[EDH / Commander] Marisi, Breaker of the Coil Stax

[Trunksshe]

So, I'm currently playing around with a Marisi Prison-style deck, trying to tweak it here and there. I'd normally run it as a Gaddock Teeg Stax deck, but I wanted to try something different with this one; so every card that isn't a land will try to fulfill the requirements of being an... "odd card". Essentially, non-meta cards for the sake of playing with a deck that runs really well using cards that are almost never seen by people/my LGS. However, some are obviously non-negotiable and need to stay in because they're 'that good'.

If it matters, the average power level of my LGS is around 70% cEDH. For example, I have/(had?) a fully powered-up Urza, but I toned it down because I have more fun making an army of unstoppable robots. So, not everything needs to be top of the line, I just want ideas on how to run this a little more streamlined than I currently have it.

If a more "popular" card would fulfil a combo, or a slot more effectively, I'm very interested in that as well; I don't want anyone suggesting things just because it fits the roll of non-meta. Thanks for any comments!


//Commander
Marisi, Breaker of the Coil

//Lands
Ancient Tomb
Arid Mesa
Bloodstained Mire
Canopy Vista
Cinder Glade
Clifftop Retreat
Command Tower
Exotic Orchard
Flood Plain
Flooded Strand
Forbidden Orchard
2 Forest
Grasslands
Jungle Shrine
Misty Rainforest
2 Mountain
Mountain Valley
Path of Ancestry
2 Plains
Reliquary Tower
Rocky Tar Pit
Rootbound Crag
Sacred Foundry
Stomping Ground
Sunpetal Grove
Temple Garden
Temple of the False God
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Windswept Heath
Wooded Foothills

//Ramp
Arcane Signet
Mana Vault
Sol Ring
Trace of Abundance
Farseek
Arbor Elf
Avacyn's Pilgrim
Bloom Tender
Llanowar Elves
Elvish Mystic
Knight of the White Orchid

//Card Advantage
Abundance
Sylvan Library
Faithless Looting
Gamble
Light Up the Stage
Mind's Eye
Alms Collector
Sensei's Divining Top

//Removal
Day of Judgment
Winds of Abandon
Natural Obsolescence
Nature's Claim
Path to Exile
Swords to Plowshares
Manglehorn
Reclamation Sage

//Evasion
Dryad Sophisticate
Gingerbrute
Tin Street Dodger
Assault Suit
Whispersilk Cloak
Bedlam
Iroas, God of Victory
Lightning Greaves

//Stax
Deafening Silence
Root Maze
Rule of Law
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
Thalia, Heretic Cathar
Vryn Wingmare
Kataki, War's Wage
Aven Mindcensor
Baird, Steward of Argive
Collector Ouphe
Containment Priest
Gaddock Teeg
Imposing Sovereign
Treasure Nabber
Spirit of the Labyrnth
Dryad Militant
exiled doomsayer

//Tutors
Eladamri's Call
Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
Recruiter of the Guard

//Misc. Pieces
Kormus Bell
Orim's Chant
Master Warcraft
Natural Affinity
Crusading Knight
Hungry Lynx
Marisi's Twinclaws
Seedtime
Pyroblast
Red Elemental Blast
Concordant Crossroads



//Considerations for the deck
Abbot of Keral Keep
Authority of the Consuls
Blind Obedience
Bonds of Mortality
Karmic Guide
Kismet
Myriad Landscape
Protean Hulk

[Trunksshe]

If it's easier to read, the link is here:
https://deckstats.net/decks/88490/1407677-mirisi-prison

I'm unsure about adding land ramp, since I have mostly dual lands, and only 4 basics. The other thing this is lacking is sizable tutors, and I'm not sure Enlightened Tutor or Worldly Tutor do enough for the deck at the moment to warrant using slots for unless I throw Karmic Guide and Protean Hulk in there.

I'm also not sure on my draw potential. I'd like more, but Harmonize costs 4, and Red and White don't really like drawing too much.

[Judaspriester]

About the manabase, I personally wouldn't run the bad fetches (e.g. Mountain Valley) and Temple of the False God. For the fetches, they tend to slow you down, while you usually want to be fast in order to build up your prison. The temple, well, he's fine in decks that have a good land ramp, but otherwise, he can really hurt you if it shows up early on.
A little more basics would be nice, since cards like Back to Basics or Blood Moon would break your neck at the current state.

Kormus Bell is a meta call right?

What maybe would also fit into the deck is Spirit en-Dal, Soltari Champion and Soltari Visionary. the first one makes one of your creatures basicly unblockable, the other two are somewhat expensive with cmc3 but are unblockable and offer some utility on top.

For card draw, Rogue's Gloves might be an option, since you'll try to be evasive.

Unless you have it already, you could replace Concordant Crossroads with Mass Hysteria. But this is mostly a budget decision.

[robort]

Besides the stax of this deck I am trying to figure out how you plan on winning? You plan on pinging your opponents to death with only creatures with power of 2 all day long?

Exiled Doomsayer is way to situational and just targets if you are lucky one player.

You want to be the stax player but what is the point of this card then? Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth. It gives you absolutely no value what so ever.

I would still use Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger at least.

How about smoke just for the sake of making just one creature untap per player.

Now you want to surprise your meta with a card. This is my favorite surprise card I play in a deck of mine and it usually gets the wtf response and that card is Permeating Mass

[Judaspriester]

Hmm.. what about Smoke + a creature with myriad (e.g. Herald of the Host) or Blade of Selves? this would allow you to goat the whole table while ignoring Smoke yourself.