Taxes or denies opponents' lands, mana, and actions, locking the game down rather than racing it.
Orzhov — draining life and grinding out value from creatures dying, often on both sides of the board, and the home of the community's "Aristocrats" archetype.
Orzhov Stax
61%(126 games, 20 decks)
Cards That Overperform in Stax
Not yet broken out by color identity specifically — these numbers are for Stax across Legacy as a whole.
The Fantasticar+13% (n=28)
Tezzeret, Cruel Captain+11% (n=68)
Warping Wail+11% (n=40)
Mystic Forge+11% (n=77)
Basalt Monolith+11% (n=43)
Ugin, Eye of the Storms+10% (n=58)
Disruptor Flute+10% (n=358)
Voltaic Key+9% (n=75)
Manifold Key+9% (n=98)
Candelabra of Tawnos+9% (n=44)
Cards That Underperform in Stax
Not yet broken out by color identity specifically — these numbers are for Stax across Legacy as a whole.