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Your enablers need to be cheaper than Smokestack and Braids, in my experience, to be reliably useable. You want to get your stax pieces online as early as possible, and if you have to wait for your six drop to be able to grind out your opponent, you're already too late. A card I really liked as...

You mean in stax? Ulvenwald Mysteries looks like an awesome combo with Smokestack or Braids, Cabal Minion (though {b/g} isn't a color pair in my cube), I have to admit. One nontoken creature will last you three sacrifice triggers!

Man, Teysa, Orzhov Scion looks awesome in the stax archetype!

Fooled me until I went looking for sources!

Thank goodness for that!

What a horrible, horrible design! :( Providing players with a way to trigger all life gain triggers an arbitrarily large amount of times just for the sake of it. Just what we needed! cliffhaven vampire Whoo! A six mana two card otk combo! In Modern! Need a second piece to go with...

I'ld say Crow Storm is decent with storm count 1 (i.e. one other spell played). Two 1/2 flyers for {2}{u} is okay. At storm count 2 you get a better deal for your mana than Spectral Procession, even if you probably can't cast it on turn two (though Gitaxian Probe and Frantic Search... :) )...

Forever? Does that mean you can keep the City's Blessing between games? ;)

Sentinel is surprisingly solid, and locks up many a game if not dealt with!

Some tappers that've been good in my cube: ojutai Exemplars Sentinel of the eternal watch Niblis of frost Narcolepsy Ral zarek Tangle wire

Yeah, I think you're underestimating Clear Shot. One colorless is a small price to pay for making Epic Confrontation instant speed and one-sided! If you really want a two mana option, I would go with one of these two. epic confrontation Lignify But Clear Shot is better than both in my experience.

myth realized Rise from the tides Demonic pact Pyromancer's goggles Sandwurm Convergence Cruel ultimatum

Clear Shot is worth the mana extra, because instant speed is so important. It also turns the card into a combat trick. Having cubed both, Clear Shot is, without a shadow of a doubt, the better card by a pretty wide margin.

Faith's Fetters This one's a classic kick in aggro's nuts. It looks like a flexible removal spell, but every time this lands on your 3- or 4-drop, you're crying inside, because that's 7 to 10 extra damage you have to push through with your other cards.

This mirrors my experience.

Aw yeah, Demonic Pact! It's great, love it, and it does fit BW :)

For the lifegain payoffs, there's also (varying power levels): Lone Rider Vizkopa Guildmage Crested Sunmare Defiant Bloodlord Angelic Accord Cradle of Vitality Sanguine Bond Like I said though, the payoff cards are pretty parasitic.

For example, for Warriors, I think all of the following cards are good in a dedicated warrior deck: Mardu Woe-Reaper Arashin Foremost Rush of Battle Blood-Chin Rager Blood-Chin Fanatic Raider's Spoils Chief of the Edge Chief of the Scale There's a bunch of playable (depending on your format)...

There's a lifegain matters theme there, but the power level is all over the place and it's very parasitic. Humans, warriors and zombies all have good support in both colors nowadays, thanks in no small part to Amonkhet block, so tribal is definitely an option.

A second Cloudfin Raptor, at least that's what I'm doing :) Delver of Secrets is a trap I feel, as it's hard to flip but kinda gross when it does on your second turn. Maybe Phantasmal Bear is an option. Truth is, there aren't that many interesting aggressive options for blue. On purpose. The...