest

4 Mox Diamond

4 Chalice of the Void
4 Trinisphere
3 Tangle Wire
4 Smokestack
3 Crucible of Worlds
4 Winter Orb
3 Powder Keg

4 Metalworker
3 Garruk Wildspeaker

SB:
4 Krosan Grip
1 Trinisphere
2 City of Solitude
4 Drop of Honey
3 Loaming Shaman
1 Powder Keg

The point is to abuse Winter Orb by exploiting the untap ability of Garruk and the mana ability of Metalworker, and it's full of small synergies that make it function. Garruk and Smokestack, Garruk and Winter Orb, Metalworker and Winter Orb, Garruk and Tangle Wire, Tangle Wire and Winter Orb, Trinisphere and Winter Orb, Trinisphere and Tangle Wire, Crucible and Wasteland, Crucible and Smokestack, etc. The deck kills with Beast tokens, Metalworker, and Factory.

The board intends to shore up weaknesses. Grip is versatile and strong. Drop of Honey is my recent replacement for Arboria against fast aggro, and it's invaluable on the draw. (Garruk/Arboria is neat, though.) Loaming Shaman is yard hate and a midrange threat all in one.

Powder Keg has proven to be necessary, though in what number I'm still testing. Keg kills Vial and is the closest thing this deck has to actual threat removal.

The deck has proven to be incredible when I'm not staring down a quick horde of threats, and I'm looking for clever ways to stymie this problem, particularly in game one in the form of something maindeckable.

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How can you splash for a card that is double coloured? How reliably could you play Garruk? Appart from that it's very surprising that you don't play rishadan port. It looks better than Mishra.

Actually, I don't think that green is the good colour for playing Metalworker. Green stax shines with non artifact cards such as Natural Order, Garruk, ESG, mana elves, Imperious Perfect. Black looks good with the Abyss. Blue with Transmuter, Master of Etherium and Tezzeret. Well, I've never tested, but it looks more synergetic...