Why did you take out Purphoros? If anything I would have tried to make room for 2 Elspeth and left him in. Sometimes tokens on thier own wont be enough

Sideslip12

I figured he was a bit too combo-ey since he doesn't interact with anything other than assemble the legion and maybe elspeth. I would rather have more heliods to pump out enchantments and more instant-speed answers to various threats than purphoros. Also, the spear didn't help much either since I have to take damage for it to even be effective. Hopefully now I should have the answers to early game threats without worrying about things like protection using Gods Willing or the like.

What's your opinion on Curse of the Swine ?

@Esperret

In control decks, it mostly benefits you if you run tokens than anyone else, for purphoros-esque creature triggers and a suddenly massive army. Now, where this card would help a lot is in a simic with big dudes against another creaturey deck. If both decks have each other locked down by big dudes, the simic side can just cripple the enemy side and roll them over. Overall, a good card but really conditional.

Hope to god they don't play Planar Cleansing

tommyjohn

As if I would ever let that resolve... sadly because it has been done to me before. Luckily, I can just counter it and be on my merry way.

You might want to consider an answer outside counter magic or Supreme Verdict for Blood Baron of Vizkopa as he is seeing a huge spike in the amount he is played. Mizzium Mortars is a piece of removal that I've seen in a ton of American decks that is always relevant. (Yes RRR can be hard to spit out but then you usually aren't using it for the overload.)

so im considering building this with my stuff, but what would be a viable replacement for Stormbreath Dragon ? I'm cheap and I need to save the little money I have for bus rides, fnm entry, an Aurelia, and some heliods.

thinking im gonna go with AEtherling

for Sphinx's Revelation im gonna go with Steam Augury

Yea but 3 cards in a deck that can save you seems realllllly tenuous with the amount of play he's seeing lately.

@Ohthenoises

I see what you mean. However, there are 13 cards that can deal with him, provided I sideboard those celestial flares. If I have a heliod and stormbreath out, blood baron is essentially halted in his tracks from his lack of pro-red and stormbreath's pro-white vigilance. Not to mention the main focus of this deck, which is to prevent any creature from even attacking with sphere of safety.

Too cool! If I ever would return to standard, I'll play thys funny nice cool deck! Nice work

Fall87

Thanks bro, I always wanted to make an enchantment control deck, but it was never relevant or even competitively possible until Theros.

@CWYou can use Hypersonic Dragon instead of Stormbreath Dragon , but hypersonic doesn't have protection or monstrosity (but it's cheap :) )

Instant speed Mizzium Mortars ftw.

Interesting approach for control! Awesome!

oh yeah plus Hypersonic Dragon gives my Supreme Verdict s haste! I mean Flash!

I really like how this deck brings a number of ideas and strategies together - devotion and enchantments. This has encouraged me to build a deck like this.

+1

Thanks for liking the deck guys! Put a good bit of thought into good enchantment control, and massive forting with sphere of safety. I had always classified it as the card that wanted to be good, but now it can be all that it ever dreamed of being...

Lol I'm sure Sphere of Safety should be dreaming of bigger and better things yet to come with another TWO sets and THREE possible god cards it will be able to run. I also can't wait to see how this deck will fair next year when RTR rotates with Sphere of Safety ~possibilities~

I have a feeling I would run the u/w god since its the only one I would have any devotion for anyway... aside from heliod

Well, if Heliod was just and enchantment would you still run it? With / without indestructible ?

@Esperret

He wouldn't be mythic, but if he weren't indestructible, I would still run him. A dude that pumps out enchantment tokens that feed the sphere is always worth it. Aside from that, he gives vigilance, an ability that not many account for or expect, which is always helpful for combat tricks.

Hate to burst your bubble, (see what i did there), but Chained to the Rocks and Detention Sphere can be played in American, Bant and Esper, seeing as you can enchant an opponents mountain, you don't need to play red yourself. Derp.

@Schuesseled

You can't burst my sphere of safety; it says "enchant mountain you control" on chained to the rocks.