Righteous Stasis

by KaynSlamdyke on 24 June 2009

Main Deck (60 cards)

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Deck Description

A wierder deck, Mono-White Artifact heavy. Solitary Confinement has been a card that has mentally stuck with me since I played it around the time the Kamigawa block was just winding down, so I figured a deck with it as a keystone would be fun. Shroud is the keyword here - eventually, everything in this deck gets it, and hopefully Indestructible as well. Life Gain is the second feature here, and eventually you win the game by sitting still. Naturally, that strategy is so full of holes this can't really be seen as a quality deck, but what the hell, the game should be about fun concepts, not efficient killing.

Holy Day and some cheap Walls and creatures stop the initial death you'll suffer when people attack, while you wait for the time to play a Solitary Confinement and a Book of Rass / Mind's Eye. When the later combos get going or a Marble Challice drops, Well of Lost Dreams replaces them both.

Layers upon layers of reinforcements to stop people destroying Solitary Confinement form the cornerstone of your peaceful protest (Mycosynth Lattice, Fountain Watch and That Which Was Taken / Darksteel Forge are the feedback loop of immunity here), and the aim here is to create an entire side of the table that simply can not be targetted, damaged and doesn't even need to block while you sit there and gain life via Angelic Chorus. Remember, Shroud only stops things that specifically say "target" and sacrificing Lurkers to a Blasting Chamber and bringing them back with the Valkyries aren't targetting.

At the point where your immortality is assured, your opponent shoots you an evil look and you both just wait to run out of deck - but hey, you skip your draw step thanks to Solitary Confinment- and that can last indefinately if you've got the Salvagers out. Orniphopter Life Support Machine!

The main deck forms the basis of a relatively inexpensive deck (average price for building it from scratch looks to be about $70 - it should be doable for far, far less) geared for a "standard" opposition. Improvements though are on the sideboard - and the one that I'd want in regardless of anything else? Phyrexian Dreadnaught. Swap it in instead of an Ornithopter and watch your life gain explode. But then again, I'm building this deck as something I intend to own in real life, and can't justify the $40 cost. Ivory Mask would be a nice addition against decks that aren't direct damage or creature heavy - again, drop the Ornithopters for it.

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  • Control

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

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