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Stasis


Stasis, who hasn't heard of the card? Everybody gets in to contact with it at 
least once, and once you played against it you never forget that card ever 
again. And thats not so weird if you see what this card does; Skip your untap
phase. Deck is really tough to play though. You need to know the rules very
well, and need to practice a lot before you can play this right. You have to
know how long you can wait to play the Stasis, so that your opponent won't
kick the crap out of you, since you have such less defence and you have no
life gaining at all. And you dont get an untap phase neither. Since Stasis has 
an upkeep of U, this may need some thinking. And last but not least, without
the Stasis you are screwed. So you need to make sure it wont gets removed
by your opponents.

Statistics (1 is worst - 10 is best)

7 - Affordable
2 - Easy to play
7 - Fun to play (not that fun to play against it though ;-p )
7.5 - strength 
 
Lands
        27 Island

Cards
        4 Counterspell
        4 Force of Will
        2 Thwart
        3 Daze
        3 Propaganda
        4 Impulse
        4 Gush
        3 Boomerang
        2 Morphling
        4 Stasis

Sideboard
SB:  4 Chill
SB:  4 Annul
SB:  4 Back to Basics
SB:  3 Hydroblast

Download this deck in apprentice format here.
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