4
Ankh of Mishra
4 Pyrostatic Pillar
3 Winter Orb
4 Goblin Welder
1 Iron Maiden
1 Black Vise
3 Intuition
1 Ark of Blight
1 Windfall
1 Tinker
1 Memory Jar
1 Serrated Arrows
1 Urza's Blueprints
1 Wheel of Fortune
2 Gorilla Shaman
2 Triskelion
4 Su-Chi/ Cathodian
1 Mana Vault
1 Grim Monolith/Lotus Petal
1 Sol Ring
4 Volcanic Island
2 Shivan Reef
1 Strip Mine
3 Wasteland
8 Mountain
4 City of Traitors |
  Stax
U/R.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
While this deck is somewhat more expensive to construct than its
mono-red cousin, it is surely more powerful. The added search capacity
increases the explosiveness of the deck and the power of the lock. It
should be noted that Juggernaut is not an acceptable replacement for
Su-Chi in the deck because it is very mana hungry. Slax overall
has very good control matchups for the following 2 reasons.
1. Pyrostatic Pillar: Control decks
will often spend upwards of 8 life in an attempt to try and remove one
of these. It is incredibly potent against anyone running a glut of cheap
card draw and search, such as EVERY CONTROL DECK IN THE FORMAT!!!
2. Ankh of Mishra: With the number of Onslaught fetch-lands around in
the format Ankh is very strong right now. In combination with the
Pyrostatic Pillar it can put control into a bind where they cannot play
spells or land without going precariously low on life.
Winter Orb is nice, but not essential
to the lock. If you establish Ankh early enough and then Pillar, it will
be lights out for many of the formats control decks. Winter Orb can,
however, slow the opponent down to the point where you can resolve you
lock or a goblin welder and commence the beatings. |
SIDEBOARD:
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Bottle Gnomes
4 Rack and Ruin
3 Blood Moon
3 Accumulated Knowledge
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