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EnCHAINtress.

Description of deck by it's author (quoted):
One of my favorite pre-rotation Extended decks used Merchant Scroll - perhaps the best card from Homelands -- and perhaps the worst card from the same set - Chain Stasis. Chain allows you to tap or untap target creature. Then its controller can pay 2U to choose a new target for a copy of the spell. A few years back I was sitting around with a group of friends looking through one guy's trade binder. Somehow he had accumulated well over a dozen copies of Chain Stasis - mostly as throw-ins on convoluted trades - and he could not get rid of them. We set out to build a deck that would utilize Chain Stasis to inspire local players to trade for the ones lying fallow in his book.

Since the deck revolved around getting infinite mana with a Chain Stasis you had to ensure that you drew one or the deck would fizzle. We eventually stumbled onto Merchant Scroll -- it was the first time I had ever included Merchant Scroll in a deck and the resulting deck will always have a special place in my heart.

The idea behind the deck is to get an Overgrowth and a Fertile Ground on a Treetop Village - it can't be one with summoning sickness-and animate your man-land floating at least one blue mana. With the blue mana you can cast Chain Stasis to untap your Village. Once that resolves you can tap your Village - this is why it can't have summoning sickness - for GGGU and pay to put a copy of the spell on the stack targeting your same Treetop Village. You can repeat this over and over netting a G each time making - what my judge type friends like to call an arbitrarily large amount of mana. With that mana you can use Stroke of Genius to finish off your opponent. If you don't have the Stroke you can always find it with Merchant Scroll.

You can also do the trick with a Faerie Conclave or even one of your basic lands. The Animate Lands provide protection from Wastelands and Dust Bowl as well as an additional three ways to "make a man"-land. Chain Stasis is no longer legal in Extended so if you want to update the deck it would have to be in a casual format or in an older one like Vintage or Type 1.5. If you do try to use Chain Stasis it also works quite well with the Krosan Restorer - although you need a Wild Growth-type card or a Mana Flare-ish enchantment. It also works with our old friend the Wirewood Channeler.

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by Brian David-Marshall @ www.magicthegathering.com

INFINITY: Treetop Village - Fertile Ground - Overgrowth - Chain Stasis