Legacy
Five-Color Stax
Taxes or denies opponents' lands, mana, and actions, locking the game down rather than racing it.
Five-color — every color's tools available at once, usually built around a payoff that rewards it directly.
Five-Color Stax
58% (177 games, 27 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.
- Tropical Island-17% (n=20)
- Veil of Summer-17% (n=21)
- Prismatic Ending-12% (n=22)
- Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar-12% (n=22)
- Brainstorm-10% (n=99)
- Ponder-9% (n=96)
- Brotherhood's End-9% (n=38)
- Flusterstorm-9% (n=50)
- Show and Tell-8% (n=58)
- Omniscience-8% (n=57)
Most-Played Cards in Stax
- Ancient Tomb80% (n=3887)
- Disruptor Flute60% (n=2934)
- Lotus Petal54% (n=2645)
- City of Traitors51% (n=2471)
- The One Ring43% (n=2105)
- Urza's Saga40% (n=1944)
- Leyline of the Void37% (n=1787)
- Pithing Needle36% (n=1735)
- Simian Spirit Guide34% (n=1672)
- Grafdigger's Cage34% (n=1650)