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>>52736275
>I know some people play Chalice, Suppression Field and Chrome Mox.
Yeah that's the usual stax soldier list played in legacy, it's a solid list, especially with all the recent upgrades. I myself played such a list for a while back around 2014.
I'm assuming you speak about the legacy format, considering geddon and winter orb aren't legal in other competitive formats.
If so, you can't really go around the stax basis of ancient tomb+chrome for a T1 chalice/field if you want to stand a chance. Then usually wastelands + thalia and thalia heretic are enough taxes to keep the opponent from doing what he wants. Geddon/orb/etc.. are considered overkill.
The mana base is pretty much untouchable, with tomb + wasteland + cavern of souls + basic plains. Then you get to enjoy few karakas + the new Eiganjo + castle ardenvale as utility lands.

So what's up to you to decide is the creature base. Personally the mandatory x4 are Thalia V1 + thalia's lieutenant + valiant veteran + preeminent (+ the fatties you wanna cast for free).
I love Myrel as the fatty of choice, because contrary to Captain of the Watch she's easy to hardcast, and is almost as impactful, while allowing shenanigans with karakas; plus she also give a hard time to control decks and prevent all kinds of combats' tricks to happen by denying activated abilities.

Even though you run chalice, i believe Esper Sentinel to be an absolute must (and you can still play him once you have cavern otb), he's extremely impactful for only 1 mana.

In term of novelties i also love Brutal Cathar from Midnight Hunt, which can sometimes generate huge value if it flips a second time. He can eventually replace or go alongside Palace Jailer depending on how creature heavy is your local meta.

If budget is a concern, you can move toward pioneer. Chalice, chrome, tomb, all the stax stuff isn't legal there (only standard editions from RtR onward are legal iirc), but you can build your soldier deck for 150 bux rather than 1500.