Ertai Enchantment Combo

Commander / EDH Enchant Sacrifice WUB (Esper)

BilliBeam

Enchantment (27)

• 1x Act of Authority
• 1x Chime of Night
• 1x Confounding Conundrum
• 1x Dance of Many
• 1x Demonic Lore
• 1x Demonic Pact
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Doom Foretold
• 1x Enchanted Evening
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Hatching Plans
• 1x Induced Amnesia
• 1x Martyr's Bond
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Omen of the Sea
• 1x Opalescence
• 1x Parallax Tide
• 1x Parallax Wave
• 1x Phyrexian Scriptures
• 1x Planar Collapse
• 1x Reality Acid
• 1x Sigil of the Empty Throne
• 1x Spreading Seas
• 1x Standstill
• 1x Starfield of Nyx
• 1x Treacherous Blessing

Instant (6)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Final Payment
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Perilous Research
• 1x Read the Runes
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Brightclimb Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip
• 7x Island
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 7x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vault of Champions

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Claws of Gix
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Progress

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Archon of Sun's Grace
• 1x Aura Thief
• 1x Auramancer
• 1x Auratog
• 1x Barrin, Master Wizard
• 1x Faith Healer
• 1x Ghostly Pilferer
• 1x Grim Guardian
• 1x Phantatog
• 1x Protean Thaumaturge
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Starfield Mystic
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Vedalken Mastermind

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Cleansing Meditation
• 1x Dance of the Manse
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Tragic Arrogance

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Academy Rector

Instant (1)

• 1x Energy Arc

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Replenish

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Gameplan

Combo deck which aims to control the board with various enchantments, gaining advantages for sacrificing them and closing the game with combos like Cleansing Meditation + Enchanted Evening or Opalescence + Parallax Tide + Parallax Wave . Backup plan is beatdown with Archon of Sun's Grace or Sigil of the Empty Throne . The powerlevel of the deck is around 6 to 7.

Stalling psychologically

As we usually want the game to drag on for us to find the needed combo we play cards to stall the game indirectly

• Ertai, the Corrupted -> Keep one blue mana open and this guy untapped and your opponents will hesitate to play anything important. Often the threat to counter is more effective than the counter itself. You can also get political with it and make deals to not counter if they don't attack you for example.
• Standstill -> Also gives our opponents cards but makes opponents hesitate to play anything. On top of that you can sacrifice it with the effect on the stack to let it fizzle because it needs to sacrifice itself for the effect to work
• Planar Collapse / Phyrexian Scriptures -> Usually the enemies don't want to play creatures into a board wipe...
• Confounding Conundrum -> Negates sorcery speed ramp and replaces itself for 2 mana. Can eat important enchantment removal vs decks that rely on landfall

Finding the combo

We currently don't play too many tutors because even though I like combo decks I don't like to play every game identical

• Vampiric Tutor -> Gets anything
• Mystical Tutor -> Gets Cleansing Meditation as combo piece or a emergency Supreme Verdict
• Idyllic Tutor -> Gets combo pieces or specific interaction like Spreading Seas

We have a lot of cards to replace themselves or draw additional cards to dig through our library

Replaces itself

Spreading Seas , Confounding Conundrum , Doom Foretold , Omen of the Sea , Stupefying Touch , Auramancer , Solemn Simulacrum

Drawing additional cards

Standstill , Demonic Lore , Demonic Pact , Induced Amnesia , Perilous Research , Read the Runes

Sacrificing enchantments

The main theme of this deck is sacrificing enchantments which either generate value through sacrificing them like Demonic Pact or Hatching Plans or abusing the Stack with cards like Oblivion Ring or Dance of Many .

Sacrifice outlets

• Ertai, the Corrupted
• Doom Foretold
• Claws of Gix
• Smokestack
• Final Payment
• Perilous Research
• Read the Runes
• Auratog
• Barrin, Master Wizard
• Faith Healer
• Phantatog

Abusing the Stack

There are a couple of ways to abuse the stack with certain enchantments.

• Oblivion Ring / Detention Sphere -> Exile target nonland permanent forever
• Parallax Tide / Parallax Wave -> Exile 5 lands/creatures permanently
• Dance of Many -> Get the token permanently
• Act of Authority -> Get a second trigger without giving an opponent the card

Staying alive

One of the main problems of the deck is instant interaction, which outside of Ertai, the Corrupted isn't really present. We play a couple of board wipes to not die too early in the game.

• Tragic Arrogance -> Great at picking off threats and keeping Ertai, the Corrupted and fodder for him alive
• Planar Collapse -> Great at keeping the board empty in the early game since usually no one wants to play into it. Best case it stays for multiple rounds to get us time to dig for the combo pieces
• Oblivion Stone -> To keep important pieces around
• Phyrexian Scriptures -> Also great to keep Ertai, the Corrupted around

Combos

As combos are the main win condition in this deck there are a couple available:

• Enchanted Evening + Cleansing Meditation / Aura Thief -> Most straightforward combo. Either gain control of all permanents or destroy all permanents of your opponents.
• Opalescence + Parallax Wave + Parallax Tide -> Have all three pieces on the field, target Parallax Wave and Parallax Tide with Parallax Wave , then target other lands/creatures you control. The Stack resolves exiling all targeted permanents with both Parallaxes last which triggers the "leaves the battlefield" bringing back all exiled cards, netting you infinite ETB and infinite mana. You can also Switch the stack order up to exile all lands and creatures of all opponents, letting the Parallaxes leave trigger resovle first and then exiling all other targeted permanents.
• Sun Titan + Dance of Many + any free enchantment sacrifice outlet Auratog , Faith Healer , Phantatog -> Either have Dance of Many or Sun Titan on the Field, then cast the other one either copying Sun Titan or bringing back Dance of Many . With the ETB of Dance of Many on the Stack sacrifice it. A copy of Sun Titan will be created targeting Dance of Many and giving us infinite enchantment and creature ETB which can win with Grim Guardian or creating infinite Titans that can attack next turn.
• Opalescence / Starfield of Nyx + Grim Guardian + Dance of Many + Mirrormade -> Have either Opalescence or Starfield of Nyx with enough enchantments and Grim Guardian on the field. Cast Dance of Many targeting any creature. Cast Mirrormade targeting the original Dance of Many to generate infinite ETB to ping all enemies to death with Grim Guardian

Ideally you want to start to combo off with Ertai, the Corrupted untapped to protect the combo from enemy interaction.

Maybe Board

• Academy Rector -> Nice target for Ertai, the Corrupted and can fetch the important Enchanted Evening or Opalescence -> Currently not in budget
• Replenish -> Really good with nearly 30 enchantments, can also recur important combo pieces -> Currently also not in budget
• Energy Arc -> Fog effect and/or additional untap with Ertai, the Corrupted , will maybe replace the slot of Ghostly Pilferer

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Cleansing Meditation + Enchanted Evening Opalescence + Parallax Tide + Parallax Wave
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.86
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Copy Clone, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Pegasus 2/2 W
Folders	Commander, EDH