Can you not? ~Enchantress Primer~

Commander / EDH Enchantment GWU (Bant) Hatebears Midrange Pillow Fort Primer

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Acceleration (11)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Herald of the Pantheon
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Nessian Wanderer
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Sylvan Scrying

Control (9)

• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Glare of Subdual
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Kiora Bests the Sea God
• 1x Kismet
• 1x Night Soil
• 1x Prison Term
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Stoic Angel

Offense (6)

• 1x Archon of Sun's Grace
• 1x Bonds of Mortality
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Kiora Bests the Sea God
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Sigil of the Empty Throne

Tutor (6)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Plea for Guidance
• 1x Sterling Grove

Pillow Fort (10)

• 1x Archetype of Imagination
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Greater Auramancy
• 1x Ivory Mask
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Privileged Position
• 1x Sigarda, Host of Herons
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Worship

Card Draw (9)

• 1x Argothian Enchantress
• 1x Femeref Enchantress
• 1x Kestia, the Cultivator
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Satyr Enchanter
• 1x Setessan Champion
• 1x Verduran Enchantress

Buff (6)

• 1x Ancestral Mask
• 1x Archon of Sun's Grace
• 1x Helm of the Gods
• 1x Kestia, the Cultivator
• 1x Setessan Champion
• 1x Yavimaya Enchantress

Enchantment Fixing (5)

• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Enchanted Evening
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Heliod, God of the Sun

Commander (1)

Combos (9)

• 1x Animal Boneyard
• 1x Aura Thief
• 1x Cleansing Meditation
• 1x Enchanted Evening
• 1x Enduring Ideal
• 1x Hive Mind
• 1x Primeval Light
• 1x Starfield of Nyx
• 1x Sterling Grove

Color Fixing (6)

• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Treva's Ruins

Basics (27)

• 9x Forest
• 8x Island
• 10x Plains

Recursion (3)

• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Replenish
• 1x Starfield of Nyx

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Other (5)

• 1x Jukai Naturalist
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Sanctum Weaver
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sythis, Harvest's Hand

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Main Wincons

This deck will typically take one of two routes: the Starfield of Nyx route or the Enchanted Evening route (as they are mutually exclusive). The former maximizes the card search abilities of Sterling Grove and Defense of the Heart to build up that pillow fort before going for the Enduring Ideal and Hive Mind finisher or getting enough enchantments out to have creature advantage and flood attacks. The latter relies on ruining your opponents' lives once everything is an enchantment with hate cards like Aura Thief, Cleansing Meditation, Primeval Light and global-buffed cards like Ancestral Mask and Yavimaya Enchantress. With both routes, getting Sterling Grove out makes life much easier, but there are other worthy tutor targets like Land Tax, Kruphix, God of Horizons, and Nyxbloom Ancient to increase the speed of the deck.

Surviving the Haters

The pillow fort aspect can be played to either draw attention or distract it. Cards like Kismet, Archetype of Imagination, Dragonlord Dromoka, and Stoic Angel can quickly make you a target in multiplayer matches (which this deck is best suited for). But, cards like Karmic Justice, Sphere of Safety, Ivory Mask and Sigarda, Host of Herons make it difficult for your opponents to approach without reproach. Regardless of play style, cards like Privileged Position and especially Sterling Grove are essential.

Play Style

There is much more focus on card draw than ramp in the deck which can cripple it early on if the lands don't come quickly. This deck runs on far fewer lands than I am normally comfortable with in EDH, but its pillow fort capabilities allow you to fly under the radar early on in multiplayer then quickly turn the board advantage to your favor with one or two cards. With the amount of card draw in the deck, getting Kruphix, God of Horizons, Library of Leng, or Reliquary Tower helps maintain goodies until Serra's Sanctum, Mana Reflection, and/or Nyxbloom Ancient are hit. If the deck works (still a bigger if that I would like - suggestion more than welcome), by turn 8 it should hopefully be positioned to win regardless of the number of opponents.

Sideboard and other Options

Aggro decks can take a huge chunk out of this deck before it gets its legs under it. Taking out reactionary cards like Night Soil and replacing them with a couple lands and more ramp like Kodama's Reach can balance this deck's defense to suit more aggressive opponents. Landstill/destruction can also ruin this deck; but with access to green, there are great solutions available: Splendid Reclamation, Titania, Protector of Argoth, Abundance, and Bounty of the Luxa.

Some other good sideboard options are:

• Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• Aurification
• Humility
• Nevermore
• Circle of Solace
• Stony Silence
• Story Circle
• Overwhelming Splendor

Originally, Derevi, Empyrial Tactician was the general for the deck. I think she is still a great option, especially since her ability can speed up the deck early on (being able to tap Serra's Sanctum twice in one phase is devastating). If she is used, I would recommend other multi-mana producing lands, like the Ravnica duals. I find they are slow on their own, but with Derevi's ability, they are quite powerful.

Key/Powerful Combos

• Animal Boneyard + Aura Thief + Enchanted Evening
• Enduring Ideal + Hive Mind
• Starfield of Nyx + Sterling Grove
• Nyxbloom Ancient + Serra's Sanctum
• Enchanted Evening + Femeref Enchantress + Primeval Light
• Copy Enchantment + Estrid's Invocation on Sigil of the Empty Throne or Rhystic Study or Sphere of Safety or Nyxbloom Ancient depending on your needs.

I am definitely open to adjusting this deck more! It seems every new block adds tons of versatility with the enchantress archetype and I would love to discuss some different ways this deck could go (side note: when I first built this deck on tappedout, its price was about $450. The new sets have SERIOUSLY increased the value of some of these cards - so, building enchantress decks is a great investment haha). The archived discussion relates to an older version of the deck, but it contains some interesting ideas if you're looking to build an enchantress of your own. Thanks for stopping by!

Top Ranked	Achieved #3 position in Commander / EDH Primer 3 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	10 months
Key combos	Enduring Ideal + Hive Mind Starfield of Nyx + Sterling Grove Animal Boneyard + Aura Thief + Enchanted Evening Copy Enchantment + Estrid's Invocation Enchanted Evening + Femeref Enchantress + Primeval Light
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.54
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Enchantment Cleric 2/1 W, Kraken 8/8 U w/ Hexproof, Pegasus 2/2 W, Saproling 1/1 G
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