cEDH Estrid's Masquerade

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Enchantment GWU (Bant) Hatebears Stax

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Land (31)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 3x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (8)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Torpor Orb

Creature (25)

• 1x Alms Collector
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Argothian Enchantress
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Containment Priest
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Giver of Runes
• 1x Hushbringer
• 1x Hushwing Gryff
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
• 1x Leonin Arbiter
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Oakhame Adversary
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Samurai of the Pale Curtain
• 1x Sanctum Prelate
• 1x Satyr Enchanter
• 1x Spirit of the Labyrinth

Instant (12)

• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Spell Snare
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Trickbind
• 1x Turn Aside

Commander (1)

Enchantment (18)

• 1x Abundant Growth
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Decree of Silence
• 1x Dense Foliage
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Psychic Surgery
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Solemnity
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Stony Silence
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Verity Circle
• 1x Wild Growth

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Wrath of God

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Creature (10)

• 1x Archetype of Imagination
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Giver of Runes
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Satyr Enchanter
• 1x Setessan Champion
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Attunement
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Suppression Field

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Transmute Artifact

Artifact (3)

• 1x Damping Sphere
• 1x Helm of Obedience
• 1x The Chain Veil

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

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Estrid's Masquerade -

The cEDH deck built to kill combos

For when your meta is a lot of fast combo, and you don't want to just race them instead.

Problem

Flash Hulk, Food Chain, Storm, Reanimators are over represented in your meta.

Solution

Stax them out with a very aggressive, proactive plan, then protect those pieces with Estrid masks.

Warning

1. This deck probably get's mashed by a lot of midrange, value-driven casual decks. They will out-value you.
2. With Flash Hulk, this deck often times still won't do enough to not lose to flash hulk.

Game Plan

1. Mulligan hard to get either plenty of ramp or (preferably both) a turn 1 stax piece that shuts off a combo.
2. Play stax pieces so you have at least two.
3. Play Estrid, mask a stax piece.
4. Keep masking stax piece and assembling more. Depending on your ramp, its ok to let Estrid die by masking three permanents in a row.
5. Eventually work your way into one of the game-winning (ish) combos / setups:

Decree of Silence + Solemnity Counters all but uncounterable spells your opponents cast.

Stasis + Estrid, the Masked lock down your opponent's untap steps. Note: This doesn't actually win the game, but if you can protect it and play it at the right time, you should have it locked up.

Luminarch Ascension can eventually become inevitable.

Design Theory

1. Do play selected Stax pieces that stop fast combo.
2. Do play Estrid to protect your Stax pieces with totem armor. Remember, these can all get bounced. Cyclonic rift is basically your nightmare, but, if all three players are on fast combo, people either won't let that resolve, or will try to win in response.
3. Do NOT play Stax pieces that shut off mana resources - Estrid can eventually break parity but not by enough, and not as fast as other fast combo decks can just fight through it.
4. Do NOT play interaction - there are a handful of instants in the deck with very specific roles, but for the most part we are looking to use most/all of our mana each turn advancing our game plan, which is building an army of hatebears, enchantments, and artifacts. You do not have room for the extra slots, and you can't afford to not be advancing your game plan.
5. Do NOT play this into a midrange, casual, 75% meta. Sort of like Blood Pod, it will get ruined.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 64 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.07
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Bird 2/2 U, Mask
Folders	Combo Deck