Stasis
Enchantment
Players skip their untap steps.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay 
.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Summer Magic / Edgar
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #7663
Stasis locks every opponent out of their untap step for as long as you can keep paying its upkeep — and that upkeep cost is the entire design: one Blue per turn to maintain a global freeze. Pair it with Smothering Tithe to fund itself or Jorn, God of Winter to untap lands through combat, and the freeze becomes effectively permanent.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jorn, God of Winter
Jorn, God of Winter untaps all snow permanents whenever he attacks, which means Stasis's upkeep pays for itself out of lands that were supposed to be locked — you attack through a frozen board and reset your mana in the same step.
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV taxes every spell your opponents cast while Stasis taxes every land — the two effects stack into a near-total economic shutdown where opponents can neither play spells nor use their resources to remove the lock.
Zur the Enchanter
Zur the Enchanter tutors Stasis directly onto the battlefield from combat damage triggers, compressing a two-card lock setup into a single attack step and skipping the vulnerability window of casting the enchantment from hand.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Stasis is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — the older the format, the more tools exist to exploit it. In Commander it functions as a prison piece rather than a standalone win condition, requiring untap effects or upkeep engines to sustain; the multiplayer table means you need to lock three opponents simultaneously, which raises the support threshold. In Legacy and Vintage it sees fringe play in dedicated lock shells where fast mana and free interaction make the upkeep payment trivial, though it rarely defines those formats the way it once defined early tournament Magic. Oathbreaker gives it a narrower window — 20 life means games end faster, so the freeze needs to close quickly or it just delays the loss.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Jorn, God of Winter // Kaldring, the RimestaffStasis
Players skip their untap steps; Untap all snow permanents you control during each of your turns; Lock
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Zur the EnchanterStasisTel-Jilad Stylus
Opponents skip their untap steps; Lock
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data isn't currently available for Stasis, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live market rate before buying. It's an old enchantment with a narrow but dedicated audience, and prices tend to spike when lock-based commanders gain popularity, so verify before you pay.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.