{"id":504,"date":"2018-08-27T23:38:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T21:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2018-08-27T23:38:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T21:38:36","slug":"brewing-with-andy-stasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premodernmagic.com\/blog\/brewing-with-andy-stasis\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewing with Andy: Stasis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello again, Premodern humans!\u00a0 Stasis<\/a> has been ruining people’s fun since Alpha, and it even won the very first World Championships in 1994.\u00a0 Stasis<\/a> decks were competitive at various points throughout the Premodern era, including early 2000s Extended, and almost certainly have a place in the Premodern format itself.<\/p>\n

What is the best way to build with Stasis<\/a> in Premodern?\u00a0 I think the strongest version is probably mono-blue, which allows you to exploit the power of Gush<\/a> and Thwart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stasis<\/div>
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MAIN DECK | 60 cards<\/h4>
Lands: 23<\/div>
20<\/span> Island<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Forsaken City<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Instants and Sorceries: 31<\/div>
4<\/span> Impulse<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Counterspell<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Misdirection<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Foil<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Boomerang<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Arcane Denial<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Thwart<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Gush<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Chain of Vapor<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Sleight of Hand<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Stroke of Genius<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Others: 6<\/div>
4<\/span> Stasis<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Black Vise<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

SIDEBOARD | 15 cards<\/h4>
2<\/span> Black Vise<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Chill<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Hydroblast<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Powder Keg<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Propaganda<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Submerge<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Deck downloaded from - http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\n------------------------------------------------\nStasis\n------------------------------------------------\nMAIN DECK (60)\n\nLands: 23\n20 Island\n3 Forsaken City\n\nInstants and Sorceries: 31\n4 Impulse\n3 Counterspell\n1 Misdirection\n2 Foil\n2 Boomerang\n4 Arcane Denial\n4 Thwart\n4 Gush\n4 Chain of Vapor\n2 Sleight of Hand\n1 Stroke of Genius\n\nOthers: 6\n4 Stasis\n2 Black Vise\n\n\nSIDEBOARD (15)\n2 Black Vise\n2 Chill\n4 Hydroblast\n2 Powder Keg\n3 Propaganda\n2 Submerge\n------------------------------------------------\nDeck downloaded from - http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\n<\/div>
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In the old days of the 1990s, Stasis<\/a> decks almost always used Howling Mine<\/a> to churn through the deck and keep finding outs to your own Stasis<\/a>, as well as blue mana to pay its upkeep.\u00a0 In my opinion, Mercadian Masques made Howling Mine<\/a> mostly irrelevant to the strategy, as Gush<\/a> and Thwart<\/a> made it so that you were continuously bouncing tapped Islands back to your hand, in order to replay them and keep making blue mana.\u00a0 The card draw from Gush<\/a> greatly reduces the need for Howling Mine<\/a>s as well.<\/p>\n

Overall, the game plan of Stasis<\/a> is pretty simple.\u00a0 Counter spells, draw cards and control the game until the time is right to drop the Stasis<\/a>, preferably with a tapped-out opponent.\u00a0 Deny them an untap step for the rest of the game by upkeeping the Stasis<\/a>, or bouncing it back to your hand on their end step with Chain of Vapor<\/a> and Boomerang<\/a> and replaying it on your turn.\u00a0 Black Vise<\/a> is the win condition of choice, with a single Stroke of Genius<\/a> to speed it along, kill your opponent all on its own, or just draw you a few extra cards.<\/p>\n

If mono-blue just isn’t enough to get you out of bed in the morning, maybe you’ll prefer the bonus deck this week: four-color Squandered Stasis.<\/p>\n

Squandered Stasis<\/div>
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MAIN DECK | 60 cards<\/h4>
Lands: 23<\/div>
3<\/span> Adarkar Wastes<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> City of Brass<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Gemstone Mine<\/a><\/div>
5<\/span> Island<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Undiscovered Paradise<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Reflecting Pool<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Forsaken City<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Instants and Sorceries: 19<\/div>
4<\/span> Arcane Denial<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Enlightened Tutor<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Counterspell<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Impulse<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Sleight of Hand<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Others: 18<\/div>
4<\/span> Squandered Resources<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Black Vise<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Equipoise<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Howling Mine<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Stasis<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

SIDEBOARD | 15 cards<\/h4>
4<\/span> Duress<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Chill<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Hydroblast<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Null Rod<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Seal of Cleansing<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Tsabo's Web<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Deck downloaded from - http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\n------------------------------------------------\nSquandered Stasis\n------------------------------------------------\nMAIN DECK (60)\n\nLands: 23\n3 Adarkar Wastes\n4 City of Brass\n4 Gemstone Mine\n5 Island\n1 Undiscovered Paradise\n3 Reflecting Pool\n3 Forsaken City\n\nInstants and Sorceries: 19\n4 Arcane Denial\n4 Enlightened Tutor\n4 Counterspell\n4 Impulse\n3 Sleight of Hand\n\nOthers: 18\n4 Squandered Resources\n3 Black Vise\n3 Equipoise\n4 Howling Mine\n4 Stasis\n\n\nSIDEBOARD (15)\n4 Duress\n3 Chill\n3 Hydroblast\n1 Null Rod\n3 Seal of Cleansing\n1 Tsabo's Web\n------------------------------------------------\nDeck downloaded from - http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\n<\/div>
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Adding white gives us a huge pickup in Enlightened Tutor<\/a>, as well as a card that combos very powerfully with Stasis<\/a>, Equipoise<\/a>.\u00a0 This card allows you to essentially Balance<\/a> your opponent’s board every turn, but it’s intended to work so that their stuff comes back at the beginning of the untap step on their own turn.\u00a0 Well, Stasis<\/a> shuts off the untap step, meaning that their creatures, lands and potentially artifacts will never come back as long as Stasis<\/a> remains in play.<\/p>\n

So what makes this a four color deck?\u00a0 Squandered Resources<\/a> is good enough in this strategy to splash the other two colors just for it.\u00a0 Rather than returning lands to our hand, in this version, tapped lands get sacrificed for extra mana to upkeep the Stasis<\/a> or play more spells.\u00a0 It can give you a burst of mana in the early turns to deploy multiple lock pieces and still have mana up for counterspells and Stasis<\/a> upkeep.\u00a0 What’s more, when you keep your land count low, you get to exile your opponent’s lands too with Equipoise<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Without Gush<\/a> in the deck, we fall back on the old favorite Howling Mine<\/a>, but this deck puts the opponent in a much harder lock than the mono-blue version, making it even less likely that they’ll ever get to make use of those extra cards.\u00a0 There are a lot of moving parts, but when the deck is firing on all cylinders, your opponent will never get to untap with a creature or usable land once the lock is in place.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s all for now.\u00a0 As always, leave feedback in the Premodern Facebook group<\/a>, or hit me up on Instagram<\/a> @mtgdojoera!<\/p>\n

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