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CommanderNeyo on Mist-taken!

1 week ago

Some good, cheap ramp are Wild Growth and Utopia Sprawl (which you can often find under a dollar). If you ever decide to push the budget some, Sanctum Weaver is great! Other possible cards could be Jukai Naturalist and Starfield Mystic.

I highly recommend more card draw, so you don't run out of gas. Enchantress's Presence, Mesa Enchantress, Satyr Enchanter, Eidolon of Blossoms, and Verduran Enchantress are all great (and, again, if you want to push the budget include Setessan Champion, Kor Spiritdancer, or Sram, Senior Edificer, all of which you can sometimes find under a dollar).

JettTheDuet on Call the EPA: Enchanted Pod Approach [Primer]

1 month ago

@xraider I finally caved and replaced Setessan Champion with Entity Tracker to help support Force of Negation. The flash is also a nice "gotcha" bonus!

JettTheDuet on Call the EPA: Enchanted Pod Approach [Primer]

2 months ago

@ xraider Thank you for the suggestions. I had considered Entity Tracker and while I already had Setessan Champion for a 3-drop ETB effect, I had already met my draw effect quota for the deck. The two cards can be interchangeable though, especially if I decide to run Force of Will, I will consider cutting more green cards for blue.

Cloudstone Curio is good but an even better suggestion would be Cloud Cover since it keeps with the synergy. However, my goal was to keep the deck more narrow so I had to cut that idea.

I appreciate the suggestions!

Jett

CickNason on Sigard the Heron's enchantment

1 year ago

Enchantress inclusions

Setessan Champion & Sythis, Harvest's Hand are some new and good enchantress options

Mana Fixing

Sanctum Weaver scales with all your auras

Jukai Naturalist & Herald of the Pantheon are a medallion for your enchantments

Delighted Halfling makes your commander and all legendaries uncounterable

Protection

Teferi's Protection & Flawless Manuever & Everybody Lives! are great general protection spells

Mithril Coat has flash and can protect your sigarda in a pinch and make her borderline unremovable.

Veil of Summer is OP nonsense

Myrel, Shield of Argive is a legendary Grand Abolisher with upside

Synergy Picks

Yenna, Redtooth Regent copies your auras and untaps can make you sigarda huge very quickly if you have the mana

Almost Perfect sets Sigarda's Base P/T to 9/10 and she can still be buffed

Well Rested for the buffs, life and draw all for 2 mana

Hope this helped

wallisface on Setessan’s Hand

2 years ago

I really like this build - I think the black adds a new element to the deck that creates some new avenues for messing with the opponent.

I'm personally still not sold on Setessan Champion, but it's definitely not-nearly as much of a liability in this shell.

Aura of Silence feels like a sideboard card in that its probably not useful in all matchups.

wallisface on Sigil of the Enchantments

2 years ago

I'm not suggesting the deck has to be identical to the pre-existing archetype, though if you're playing Green-White then I think the end result will probably end up looking very close to that archetype, just because its already running most of the best options available in those colors.

You can certainly run enchantment decks with a higher creature count, but you want to ensure all of those creatures are bringing something strong to the table and synergize with one-another. The big problem with Setessan Champion is that it's not an enchantment itself so doesn't help any of the other cards in your deck. Its card draw is nice, but I think it needs a lot of work to not feel like a liability.

Going down a more creature-centric plan, I'm wondering if using the Neon-Dynasty sagas are a good plan? Many of them flip into creatures on their final chapter, and quite a few of those cards (from memory) care about or help enchantments.

I'll have a look at the other list now.

wallisface on Sigil of the Enchantments

2 years ago

Looks a lot stronger - some thoughts though:

• I'm personally not a huge fan of Dance of the Manse or Setessan Champion. Dance feels like it just needs a lot of mana to still only have a "meh" effect. Champion has an alright card-drawing effect, but the +1/+1 stuff is often pointless, and the fact he's not an enchantment himself causes big tempo issues. Sythis, Harvest's Hand and Enchantress's Presence are just soo much better.

• I'd opt for Sigil of the Empty Throne over Starfield of Nyx. Starfield is just inviting your opponent into playing their board-wipe. Sigil is a much safer way to win the game from the safety of the pillow-fort.

• Your mana curve is low enough that you can play this with much less lands than you are currently. I think you can pretty safely go down to 21-22 lands.

• You need some form of protection while you're pumping out enchants - at the moment your early-game is still at risk of being destroyed by a fast-attack. Enchantress decks typically run Solitary Confinement to keep themselves safe, though if you're not a fan of that card, Ghostly Prison could work nicely also.

Niko9 on Need help for a green …

2 years ago

Cool, well it looks like an awesome build already, and here are maybe a few suggestions from my time as an elf player. Love the commander too, Freya may not be the most combo-power commander, but she's an amazing toolbox and sometimes that's so much better : )

allosaurus shepard isn't really necessary and can cut back the overall price a lot. I'd say the same with growing rights of itlimoc and in general all of the land ramp might be unnecessary just due to how much creature ramp you will get. Things like Fauna Shaman will be better than land based ramp because they will help you hit your Priest of Titania or other elf-ramp.

To replace some of the ramp like Kodama's Reach I'd put in more big creatures to pay off your ramp. carterhoof behemoth may be the staple, but there are great low cost alternatives.

Other than that there are a few ways you can go with the deck. Elfs can do many infinite combos if that's interesting in the playgroup, or you could also splash enchantments for Setessan Champion and other enchantress card draw. Or you could add toolbox creatures to make an aggro midrange deck that attacks with elves and equipments.

But yep, looks like a great deck already. I just think that to make it budget you might just want to look at what is really necessary. Worldly Tutor and Boseju and The Great Henge and nyxthos and Veil of Summer, I don't think they make the deck run as much as they make it run better, where something like Coat of Arms is absolutely one to include.