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Left Björn Ortmann (second place), middle Sebastian Ziesche (first place) and right Jochen Korbel ( fifth place)

A new Highlander was born in Frankfurt yesterday, at the Highlander Cup in Maintal near Frankfuhrt - Sebastian Ziesche! Sebastian is one of the players who are suported through Magic Tutor. Bjoern Ortmann took second place. Jochen Korbel also a Magic Tutor supported player and Highlander GP 2010 winner finished in fifth place this year. We congratulate all the winners and look forward to the next Highlander Cup.

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Hi all,

what a trouble with my first thread hrhr.
Im very bussy atm.

@ Nastaboi  good thoughts, i cutet all the artifactlands for a basic and a fetch and the 3rd dont know. To play all Duals are testet and works well atm. To Play 10 Fetchs is good but 6-8 are eneught in here i think and testet.

@ Kassow-Rossing  i think you are like the deck so much that you must defense it (you are worked hard on the groundversion of it over years and still test new things) :-) thats ok - i love it also  :-)

@ gerry wasn stress du mit mir hast zzzzz :-)

Gruß
Jan

Hi Topas,

i played the Deck on the Hanau Grandprix in a little different constelation and reached place 33. All other Staxx are on the places 50+ so i never had a problem with agro decks, RDW never had a chance, ww and all others they got no carddraw. So 5c Agro are harder but can be handle. Control decks with many counters kill my staxx sometimes. I never seen gaddock against me so it never was a problem. Bad Moon etc. are only a problem on turn 3/4 at this time i have manaartifacts and crush the lands. Last game i played against the winner of the last grandprix jochen was standing 1/1 firstgame easy game, second for him and the last game was hard for him. he plays stoneforge, sword etc etc. i was at 7 live so i played a wrath of god all gone, next turn i played armagedon, and then i played moat, two turns after he is on one land i play karn, so 10 turns after i had round about 25 cards on the table 2 titans carn on 44 etc. and thats the great thing on this deck it sucks and this many times. Fast agros like ww, rdw put me on 2 live then wrath, batterskull, faiths, oath etc bring me back into game and hes on one handcard - the staxx is a pure great topdeck deck.  I put new in the Deck a Day, Abyss, 2 Manaartifacts and Venser Planeswalker. So Venser is ultimative in this deck - every round a 4counter tangle wire, titans with 2 effects each turn, a moat that gone so i can atack, etc. etc. Staxx has so many killoptions and so many stalling effects and it works. A frend plays a Staxxvariant with 9 Plainswalkers and i think 15 Creatures thats so agressive but he have problems against other removal stall decks more then i. I love to stall the game, play combos on the table and my oponent has to handle all the shit. So 4/5c agros can play entchantment/artifact removal so thats cool but they only play 4-5 in a deck and whats with all the massremoval from my side, the plainswalkers, oath into big creatures. Agro is the best Metadeck you can play but staxx can handle it.

reguards
jan

I'd replace Khalni Gem and Darksteel Ignot with 2cc stones. Mind Stone and Everflowing Chalice are great while colorless, and I like Mirrodin talismans more than signets.

Overall, I'd stick to either three main colors with slight splashes, or even two main colors with single splash. Pure five-color is doable, but you should still press some colors more than others.

While Khalni Gem really looks bad on paper, it turned out to be really great in stax. Not only colorfixing for all 2colored spells, futhermore pushing your strategy as silencesoul alrdy said (combination with landdestruction). I would not cut it atm, because there is no better colorfixing in that slot.


I kinda wanna discuss: Use burning of xinye as 2nd Wildfire or go for destructive force. I know wildfire2 does not kill baneslayer, but that can also be a problem, if the angel hits the wrong site of the table.

Btw is frost titan really better than inferno titan?

Yeah, Frost Titan is such a great thing. In Combination with stall cards like Winter Orb, Tanglewire etc. and it blocks essential cards. Sometimes it frees the way throught oponents lines to hit him in his balls :-). Inferno Titan only makes 3 Damage WTF :-). I make some changes atm i think about Karn, Venser Planeswalker so all Titans with Venser i think GG, cut Braids and get 2 more Manaartifacts in, more Massremoval like Day of Judgement. Batterskull its a twist i think about adding Stoneforge & a Sword for all the Tokenmachines. But for now i love this deck how it is. 

Mh, i played the deck round about 200 times and in 25 tornaments. And i had never problems with my manabase some of the lands like the artifact ones i have in the list are there for a little switch in the deck for some other cards like mox opal etc. The kalni gemme is so beautyfull when you play it with armageddon etc  and play like you had mana as normal etc.

[Mana-Lands (34):]

Hi,

here are my little pimped Planeswalker-Oath-Effectcreature-5c-Staxx:

Mana-Lands (34):
- All ten Duals
- Flooded Strand
- Misty Rainforest
- Polluted Delta
- Arid Mesa
- Scalding Tarn
- Marsh Flats
- Windswept Heat
- Exotic Orchard
- City of Brass
- Seat of the Synod
- Darksteel Ctadel
- Ancient Den
- Ancient Tomb
- Flagstones of Trokair
- City of Traitors
- Rishadan Port
- Volrath's Stronghold
- Glimmervoid
- Mishras Workshop
- Mishra's Factory
- Wasteland
- Dust Bowl
- Tendo-Icebridge
- Academy Ruins

Stall Lands (2):
- Tabernacle
- Maze of Ith

Creatures (7):
- Baneslayer Angel
- Braids
- Wurmcoil Engine
- Frost Titan
- Primeval Titan
- Sun titan
- Grave Titan

Mana Artifact (12):
- Coalition Relic
- Guilded Lotus
- Grim Monolith
- Mox Diamond
- Thran Dynamo
- Khalni-Gemme
- Darksteelsteel Ignot
- Azorius Signet
- Simic Signet
- Orzhov Signet
- Selesnya Signet
- Worn Powerstone

Other Artifacts (11)
- Tangle Wire
- Winter Orb
- Batterskull
- Smokestack
- Expedition Map
- Crucible of Worlds
- Memory Jar
- Static Orb
- Sensei's Divining Top
- Thopter Foundry
- Sword of the Meek

Instants (5):
- Gifts Ungiven
- Tainted Pact
- Fact or Fiction
- Mana Drain
- Thirst for Knowledge

Sorcery (13):
- Armageddon
- Revages of War
- Burning of Xinye
- Inferno
- Wildfire
- Devastation
- Vindicate
- Maelstrom Pulse
- Demonic Tutor
- Bribery
- Timetwister
- Wrath of God
- Damnation

Entchantment (9):
- Nether Void
- Moat
- Collective Restraint
- Awakening Zone
- Rising Waters
- Oblivion Ring
- Bitterblossom
- Oath of Druids
- Faith'S Fetters


Planeswalker (7):
- Ajani Vengeant
- Garruk Wildspeaker
- Karn Liberated
- Elspeth, Knight Errant
- Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
- Elspeth Tirel
- Tezzeret the Seeker
- Jace The Mind Sculptor


Its a Agro & Agro-Handle-Stacks-Variant, so its perfect for the Meta at the moment.

Reguards
Jan

[Mana-Lands (34):]

Hi,

here are my pimped Staxx:

Mana-Lands (34):

- All ten Duals
- Flooded Strand
- Misty Rainforest
- Polluted Delta
- Arid Mesa
- Scalding Tarn
- Marsh Flats
- Windswept Heat
- Exotic Orchard
- City of Brass
- Seat of the Synod
- Darksteel Ctadel
- Ancient Den
- Ancient Tomb
- Flagstones of Trokair
- City of Traitors
- Rishadan Port
- Volrath's Stronghold
- Glimmervoid
- Mishras Workshop
- Mishra's Factory
- Wasteland
- Dust Bowl
- Tendo-Icebridge
- Academy Ruins

Stall Lands (2):
- Tabernacle
- Maze of Ith

Creatures (7):
- Baneslayer Angel
- Braids
- Wurmcoil Engine
- Frost Titan
- Primeval Titan
- Sun titan
- Grave Titan

Mana Artifact (12):
- Coalition Relic
- Guilded Lotus
- Grim Monolith
- Mox Diamond
- Thran Dynamo
- Khalni-Gemme
- Darksteelsteel Ignot
- Azorius Signet
- Simic Signet
- Orzhov Signet
- Selesnya Signet
- Worn Powerstone

Other Artifacts (11)
- Tangle Wire
- Winter Orb
- Batterskull
- Smokestack
- Expedition Map
- Crucible of Worlds
- Memory Jar
- Static Orb
- Sensei's Divining Top
- Thopter Foundry
- Sword of the Meek

Instants (5):
- Gifts Ungiven
- Tainted Pact
- Fact or Fiction
- Mana Drain
- Thirst for Knowledge

Sorcery (13):
- Armageddon
- Revages of War
- Burning of Xinye
- Inferno
- Wildfire
- Devastation
- Vindicate
- Maelstrom Pulse
- Demonic Tutor
- Bribery
- Timetwister
- Wrath of God
- Damnation

Entchantment (9):
- Nether Void
- Moat
- Collective Restraint
- Awakening Zone
- Rising Waters
- Oblivion Ring
- Bitterblossom
- Oath of Druids
- Faith'S Fetters


Planeswalker (7):
- Ajani Vengeant
- Garruk Wildspeaker
- Karn Liberated
- Elspeth, Knight Errant
- Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
- Elspeth Tirel
- Tezzeret the Seeker
- Jace The Mind Sculptor


Its a Agro-Handle-Stacks-Variant, so its perfect for the Meta at the moment.

Reguards
Jan