Stasis, Boomerang, Serra angel and alot of counterspells was one of my favorite decks during Revised era.

I've been trying to make a Stasis deck but was having a hard time learning how to utilize it. Thanks man, love your videos

@MyExcellentOpinion

2 жыл бұрын

…you need howling mines so you draw a lot of land to support the upkeep and a card that eventually lets you shuffle your graveyard into your library. You eventually mill their deck as they’ll run out of cards. Use force of wills and arcane denials as counters is nice too. So it’s primarily a blue deck (using boomerang on your stasis) with artifacts and just like 2 kismet and 2 disenchants and like 0 creatures. Don’t let your opponents know but for them to beat it they need to destroy your howling mines (not your stasis) in the hope for them to eventually untap.

@rsmith524

Ай бұрын

Forsaken City can pay the upkeep cost indefinitely. Chain of Vapor or Rescue can bounce Stasis at the end of your opponent's turn to give you an untap step. Howling Mine makes sure you hit most of your land drops and have plenty of counterspells (Force of Will, Force of Negation, Misdirection, Daze, Thwart) ready to protect Stasis. The symmetrical draw effect also combines with Black Vise to chip away at your opponent's life total. Orb of Dreams gives you a hard lock so your opponent can't "save up" their untapped lands to play around Stasis. Pithing Needle protects Forsaken City from Wastelands. Urza's Saga can grab Black Vise or Pithing Needle.

Going further, Stasis decks now have access to Forsaken City, which is a land that doesn't untap on your untap phase, but you can exile a card from your hand at the beginning of your upkeep to untap it, and it taps for any color. So, you untap Forsaken City by pitching a card, and then you pay for Stasis, so you will be able to keep Stasis around for as long as you have cards in hand. Another card for modern Stasis decks is Eon Hub, which makes everyone skip his or her upkeep. So, now no one has an untap step, and you don't have an upkeep, so you never actually have to pay for Stasis. It is still very interesting to get insight into how these cards were played back before we had all the cards we have today. Thanks for adding this as a segment for your channel!

@openboosters

9 жыл бұрын

TheWhiteWolf1337 WOW! Eon Hub is Fantastic, That's why I like making these vids I learn so much!!! Forsaken City is really cool too. Thanks for sharing!

@Brawler_1337

9 жыл бұрын

openboosters No problem! It's great seeing how the game has evolved from its roots.

I actually really like this video. I didn't really start playing until Onslaught, but i like the history lesson, what decks were and how they were played back in the day. I would definitely tune in for more retrospectives on oldschool decks.

love your combo videos!!!!

great video, i cant point out what would make people dislike this video.. great job as always! love it!

@openboosters

9 жыл бұрын

navye48 Thanks, I appreciate that! I don't know either. Always welcome suggestions to make the vids better.

I enjoy videos like this. I am a beginner to Magic and really only started getting into it since watching your videos. Explanatory videos are awesome. Thanks man.

@openboosters

9 жыл бұрын

R Brocolli No problem, Really enjoy making them

My buddy ran the stasis deck. Ugh! I hated it with a passion. I still have one that I bring out on occasion. These newbies have no idea about that deck... thanks for a trip down memory lane!

I got this card and I’m adding nature’s will can that combo work

is there a another combo that doesn't cost green mana, that are like birds paradise and install energy

fantastic! lol. Oh wow I would hate to have that played against me. Love these combo vids!

@openboosters

9 жыл бұрын

Raaanch Thanks Raaanch !!

Do one on Necropotence decks!! Ahh the good ole days..

It looks cool to me i have only been playing for 3 months and i have m15 and Khans cards so those cards i guess will be either expensive or hard to find to do that "combo" of a sorts

Time Elemental was the absolute best way to lock them down. I can't believe that creature was not mentioned in this video at all. Play Stasis + Kismet and bounce the stasis back at the end of their turn. 2B+2 Colorless was semi expensive, but it was damn sure better than this 3 color abomination you're showing. Blue/White is Stasis....I'd challenge any other iteration of the Stasis deck with my old one. Of course, I'm sure some of the cards I used in that build are banned or restricted now.....Force of Will, Mana Leak, Land Tax, Zuran Orb, Ivory Tower.....deck was nasty.

Nice vid. You can't discuss old school Stasis decks without mentioning Time Elemental! Howling mine versions were lame.

@openboosters

9 жыл бұрын

glacialedge AGGHHH I knew I was going to forget something :< LOL

Interesting. I played 4th edition with my brother and he would tap Stasis with Icy Manipulator at the end of my turn, then get his untap phase.

Deck List ?

So many cards you're showing were never used in any competitive Stasis deck.

I absolutely despised people who played Stasis decks back during my Type 1 days. I had some decks that drove people insane like my mono-black control deck (before Hymn To Tourach was restricted) but I would never make my opponents suffer against a Stasis deck.

@ToddReynolds420

8 жыл бұрын

+HBSanta That mono-black Necropotence deck was the very reason I started paying Blue/White Stasis. If you can manage to counter that turn 1 Hippie or Hymn, you're golden. If you let them start taking cards, you're dead.....

Then once visions came out, we were given Chronatog!!! lol

Chronotog is very good with stasis

@openboosters

9 жыл бұрын

Javaris Jamar Javarison-Lamar Yup that's awesome Lock down and let them draw to death. Thanks

Yeah these were the combos my brother played against my fast red deck.. one time in ten I managed to beat and burn him before he locked me.. :P

I think he just wanted to show off his cards 😑

My buddy plays an epic mono blue stasis combo deck that functions much better than this, although this is a good concept, but all you need to do is return stasis to hand end of opponents turn, and drop in the enchantment that makes all lands opponent plays come into play tapped, and then they are locked out

In other words he wants to show off his cards..... such value.....

FIRST, BRASIL

Rescue is better than boomerang 😂

Your understanding of a stasis "combo" (it's a prison deck) is about 280 years old

@cnjgp7

9 жыл бұрын

True, but a lot of people weren't playing back at the start of Magic. It's fun to see (or in my case reminisce) of how things "used to be done" way back at the beginning of it all. Keep up the videos, openboosters!

@hellasforever6242

9 жыл бұрын

the point of the video was not to show off the "combo" but rather to show off his graded cards lmao wanker

@hellasforever6242

9 жыл бұрын

this was stasis in 1993 lmao. i played turbo stasis with yotian soldier and howling mine and lim duls vault blah blah blah

@intuit13

9 жыл бұрын

***** Well said. I also quit during Ice Age (although I'm just starting to get back into it now). These "combo" videos are a cool way to show newer players how magic used to be played. You have to admit, though, that the combos that openboosters presents in his videos ARE outdated. Same category as Channel+Fireball, heh.

@intuit13

9 жыл бұрын

***** Magic is FAR more complex today than it was back in 1994, though. I can understand why newer players would see these combo videos and not be very impressed (to say the least). I like the videos, though, because they remind me of the good ol days of Mtg.

Stasis is one of the most annoying games in EDH.

Stasis has to be the weirdest art work in Alpha. That card is just the worst to play against.