5 Color Shrine Pillow Fort

Commander / EDH Enchantment Pillow Fort

Nagoragama

Land (39)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascading Cataracts
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 5x Forest
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 2x Island
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 3x Plains
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Tutor (2)

• 1x Captain Sisay
• 1x Enlightened Tutor

Ramp (17)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Dawn's Reflection
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Overgrowth
• 1x Sanctum Weaver
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Wild Growth

Draw (9)

• 1x Argothian Enchantress
• 1x Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1x Enchantress's Presence
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Satyr Enchanter
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Setessan Champion
• 1x Sythis, Harvest's Hand
• 1x Verduran Enchantress

PillowFort (9)

• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Weaver of Harmony

Commander (1)

Shrines (15)

• 1x Go-Shintai of Ancient Wars
• 1x Go-Shintai of Boundless Vigor
• 1x Go-Shintai of Hidden Cruelty
• 1x Go-Shintai of Shared Purpose
• 1x Honden of Cleansing Fire
• 1x Honden of Infinite Rage
• 1x Honden of Life's Web
• 1x Honden of Night's Reach
• 1x Honden of Seeing Winds
• 1x Sanctum of All
• 1x Sanctum of Calm Waters
• 1x Sanctum of Fruitful Harvest
• 1x Sanctum of Shattered Heights
• 1x Sanctum of Stone Fangs
• 1x Sanctum of Tranquil Light

Removal (8)

• 1x Act of Authority
• 1x Banishing Light
• 1x Calix, Destiny's Hand
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Soul Snare

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Other (11)

• 1x Dance of the Manse
• 1x Femeref Enchantress
• 1x Gossamer Chains
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Reki, the History of Kamigawa
• 1x Sigil of the Empty Throne
• 1x Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
• 1x Tatsunari, Toad Rider
• 1x Weaver of Harmony
• 1x Worship

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I was a big fan of the Honden cycle from back in Kamigawa, so when I learned they were printing a new cycle of Shrines and a "Shrine Lord" in the form of Sanctum of All I knew I had to build a deck around them.

I figure since they're enchantments, I would build a kind of Pillow Fort deck based around them. The Core:

Obviously the core of the deck are the shrines, the 5 Hondens and 5 Sanctums, with the "Shrine Lord" Sanctum of All as the main tutor and cornerstone of the deck.

Honden of Cleansing Fire - Not one of the more powerful shrines, but with multiple shrines out the life gain starts getting quite high and acts as a buffer if you're finding yourself under attack frequently.

Honden of Infinite Rage - One of the two main ways the deck kills players. Can also double as removal in a pinch.

Honden of Life's Web - Creates creatures, mainly act as blockers or attackers if absolutely necessary.

Honden of Night's Reach - Repeatable targeted discard, once multiple shrines are out, you're basically going to be forcing them to discard their whole hand every turn.

Honden of Seeing Winds - Expensive to get out, but you're going to be drawing a lot of cards. Be careful though, because that's not a "may" draw.

Sanctum of Calm Waters - Cheaper to get out than Seeing Winds, and that is a "may", so you won't be forced to deck yourself.

Sanctum of Fruitful Harvest - Ramp, ramp, ramp.

Sanctum of Shattered Heights - Targeted removal. One of the two shrines that isn't a "triggered" ability though, its an activated ability, so not helped by Sanctum of All.

Sanctum of Stone Fangs - One of two ways the deck kills players. The life gain keeps you out of range of death as well.

Sanctum of Tranquil Light - Weakest shrine by far. One of the two shrines that isn't a "triggered" ability. It only costs one mana to get out though, and it has some uses.

The Pillow Fort:

Besides the Shrines, many of which have pillow fort type effects, there are a number of enchantments which discourage attacking or in some way keep other players at arm's length

Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, Sphere of Safety, Collective Restraint - Impose a tax on every attacking creature, prevents mass attacks and infinite combo attacks.

Luminarch Ascension - Counters stack up as long you can avoid taking damage. Eventually you can churn out a swarm of angels and end things quickly.

Rhystic Study - Imposes a tax on all spells, or draw many cards.

The Removal:

I've stuck to enchantment based removal to trigger all my enchantress effects as much as possible, such as:

Banishing Light, Oblivion Ring, Prison Realm, and Calix, Destiny's Hand (who creates mini-Banishing Lights out of any of your enchantments) - All these exile any problem permanent and trigger everything in the deck that has to do with enchantments.

Soul Snare - Enchantment-based rattlesnake effect.

Song of the Dryads and Imprisoned in the Moon which lock down a permanent under an enchantment in a slightly different way than Oblivion Ring type effects.

The Rest:

Most of the rest of the cards are self-explanatory, like the numerous enchantress effects (Eidolon of Blossoms, Enchantress's Presence) and ramp spells necessary for a 5-color deck to function.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.82
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Shrine, Spirit 1/1 C