Taxes or denies opponents' lands, mana, and actions, locking the game down rather than racing it.
Removal, reanimation, and sacrifice, often paid for in life or cards rather than mana alone. "Reanimator," an EDHREC-tracked deck-building term, is most associated with this color alone.
Mono-Black Stax
29%(35 games, 10 decks)
Cards That Overperform in Stax
Not yet broken out by color identity specifically — these numbers are for Stax across Commander as a whole.