It can be used as a pseudo Revive to fish out that last Deoxys- EX to reach the magic number
Here are some cards that, to me, definitively fall under the Stax banner: Stasis Winter Orb Static Orb Rising Waters Storm Cauldron Smokestack Words of Wind Back to Basics Drannith Magistrate Decree of Silence The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale The cards above are all notorious for stopping a game from happening, either through not allowing lands to untap, making it prohibitive to play creatures (the formats defining way to play), or by stopping you from playing your Commander (which is the point of the format, whether you like it or not)
(The Dark Gyarados showed earlier is a smudged variation on this Team Rocket Smudged Thin stamp
Checking out a Modern Horizons or Masters set can be a great way to augment those more powerful decks
4) Mana first: build a mana plan that matches your deck, not your optimism Most Commander my deck didnt do anything stories are mana stories wearing a trench coat
Player Pivot: High secondary market prices are driving a massive surge in custom, print-on-demand proxy tokens