Reanichantress

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Enchantment Multiplayer Reanimator Theme/Gimmick

Monti_Jones

Creature (33)

• 1x Aegis of the Gods
• 1x Agent of Erebos
• 1x Argothian Enchantress
• 1x Athreos, God of Passage
• 1x Auramancer
• 1x Auratog
• 1x Boonweaver Giant
• 1x Daxos the Returned
• 1x Doomwake Giant
• 1x Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Faith Healer
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Femeref Enchantress
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Grim Guardian
• 1x Heliod, God of the Sun
• 1x Heliod's Pilgrim
• 1x Herald of the Pantheon
• 1x Karametra, God of Harvests *f-etch*
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Monk Idealist
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Nyx Weaver
• 1x Pharika, God of Affliction
• 1x Restoration Specialist
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Thoughtrender Lamia
• 1x Verduran Enchantress

Instant (1)

• 1x Crop Rotation

Land (38)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 5x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x High Market
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 5x Plains
• 1x Riftstone Portal
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Windswept Heath

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Extinguish All Hope
• 1x Kruphix's Insight
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Artifact (1)

• 1x Altar of Dementia

Commander (1)

Enchantment (22)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Fallen Ideal
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Flickering Ward
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Infernal Tribute
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Khalni Heart Expedition
• 1x Martyr's Cause
• 1x Mind Slash
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Perilous Forays
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

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My most beloved card type are Enchantments. Worst thing about them: once destroyed, it is quite hard to get them back. So how to get around that deficit? Karador, Ghost Chieftain is here to rescue us! Not only can he recur useful enchantment creatures but also get back the whole support cast of non-enchantment creatures.

How the deck started out: Show

I started playing Magic right before the Theros block. I immediately fell in love with all the cool enchantment mechanics, especially the gods. On my hunt for the most suitable commander for an enchantress deck I found different W/G strategies and some 5c goodstuff but non of them where playing any Constellation or Bestow. It became clear to me the deck had to be Abzan to fit the best combination of Gods, Constellation and Bestow and I thought about using Anafenza, the Foremost just for the colours. A Ghave, Guru of Spores enchantress deck brought me to consider a sac-for-profit strategy but only after I learned Karador also allows you to cast via alternative casting costs (namely Bestow) I found the perfect fit for the deck. As things turned out the Bestow mechanic is overpriced for its effect but everything else worked out even better than expected. It took me about half a year and a lot of playtesting to get a playable and somewhat competitive list, but I am quite proud of it now.

How the Deck is built: Show

Using Enchantresses to gain card advantage is the core strategy of the deck. As a result a healthy enchantment count is needed. To reach that count an enchantment stands in where another card type would normally be used. The best example for that is the ramp package. It feels a bit sluggish at first but as soon as you drop the first enchantress you know it was worth it. At the same time you need enough creatures to take advantage of Karador's mechanics. Keeping a balance between the two card types is crucial to ensure the deck runs smoothly. Enchantment creatures are key to that. Unfortunately there aren't that many great enchantment creatures and their mana costs are generally too high for what they offer. Sure, you can play Nyx-Fleece Ram or Boon Satyr but they most likely won't win you a multiplayer EDH game. I tested about every enchantment creature worth playing and gods as well as Constellation have proven to be working best. Maximising enchantment creatures while having enough creatures to benefit from Karador and fitting in all the big splashy enchantments was the hardest part in building the deck.

What the deck is trying to do: Show

We try to play a standard abzan value grind game. Different enchantments and enchantment based mechanics help us to slowly but surely take the win from our opponents. With a plethora of synergies and a robust reanimation strategy this deck is a late game monster!

How the deck plays out: Show

This deck is very mana hungry so the first path to victory must be ramping up the land count. The two best options for that are Karametra, God of Harvests and Perilous Forays which can get almost all lands out of the deck in a few turns. Mid game we try to hamper our opponents strategies with various lock and grind pieces like Agent of Erebos, Eidolon of Rhetoric or Mind Slash while we try to build up our resources with enchantresses and gods. Late game is where this deck is in full force. Completely lock out opponents with multiple sources of Constellation, one-shot someone with Auratog, voltron up Karador with different auras, swarm them with gods and Daxos the Returned tokens, combo them with Altar of Dementia. Over and over again, thanks to Karador, until nothing and noone is left.

How the deck wins: Show

While grinding out opponents is what the deck does best, there are some notable combos that will close out a game with ease.

• The Atog: (Auratog + Rancor ) Feed the Auratog the same Rancor over and over until you run out of mana. Leave it enchanted at the end to trample over anything willing to block him.

• Constellation lock: (Agent of Erebos + Daxos the Returned + Thoughtrender Lamia ) Rip appart their hand forever at instant speed for per card. You can stack the triggers to have the Agent exile everything last for a nice cleanup. Works also with Heliod, God of the Sun as well as with any enchantment at sorcery speed. Clear all the creatures too with Doomwake Giant.

• Voltron Karador: (Fallen Ideal + Karador, Ghost Chieftain + Nighthowler ) Bestow him (works directly from the graveyard too!), sac your board to make him bigger, fly in for easy 21 commander damage. Other auras can help too.

• One ring to heal you up: (Faith Healer + Oblivion Ring + Sun Titan ) Exile your own Sun Titan with O-Ring, sac the O-Ring to Faith Healer, Sun Titan comes back and brings the O-Ring with him. Repeat for infinite life. This can trigger Constellation as many times as you want, feed the Auratog too or even draw your deck with Femeref Enchantress!

• Ring of exiles: (Fiend Hunter + Leonin Relic-Warder + Oblivion Ring ) O-Ring exiles Hunter, Warder exiles O-Ring, Hunter exiles Warder, repeat. Replacing the Hunter with Reveillark plus sac outlet works too. Use the infinite Constellation triggers to do all kinds of things or just win with Grim Guardian.

• Schrödinger's cat: (Animate Dead + Leonin Relic-Warder ) Reanimate the Warder, have the Warder exile the aura, he dies because Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, Animate Dead returns, repeat. You can feed the Warder in between triggers to a sac outlet for more value. Creates infinite Constellation triggers as well as death triggers.

• Altar to the gods: (Altar of Dementia + Fiend Hunter + Sun Titan ) The classic infinite "mill you out" loop. "Hide" the Sun Titan with Fiend Hunter, sac the Fiend Hunter to return Sun Titan, Sun Titan can return Fiend Hunter, repeat. This works in multiple setups with 2 creatures returning each other and a sac outlet (preferably one without mana cost). We can extend this combo with Animate Dead to also have Constellation triggers.

How the Deck loses: Show

Being a recursion based deck our biggest enemy is graveyard hate. Couldn't care less about a board wipe or a Bane of Progress. Even Merciless Eviction is ok as you can dodge it with sac outlets. But Rest in Peace is a real problem. Aegis of the Gods can protect against one off effects but static ones are a pain. Fast combo decks are also a problem. While Eidolon of Rhetoric and some removal help slowing down the game, we need about 15 mana to pull off all the shenanigans this deck wants to play out. On top of that each win condition is spread across multiple permanents and may take a while to fully assemble. In a hyper competitive meta, this deck falls short by a few turns.

What the deck doesn't need: Show

I try to keep each card below the 10$ mark. I know Serra's Sanctum would be great in the deck, but also way past my budget. I dont play mass recursion for enchantments. The available options are just not mana efficient enough, with Replenish being the exception but again out of my budget. Also I want to leave the complete Boonweaver Giant,Karmic Guide,Reveillark chain out. This is not a Hulk/Weaver deck, this is an enchantment deck!

Individual card discussion

• Abzan Charm: Versatile card. Both the card draw and the removal are great.

• Aegis of the Gods: Protects us. Manly against player targeted graveyard hate.

• Agent of Erebos: Nice utility. Wins the recursion mirror match ups.

• Ajani's Chosen: Really nice if you need chump blockers or creatures to sac.

• Altar of Dementia: The best sac outlet in every recursion based deck.

• Animate Dead: Easy and cheap recursion.

• Argothian Enchantress: Cheapest Enchantress.

• Athreos, God of Passage: Just here for the value. The return clause is mandatory. He can stop some combos so sac him before going off.

• Auramancer: Enchantment recursion.

• Auratog: Sac outlet for Enchantments. Can hit heavily with Rancor.

• Bear Umbra: Plays like a 4 mana ritual. Can protect a creature too.

• Bojuka Bog: The deck is B. Gotta play it.

• Boonweaver Giant: Mostly goes for Pattern of Rebirth. Can fetch other needed auras too.

• Burgeoning: Helps dumping the lands if you overdraw with enchantresses.

• Carpet of Flowers: Sol Ring replacement. Cast pre-combat main phase to get mana post-combat.

• Crop Rotation: Can save early game via Krosan Verge. Finds a sac outlet in a pinch. Wrecks graveyards with a well timed Bojuka Bog. Sac Riftstone Portal for maximum profit.

• Daxos the Returned: Spawns enchantments at instant speed. Wins games with enough experience.

• Dictate of Erebos: Grave Pact with flash. Keeps the board clear like nothing else.

• Doomwake Giant: Repeatable one sided board wipe. Dispatches token decks consistently.

• Eidolon of Blossoms: Best enchantress. Mandatory ETB trigger can kill you while comboing, so sac beforehand.

• Eidolon of Rhetoric: Slows down early game. Stops pesky spellslinger decks. Sac during own turn and reanimate before you pass for huge tempo swings.

• Erebos, God of the Dead: Best draw engine after the enchantresses. No life gain is a nice bonus.

• Evolutionary Leap: Churns through the deck quickly. Budget replacement for Survival of the Fittest.

• Extinguish All Hope: One sided board wipe.

• Faith Healer: Sac outlet for enchantments. The life gain is great vs aggro decks.

• Fallen Ideal: Sac outlet that protects itself. Enchant the commander for an easy voltron win.

• Fate Unraveler: Hurts draw-go decks a lot. Tried Spirit of the Labyrinth before, but he stops enchantresses and sac/recur was too much of a hassle.

• Femeref Enchantress: Reverse enchantress. Even triggers off opponents enchantments.

• Fertile Ground: Signet replacement. Heliod's Pilgrim can get this early.

• Fiend Hunter: Exiles forever with a sac outlet. Can flicker creatures for repeated ETBs. Used for combo wins.

• Grasp of Fate: A nice 3 for 1.

• Grim Guardian: Blood Artist replacement. Wins with enough Constellation triggers.

• Heliod's Pilgrim: Can get ramp, recursion, sac outlet, creature tutor.

• Heliod, God of the Sun: Instant speed chomp block enchantments. Vigilance as a bonus.

• Herald of the Pantheon: Helps casting multiple enchantments per turn. Life gain is bonus.

• Infernal Tribute: Sac anything for a card. is not a problem.

• Karametra, God of Harvests: Just awsome ramp. Can find up to 15 lands.

• Khalni Heart Expedition: Cheap ramp enchantment.

• Kruphix's Insight: 3 mana draw 3 most of the time. Fills up the graveyard in any case. Pure value.

• Leonin Relic-Warder: Exiles forever with a sac outlet. Can flicker enchantments for repeated Constellation. Used for combo wins.

• Martyr's Cause: Sac outlet on an enchantment. Stops voltron decks.

• Mesa Enchantress: Mono- Enchantress. I want Karador to bring back all enchantresses, so no Enchantress's Presence

• Mind Slash: Utility sac outlet. Very strong vs combo and control decks.

• Mirari's Wake: The deck starts to work at 6 mana, goes smoothly at 15, but can never have enough. This helps a lot.

• Monk Idealist: Enchantment recursion.

• Nature's Lore: Ramp for effectivly .

• Nighthowler: Just a beater. You can use Bestow from the graveyard with Karador since it is a creature when you try to cast it.

• Nyx Weaver: Blocks a flyer while milling for value. Recurs a card in a pinch.

• Oblivion Ring: Exiles forever with a sac outlet. Can flicker permanents for repeated ETBs. Used for combo wins.

• Pattern of Rebirth: Tutors directly onto the battlefield. Great for finding missing combo pieces.

• Perilous Forays: Best ramp card in the deck. Mana efficient after 5 fetches.

• Pharika, God of Affliction: Pinpoint graveyard hate. If you have to exile your own stuff the game is lost almost certainly.

• Rancor: Cheapest Constellation enabler. Trample can net you a surprise kill. Simply hilarious with Auratog.

• Restoration Specialist: Enchantment recursion that makes Karador cheaper. Only way to recur Altar of Dementia if it gets into the graveyard.

• Reveillark: 2 for 1 recursion. Has 23 potential targets. Karador can Evoke too. No Karmic Guide because I don't want to.

• Satyr Wayfinder: Cheap self mill. Net a land as a bonus.

• Sterling Grove: tutor an enchantment. Shroud isn't that usefull, as we can recur everything anyways.

• Sun Titan: The deck has white so you gotta play him. If you got a problem he is probably the solution. Best creature in the deck.

• Thoughtrender Lamia: 3 for 1 with every Constellation trigger. Draws much hate towards you.

• Toxic Deluge: The best board wipe.

• Verduran Enchantress: #5 to have the whole package. Just having one in play is great. More than one is ridiculous.

• Zendikar Resurgent: Double mana and card draw. If you untap with it you most likely win the game.

Playtested cards that didn't make the cut

• All the Bestow cards: All of them are overpriced in mana and offer little. Only Nighthowler remains, as he is a nice beater.

• Sigil of the Empty Throne: Needs at least 6 mana to spawn the first flyer. Draws too much attention. Found myself sacing the tokens more often than attacking with them.

• Celestial Ancient: When I had him, enough creatures to boost and enough enchantments to trigger him, I was winning already.

• Starfield of Nyx: Costs 5, does nothing for a turn. The interaction with gods is very complicated and was almost never in my favour.

• Deadbridge Chant: A 6 mana, mill 10. Nets only one card each turn. Never hit the creature I needed if it even hit. Felt very underwelming compared to the enchantresses.

• Courser of Kruphix: Really slow card advantage. Just not good enough without multiple land drops.

• Spirit of the Labyrinth: With all the enchantresses this was effecting my deck the most. I could play around it with sacing and reanimating but it was too much of a hassle.

• Karmic Guide: Never was amazing. Could get an instant win with Altar of Dementia using the Boonweaver Giant chain which is too cheesy for my taste.

• Varolz, the Scar-Striped: Thought I needed a sac outlet on a creature. Enchantments are plenty fine though.

• Helm of the Gods: Nice boost in damage but weaker than Nighthowler.

• Strength from the Fallen: If you can trigger this enough to kill someone you either have a full graveyard or many enchantments in play which means you are winning already. Either sat in my hand doing nothing or won me the game when any other Constellation would have done the same.

• Phyrexian Arena: Sounds weird but never amazed me in this deck as a draw option. Only good in the first 5 turns. Feels just weak compared to an enchantress.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Key combos	Auratog + Rancor Animate Dead + Leonin Relic-Warder Faith Healer + Oblivion Ring + Sun Titan Altar of Dementia + Fiend Hunter + Sun Titan Fiend Hunter + Leonin Relic-Warder + Oblivion Ring Agent of Erebos + Daxos the Returned + Thoughtrender Lamia Fallen Ideal + Karador, Ghost Chieftain + Nighthowler
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.24
Tokens	Enchantment Cleric 2/1 W, Enchantment Snake 1/1 BG, Enchantment Spirit */* WB, Experience Token
Folders	Cool Stuff, Decks to build IRL, Fruity Loops