Hi
Thanks!
So these below are all abilities activated in my unkeep :
Fade Tangle
Tap Tangle
Sac with Stax
Boost Stax

Then i understand i could sacrifice a Tangle with no counters for my smoke right? Id resolve Sac with Stax before Fade Tangle.

Then i understand best thing is to play the complete set of Smokes and Wires (if you are playing them) to maximize sinergies.

Wires are good as well to tap your oponent before you play a real treat.

I am plenty of doubts about maindecking chalice of the void (instead of spheres). From my point of view chalices are better but still most of the decks keep on with spheres. chalice for 0 on the play or for 2 on the draw are pretty good against most of the decks. I minimize the amount of times i play it for 1 (only against goblins) since im plenty of spells cc 1.

The decks i have most problems against are aggro decks like goblin. I maindeck one darkblast, 1 balance, but still is not enough. Is there any strategy to follow against aggro or is all about being lucky?

Any tips about how to mulligan?

Thanks!

DSC vs Titan is not only about weldering it.
Is much better to tinker for DSC with so much artifact hate around. 

Yep, in my last games smokestack has proven every time more not very useful, not even playing it early in the game.
I am not a very experienced player, but still I was expecting it to be stronger.
Currently i am playing BRUbaStax (darkblast&demonic) and the main problem i have is that control players just wait until having tinker + enough mana in hands to play it in the same turn so doesnt really matter if i own the board.

I am planing to move to spheres instead of chalices to avoid this, but chalices are stronger and i dont really like the change.

Jesters Cap in that sense is more useful than smokestack since it has an "instant" effect in the game and there is nothing they can do to fix it.  ???

Just my two cents

Hi,

I have just recentrly started to play 5c Stax. I am not a very experienced player so it is not easy for me to play it properly. I am facing several problems (taking Roland Chang deck as reference) :

a) When to mulligan. What should be the strategy for mulligan with this deck?

b) What is the best way to play Smokestack and Tangle Wire? What is the logic behind these two cards?
I would like to understand better the strategic purpose of these two cards in the deck.

c) Why sundering titan instead of DSC?

d) What do you think about moving from 4 Smokestack to 4 Jesters Cap?

I would appreciate some tips and help to understand this deck!!
Thanks for your help.

Hi,

@Evenpence / Vroman

I have been playing Ubastax regularly during the last weeks and i really love the deck. I have been following closely the discusion in the forum trying to learn as much as possible

Currently im playing :

standard+
4 tangle wire
2 dup
2 shaman
2 nrod
0 sor

sideboard :
2 nord
3 jesters cap
3 fiery temper
2 red elemental blast
2 dup
3 heretic

Please, could you advice how to sideboard (in and out) and some explanation against :
Oath
Control slaver
Stax
Gifts

I have lots of problems when sideboarding since i dont really know what to take out and put in. On top of that it really matters if you are on the play or on the draw.... so its kind of hard to master this side of the game.

I would appreciate your comments.
Thanks!

I forgot this question :

As far as I understand if you have in play

Uba + Bazaar + Words of War

You can deal 6 damage each turn without discarding (if no hand) right??
This puts your opponent on a heavy clock....

Uba + 2 Bazaar + Words of War == 10 damage/turn
Uba + Bazaar + 2 Words of War == 12 damage/turn

...as long as you have the mana (**)

You kill him in 2 turns!!!! and you can start the massacre the same turn you play WOW.

This is good against every single deck jeje

WOW is great to clear out welders from the board and other species.... and has synergies with Tangle Wire and Smokestack and Bazaar and Uba and our thin red mana base

I am not sure if WOW has more synergies with Spheres than Nrod (because of **). Nrod nullifies your artifact mana base. It would be another reason to have 3 SOR MD instead of 3 Nrod, but these are big words jeje On the other hand, SOR could delay your WOW 1 turn... so you never know.

Could it be the right decision to play MD :

UbaWar v1.0

4 crucible/smokestack
3 uba
3 Wire
3 SOR or 3 nrod (most probably 3 nrod)
3 WOW
1 dup
1 trinisphere
0 shaman

3 nrod or 3 SOR in the sideboard.

Another good thing for this build is that Chalice 1 is much better now.

Maybe this MD is absurd but i think definitely it makes sense to have WOW  in the sideboard.

Please correct me if im wrong.

Thanks!!

Hi,

Thanks for the reply!

I will add my 2 cents (im not a very experienced player so maybe it makes not that sense).

I was wondering what do you think about having 4 blood moon on the sideboard.
I think this is actually quite good vs those decks not relying on red (like Oath)
It hurts us (basically you get heavily delayed) but it makes impossible for Oath player to win the game (if you play blood moon at the very beginning). You still can play your game (you lose an average of 2 turns in the worst case).
Blood moon + nrod severely damages mana base of your oponent.
I think it can be pretty good against Oath and maybe Gifts and some random decks.

I think Oath is Ubastax worst match up.

Another question I have is why you have never considered to have Words of war in the sideboard (instead of fiery temper). Its a great source of damage and you can tap it to tangle wire (and sack it to smokestack). The fact is single red helps you to play it early, and having bazaar around helps you to deal huge amounts of damage.

Im planning to have 2-3 in the sideboard. Maybe 1 MD can make sense (replacing 1 shaman).

@ Evenpence
When  sideboarding against Oath, what do you take out to replace for sideboard material?
For example :

Your latest build (3 nrod, 2 shaman, 2 dups)

Sideboard
4 fiery temper
3 jesters cap
3 Pyroblast
3 viashino heretic
2 dup

What do you take out and in? I never know what is the best thing to take out and what is the reasoning behind.
+ 3 JC
+ 2 dup
- 2 shaman
- 3 ???

I think the hardest part of this deck is to sideboard in the right way (with full understanding of what and why you are doing it )
I would appreciate as many comments as possible about the sideboarding strategy, since this is a key issue.

Thanks!!!!

Hi,
Please could you explain a little bit your sideboard options against different decks in the current meta (Oath, Stax, Dragon, Agro, CS....)
Currently i am playing the following ub deck :

Standard plus :
4 smokestack
3 tangle wire
3 uba
3 nrod
2 shaman
2 dup

I just moved from 3 resistors to 3 nrod. I still dont know which one is better since there is so much aggro & random decks in my local tournaments..... ???

Thanks for your feedback!