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[34 LANDS]

Hey everyone. I have gotten fairly tired with my ww deck and have decided to work on a prison deck. I have looked at various prison/stax/orb lists and this is what I have come up with. Any suggestions are quite welcome.

34 LANDS

2 island
tabernacle at pendrell vale
bazaar of baghdad
mishra's workshop
library of alexandria
wasteland
seat of the synod
tree of tales
vault of whispers
ancient den
tropical island
tundra
underground sea
savannah
scrubland
windswept heath
flooded strand
polluted delta
bloodstained mire
wooded foothills
mishra's factory
ancient tomb
city of traitors
crystal vein
flagstones of trokair
glimmervoid
darksteel citadel
tolaria west
breeding pool
watery grave
hallowed fountain
rishadan port
great furnace

29 ARTIFACTS

chrome mox
mox diamond
sensei's top
voltaic key
grim monolith
scroll rack
mind stone
talisman of dominance
talisman of progress
talisman of unity
winter orb
fellwar stone
sky diamond
worn powerstone
darksteel ignot
crucible of worlds
coalition relic
eye of ramos
spectral searchlight
staff of domination
metalworker
tangle wire
solemn simulacrum
thran dynamo
guilded lotus
minds eye
crumbling sanctuary
karn silver golem
memnarch

22 BLUE

gifts ungiven
deep analysis
fact or fiction
time warp
thoughtcast
time spiral
upheaval
land equilibrium
tezzeret the seeker
impulse
transmute artifact
braingeyser
intuition
propaganda
frantic search
mana drain
recall
fabricate
thirst for knowledge
mana drain
stroke of genius
argivian restoration


4 GREEN

crop rotation
life from the loam
regrowth
sylvan scrying

3 BLACK

demonic tutor
tainted pact
mind twist

5 WHITE

ravages of war
armageddon
moat
magus of the tabernacle
ghostly prison

GOLD

vindicate

I would really like to build a stax deck for highlander, but I have no idea where to start. If anyone could post some recent decklists to draw upon that would be great.

[Round 1 vs Ben playing UBW control]

I played in last nights event too. I ran my white weenie deck to a 3-1 record. Overall, I would say it was a fun tournament, but I really think it should be best of three instead of just 1 game. Here is a quick report.

Round 1 vs Ben playing UBW control- I forget that I had just sorted my deck and did not shuffle it nearly enough. This means I don't hit any lands in my first 13 cards and mulligan to 6. My 6 card hand is also quite unimpressive consisting of plains, mutavault, honor the pure, spectral procession, parralax wave, and a random 2 drop. Neither of us does much in the first turns with him dropping lands, lotus bloom, and lotus vale and me just dropping a guy and honor the pure while not hitting a third plains and drawing blanks like seal of cleansing. He proceeds to drop scepter and imprint mana drain. At this point I'm getting really frustrated and the memnoch he plays next turn doesn't help my situation. I decide to see if he will counter everything or just major threats by attempting a random guy and he gets countered. So now my plan is to hit another land, play a spell to bait the drain and then drop seal of cleansing. Luckily I don't have to worry about that as he taps out to steal my aven mindcensor and then bribery me taking exalted. All of a sudden I'm back in the game since I drop seal next turn and kill the scepter. Now all I need is that damned 4th land I can't seem to draw. Sure enough I draw it two turns later and play parallax wave targeting his team (most of which I own) so when wave dies I am left with a huge army and win in short order.
1-0

Round 2 vs James playing Red Aggro- I am unable to find a good mix of lands again and keep an opener with plains, dust bowl, icatian javeleneers, grafted wargear, flickerwisp, silver knight and defiant falcon. I drop javeleneer and he plays aether vial. I then drop the falcon and sit around while all he has is rakdos guildmage and zozu. I finally hit a plains and drop flickerwisp to reset the vial. He bolts it and follows up with a blood knight. I drop silver knight. He drops sulfuric vortex and the race is on. It looks very good for me since I have grafted wargear, but he has one of his own. In the end, I get him down to 3, so vortex puts him to 1, but it's not enough.
1-1

Round 3 vs David playing xxxxx- I'm not even sure what he was playing. The game was just very quick. He had a slow start and I had a 2/2 for two followed up by wilt leaf cavaliers while he just played some tapped lands. Turn 4 dust bowl went active and I just blew up a land each turn until he was dead.
2-1

Round 4 vs Lou playing Elves- He got a fairly slow start while I dropped defiant falcon, honor the pure, and something else. He had a wolfskullshaman which was starting to help him play catchup and a reach/deathtouch elf. He blocked the falcon with the elf and harms way did some redirecting to kill the shaman. Next turn I grafted wargeared the falcon and he couldn't find an answer to the flier in time.
3-1

Flickerwisp is awesome. I just completely forgot about it. It also works with mangara, which has been great for me in testing. Also weathered wayfarer gets dust bowl now and that can just win games so I like it a lot.

So now all I have to do is figure out what I'm doing with 1 drops. Should I run burrenton forge tender and akrasan squire or replace them with evasion guys like soltari foot guard and lantern kami?

Also I probably will add either lightning greaves or mask of memory. Which is better and what should I cut? I'm thinking cutting auriok champion since I don't run pariah.

Looks solid
Maybe a few changes:

- Goldmeadow stalwart (You definetly have too less kithkin for him)
- White knight  (Black is not the color with the most played creatures in highlander)
- Cataclysm (You already have Armageddon,Ravages of war, Winter Orb and Tangle Wire so you don`t need this)

+ Mistral Charger ( you need a few more flyers to keep the pressure on)
+ Stormfront Pegasus ( you need a few more flyers to keep the pressure on)
+ Lantern Kami ( you need a few more flyers to keep the pressure on)

Stalwart is actually harrier. Other than that I'm not such a huge fan of pegasus and am not sure where I would fit the kami. I do think that cataclysm is fairly weak in my deck though.

Also for whatever reason I feel like smokestack and uba mask might fit the deck quite well. If I added smokestack some more token generators would seem appropriate, but uba mask just seems awesome since almost all the decks in my meta are more controllish.

Lightning greaves also seems like a solid card to add.

[34 lands]

I recently revisited my WW deck and would like to get some thoughts on some of the choices.

34 lands
24 plains
1 eiganjo casle
1 karakas
1 flagstones of trokair
1 dust bowl
1 horizon canopy
1 mutuavault
1 mishra’s factory
1 wasteland
1 tectonic edge
1 rishadan port *(this is usually pretty weak as my mana is usually tied up, but I haven't found anything I would like to replace it with as of yet)



19 1cc

13 guys (I believe it is essential to play at least 13 aggressive 1 drops. I would prefer to run even more, but white doesn't provide much else besides these 12 guys and aether vial. Things like wayfarer are there because an unanswered wayfarer against control will usually win the game.

Aether vial
Figure of destiny
Icatian javelineers
Weathered wayfarer
Elite vanguard
Lantern kami
Mother of runes
Akrasan squire
Goldmeadow harrier
Soltari foot soldier
Isamaru, hound of konda
Savannah lions
Ramosian sergeant

Land tax
Cursed scroll
Bonesplitter
Harm's way
Swords to plowshares
Path to exile

20 2cc
Honor the pure
Winter orb

Hand of Honor
8.5 tails
Kami of ancient law
Ronom unicorn
Whipcorder
Serra avenger
Soltari priest
Soltari monk
Silver knight
Sigiled paladin
Knight of the white orchid
Leonine skyhunter
White knight
Knight of the meadow grain
Amrou scout
Knight of the holy nimbus
Azorious guildmage
Stoneforge mystic
Kor aeronaut

17 3cc
Glorious anthem
Sword of fire and ice
Sword of light and shadow
Oblivion ring
Grafted wargear
Tangle wire
Griffin Guide
Spectral Procession

Mangara of corondor
Aven Mindscensor
Paladin en vec
Stillmoon cavalier
Kitchen finks
Mirror entity
Wilt-leaf cavaliers
Flickerwisp
Kor sanctifiers

8 4cc
Armageddon
Ajani goldmane
Elspeth
Ranger of eos
Parallax wave
Hokori, Dust drinker
Wilt leaf liege
Ravages of war

1 6cc
Exalted angel

Some thoughts:
Rishadan port is just screaming to be replaced as it is usually bad. I have tested a bunch of lands in this slot, but nothing really impressed me.

Brave the Elements-Has anyone tested this? I haven't had a chance to, but it seems like it could be amazing.

Basilisk Collar- Its not bad, but in my testing its equip cost of 2 is just too much for a marginal effect. You would much rather have one of your other equips.

Lightning Greaves- Just like basilisk collar it is decent, but I always seem to cut it in favor of more threats.

Kor Hookmaster- Seems pretty solid. Not as versatile as flickerwisp, but can be used defensively as well. Flickerwisp also is one of the better 3 drops so this could easily replace something like stillmoon or mangara.

Wilt-leaf cavaliers- No evasion and his mana can be tricky at times, but when comes down he is great. He is very efficient and is amazing against other aggressive decks.

Hokori Not all that great compared to the other 4 drops, but definitely more game-impacting than other options that are available. He still randomly wins games.