Torpor Orb | Illustration by Svetlin Velinov Stax cards impede your opponents development through various means , such as forcing them to sacrifice permanents, taxing them, making cards enter tapped, and simply having the text players/opponents cannot do X. Many players believe the term comes from Smokestack, a key card of the original stax list, and to some extent that's true
So you could make a deck of unlimited Plains and Shararazads, keep starting more and more game-within-games, and eventually win by running your opponent out of cards
The Dalek Emperor The Dalek Emperor is our ultra-specific Rakdos commander for that rare Dalek deck
Voja, Jaws of the Conclave is just an overall powerhouse
Spreading menace counters across subtypes is a pretty mediocre mana investment without a meaningful payoff
Here weve got a sphinx detective for you whos very good at their job