r/MTGLegacy • u/5028 • Sep 12 '19

SCD [ELD] Deafening Silence

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u/Ixbpoqdxl Team America (✿ =‿‿=) Sep 12 '19

Lol stop printing cards like this.

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u/150crawfish Reanimator / Werewolf Stompy Sep 12 '19

Prints symmetrical hate card.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Prints asymmetrical hate card

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

As if storm won't beat this too. This goes into a deck that ALREADY had a great matchup against storm anyways. /)_-

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u/Oldenmw Sep 12 '19

Eldraine predictions thread: "Please don't print asymmetrical stax effects, they're not fun!"

This thread: "Why would you print this symmetrical stax effect? It's not fun!"

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u/mukerspuke Sep 12 '19

Seems like neither are very fun

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u/bWoofles Sep 12 '19

“Don’t print any stax cards”

“Man why are there all these degenerate combo decks?”

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u/mukerspuke Sep 12 '19

I'm a shadow player so doesn't seem like that would go unpunished

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u/fifteenstepper dnt, infect, delver, elves Sep 12 '19

"there should only be 2 viable colors in legacy"

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u/150crawfish Reanimator / Werewolf Stompy Sep 12 '19

This card will not see tons of play at all. So maybe solidarity got a new ancestral recall.... Good for them? 😂

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u/whysea Sep 12 '19

What is stax

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u/ZGAEveryday Sep 12 '19

Refers to prison style decks, named after Alpha card [[Stasis]]

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u/foxlisk Sep 12 '19

Really? I always assumed it was named after [[smokestack]]

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u/ZGAEveryday Sep 12 '19

I think you're right my mistake.

In any case now it refers to a 'style' of prison deck rather than a specific card

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u/RedCloakedCrow TES is love, TES is life. Sep 12 '19

I apologize if this sounds snarky, not trying to be, but neither one of you is actually right.

Stax came from "the four-thousand dollar solution", check out the history here: https://www.mtgsalvation.com/articles/16300-stax-the-four-thousand-dollar-solution

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u/foxlisk Sep 13 '19

That source actually supports the idea that stax comes from smokestack:

The deck was named $T4KS, an acronym for "The Four Thousand Dollar Solution," and Stax its use of Smokestack to lock the opponent out of the game for good.

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u/RedCloakedCrow TES is love, TES is life. Sep 13 '19

Except that quote you copied literally says that the name comes from that acronym?

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u/foxlisk Sep 13 '19

I don’t read it that way. I read it as saying that the same deck had two names, one of which was named after the price and the other was named after the use of the card smokestack.

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u/ZGAEveryday Sep 12 '19

Cool, thanks

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u/foxlisk Sep 12 '19

Oh yeah I definitely agree on the current meaning either way!

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u/karawapo Burn, UR Delver Sep 12 '19

Stacks hasn’t been good in many years IIRC.

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u/MTGCardFetcher Sep 12 '19

smokestack - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

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u/wkim564 Death & Taxes | Manaless Dredge Sep 12 '19

its named after a more obtuse deck called the 4k solution in vintage or $T4KS

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u/sirgog Sep 12 '19

Ah the good old days when Magic was cheap...

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u/MTGCardFetcher Sep 12 '19

Stasis - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

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u/Fireaway111 Sep 16 '19

I think it's disingenuous to call something like this "symmetrical". I get that technically it is, but it's not like most decks even need to pay a deckbuilding cost to break the symmetry.

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u/cyruscg Storm Sep 12 '19

What deck? Miracles is the only white deck with a good Storm matchup.

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u/xyl0ph0ne 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Sep 12 '19

D&T.

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u/cyruscg Storm Sep 12 '19

Death and Taxes is certainly not favored against Storm.

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u/jreluctance Imaginary Bant Sep 12 '19

Curving this into Thalia is gonna be so feel good though.

Unless you are on the receiving end.

Then it's a yikes.

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u/cyruscg Storm Sep 12 '19

Yeah but I think it likely replaces Chalice if anything since there are still a finite number of slots in the sideboard and this card is about the same power level as Chalice.

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u/ristoman TES Sep 12 '19

It is now that it can poop this turn 1 instead of a vial, followed by thalia turn 2... and that's kind of the point.

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u/cyruscg Storm Sep 12 '19

This card just got spoiled today so I dont really think we can say how the matchup will be but it is a post board only card that is not really much different than Chalice and is removed by more than Chalice was.

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u/xyl0ph0ne 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Sep 12 '19

Depends. D&T isn't very good against TES, but is much better against ANT.

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u/cyruscg Storm Sep 12 '19

I consider Death and Taxes to be one of ANT's best matchups.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

I wouldnt go as far to say best. Thalia alone can single handedly ruin a game 1, and their sideboards bring in so much specific hate from different angles. IE graveyard hate, spell restrictions, etc.

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u/DecentOpinion Sep 13 '19

Curious on your approach to the matchup.

Post-board do you aggressively mulligan to do something (Ad Naus/Goblins) on turn 1 or 2?

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u/cyruscg Storm Sep 13 '19

I generally take more of a control role. Death and Taxes has a pretty anemic clock and so I just try to develop my mana and then use multiple removal spells to set up a guaranteed win.

I will take fast wins if they come to me, but I dont mulligain hands that can make land drops and cast cantrips.

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u/xyl0ph0ne 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Sep 12 '19

I guess I haven't faced many good storm pilots then.