Casual Stasis Budget Deck

Dakkon555 · Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 31

Hey!

I wanna make a stasis deck for casual stuff, my budget is $100 dollars,

any1 have any budget stasis lists?

KeySam · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 495

Depends what you already have. I post here some ways to pay for stasis:

2x Undiscovered Paradise
1x Forsaken City + a way to draw more then 1 card a turn (to actually do something)
Birds of Paradise/instill Energy
Mind Over Matters + a way to draw more then 1 card a turn (to actuallly do something)
Capsize+enough mana
Obolisk of Undoing + enough mana
Agravated Assault+a lot of mana cretures Razz

(funny casual combo on its own btw)
Patron of Orochi+a island/forest dual land
A deck With reset and turnabouts+ graveyard returners and card drawers Wink

edit: Forgot a bunch of returners + card drawing.

Dakkon555 · Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 31

KeySam · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 495

Lets see

i look if i can put something together, but i cant gurantee its good enough for your casual metagame(dont know what cards they play)

Berzerker · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 44

I have always thought that stasis would work well with enchantments with flash and cloudstone curio, or undiscovered paradise.

KeySam · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 495

This deck isnt tested! I just threw it together(i didnt actually do the maths for the money, but i dont think it should be expensive(if theirs room left just pay better fetchlands or duals or stuff). Here the list:

Creatures
4 Trinket Mage

Spells
1 Zuran Orb
1 Pact of Negation
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Slaughter Pact
3 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Stasis
4 Duress
2 Obelisk of Undoing
4 Counterspell
4 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Counterbalance
1 Meekstone
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Frozen AEther

Lands
1 Urza's Factory
4 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Swamp
1 Academy Ruins
8 Island
1 Vault of Whispers
1 Seat of the Synod
4 Tolaria West
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
2 Cabal Coffers

No Sideboard since i have no idea what your meta looks like. The idea is obviously Obilisk of Undoing + Stasis. To get your mana a little faster i added Urborg and Cabal Coffers into the mix. You have a nice search engine with your Tolaria Wests and the Trinket mages. I have no idea how good this deck actually is. Maybe its a place to start for you or just do something completly else Wink

KeySam

Glull · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 23

4 forgotten city
20 island
4 stasis
4 brainstorm
4 propaganda
4 frozen aether
4 daze
3 counterspell
2 remand
3 chain of vapor
1 echoing truth
4 howling mine
2 chronatog
1 feldon's cane

just a very basic list, you could of course add more expensive cards like force of will to make it work better.

Hank333 · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 207 Location: San Antoni

Stasis is not casual. The only things that are less casual then stasis are world gorger dragon decks and decks that take infinate games or kill in 1 big turn.

Maybe my definition of casual is diffrent then yours, to me casual is big dumb creatures and huge spells then you can never cast in constructed. Also things like elves, goblins, reanimator, and otherthings. But not stasis and broken i win combo decks.

Glull · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 23

Trotsky1 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posts: 658

Garruk would work well with stasis (is there anything he doesnt work well with). Infact ive been inspired so much as to make a deck i hope is with in your budget garruk should maintain value for a good while also.

Casual Stasis

4 Stasis
4 Sakura Tribe Elder
4 Forcespike
4 Echoing truth
4 Counterspell
4 Remand
4 Mana Leak
4 Garruk Wild Speaker
4 Fertile Ground
1 Meloku the clouded mirror
1 Rude Awakening
11 Forest
11 Island

The basic idea here is too counter any early threats until you can lay and defend garruk then get stasis down. Then you can win with beast tokens, or by echoing truthing your stasis eot into rude awakening plus garruk overrun ability for the win if that is not enough by itself. Meloku is a random one off simply because its soooo good.

If your having problems consistently getting the combo or you find yourself running out of gas too much, you may consider taking out either the mana leak or counterspell depending on if the double blue or not being a hard counterspell is proving more problamatic for mulldrifter or something.

You could also add treetop village if you are playing vs alot of control and yavimaya coasts or tropical islands obv if and when you can afford them.

Hank333 · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 207 Location: San Antoni

Delicious · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 425

NahHolmes · Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 583

3x chain of vapor
4x stasis
4x howling mine
4x anvil of bogarden
1x time elemental
4x impulse
4x black vise (hey it's casual right?)
4X gush
2X thwart
4x daze
2x foil
3x counterspell
2x forsaken city
19x island

That's a pretty cheap stasis deck, the most expensive card is probably howling mine. Only problem is noone will ever play you twice with that deck.

gushatog · Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 65

Eldar · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 341 Location: Rochester

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P.S.
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