This cheaper mana cost allows for interesting decision-making around whether you want to efficiently use your mana at the cost of another card, or be more card advantage conscious by holding up three mana instead
Most of them are artifacts, and thanks to being colorless, any deck can play them
Grindstone costs 1 less mana to play, 1 more to activate, but it has the potential to reactivate itself
If this is your style, stick to your big old-school collections
Stax Derevi, Empyrial Tactician | Illustration by Michael Komarck Commander (1) Creature (19) Avacyn's Pilgrim Birds of Paradise Mother of Runes Noble Hierarch Quirion Ranger Bloom Tender Ethersworn Canonist Grand Abolisher Aven Mindcensor Eldrazi Displacer Hushwing Gryff Kinjalli's Sunwing Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist Recruiter of the Guard Trophy Mage Trygon Predator Hokori, Dust Drinker Stoic Angel Seedborn Muse Instant (8) Enlightened Tutor Path to Exile Swords to Plowshares Cyclonic Rift Dramatic Reversal Eladamri's Call Muddle the Mixture Beast Within Sorcery (4) Green Sun's Zenith Fabricate Supreme Verdict Wrath of God Enchantment (10) Burgeoning Root Maze Rest in Peace Stasis Stony Silence Aura Shards Aura of Silence Ghostly Prison Propaganda Nature's Will Artifact (21) Grafdigger's Cage Mana Vault Meekstone Pithing Needle Sensei's Divining Top Sol Ring Azorius Signet Isochron Scepter Lightning Greaves Selesnya Signet Simic Signet Swiftfoot Booths Torpor Orb Winter Orb Mana Web Scepter of Dominance Static Orb Sword of Feast and Famine Tangle Wire Trinisphere Smokestack Land (36) Adarkar Wastes Ancient Tomb Botanical Sanctum Bountiful Promenade Breeding Pool Brushland City of Brass Command Tower Flooded Strand Forest x4 Glacial Fortress Hallowed Fountain Island x4 Mana Confluence Misty Rainforest Plains x4 Razorverge Thicket Reliquary Tower Sea of Clouds Seachrome Coast Seaside Citadel Strip Mine Sunpetal Grove Temple Garden Wasteland Windswept Heath Yavimaya Coast Stax derives its name from the card Smokestack, which should be an indication of how these decks play out
