Chain Veil Estrid

Commander / EDH Competitive Control Enchantment GWU (Bant) Infinite Combo Primer

Rell

Land (31)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Manifold Insights
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Windfall

Artifact (18)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Helm of Obedience
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x The Chain Veil
• 1x Voltaic Key

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Abundant Growth
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Power Artifact
• 1x Quiet Disrepair
• 1x Relic Ward
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Viridian Harvest
• 1x Wild Growth

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Commander (1)

Instant (18)

• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Whir of Invention

Creature (8)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Trinket Mage

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Walking Ballista

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Braingeyser

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Artifact (1)

• 1x Cursed Totem

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The first thing I thought of was Teferi's ability to untap 4 of his permanents. I personally believe that this deck doesn't need to reinvent the wheel. Looping a chain veil with some mana rocks/lands is gonna be the big goal here.
The object of the deck is to make infinite mana with Estrid, the Masked and The Chain Veil and use the mana to win the game.

Lines of Play

Ideally you want to start with a fetch in your hand. You probably want 2 to MAYBE 3 lands in your opener. The fetch should grab either Breeding Pool or Temple Garden, but ideally breeding pool. This is because breeding pool both makes blue, and is a valid target for Utopia Sprawl. You want to play 1-2 mana rocks turn one as well. Any hand that lets you attempt a turn 1 Timetwister is generally a keep. If you can forcibly mull your opponents hands and refill yours, you can almost guarantee a win. After that, you'll want to use Estrid, the Masked to generate enough to mana to find The Chain Veil and loop it to win. Be aware, you can't use one of Estrid's other abilities until you find a way to copy/untap The Chain Veil.
I would not reccomend ever touching Estrid's ult. The deck doesn't play enough enchantments for it to be relevant, so its basically just going to mill us for 7. However, if you have a lot of enchantments in your yard and somehow you get her to ult range, IF IT CAN REANIMATE YOUR COMBO, you should go for it. However, as a general rule, its a bad idea.

Combo Execution

Your combo has 3 major components.

The Chain Veil. The only irreplaceable piece of the combo you're actually shooting for. The only real way to loop Estrid, the Masked
Estrid, the Masked. Since she sits in the command zone, finding her shouldn't be very difficult. Our primary untap engine and great planeswalker.
The last piece of our combo is any set of permanents you can enchant that make 5 mana. It is entirely that simple.

Win Conditions

This list plays 3 primary win conditions, but you can basically add anything that's either:
1. An Infinite Mana Sink.
2. A planeswalker with abilities that deal damage, mill, or otherwise kill your opponent.
3. An infinite combo to kill/mill/win.
However, the 3 I've included are my personal favorites.
- Jace, the Mind Sculptor. With infinite planeswalker activations off of looping The Chain Veil, playing Jace lets you plus him until his loyalty is whatever you want it to be. Using his ult on one player twice will exile all cards from that players hand and library.
- Stroke of Genius is a classic. If you have infinite mana, it reads "Target opponent attempts to draw 30000 cards and fails." A simple kill and easy to use as a draw spell for yourself if in need of cards.
- Rest in Peace and Helm of Obedience. Target player no longer has a library. With Estrid, you can actually untap the Helm and use it multiple times over one turn to kill everyone else at the table.

Not being able to combo early

So when somebody else is trying to lock you out and your worried about your friends General Tazri deck blowing up out of no where, we can fall back into a decent control deck. We play multiple different ways to win, if The Chain Veil is taken out of our game plan, we can generally just fall back onto denying others the opportunity to win while we rebuild.

Common Matchups

Estrid here has some pretty decent match-ups in a competitive sense. This deck can definitely hold its own at most if not all competitive tables you take her to.
- Combo Decks
She's happy to race other combo decks, since you can win between turn 3-5 while holding decent interaction up.
- Control Decks
When playing into a control deck, you're definitely going to need to wait on an opening. However, you can fall into your control pieces until you see something open up.
- Stax Decks
This is a bit rougher. If a stax deck starts setting up things that stop your combo, they are stopping someone elses combo too. Ideally, they'll take care of it before it becomes your problem, but if need be, you can bounce it or remove it on the end step before you try to go off.

Budget Cuts

FULL BUDGET LISTS COMING SOON
There are a handful of obvious cuts to start with:
- Timetwister
- Tundra
- Savannah
- Tropical Island
- Mox Diamond
- Force of Will
- Jace, the Mind Sculptor
- Mana Crypt
- Mox Opal
- Noble Hierarch
- Serra's Sanctum
- Time Spiral
- Transmute Artifact
- Power Artifact
- Grim Monolith

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	BR
Splash colors	W
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.12
Tokens	Mask, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	Take Note, [7] Player Decks - (Not mine)