enchanté & désenchantée (Enchantment Sac & Recursion Control) • (Esper Commander deck) • Archidekt

The Master of Keys - Commander deck Control • Sacrifice • Enchantments • Graveyard • Enchantress • Self-Mill (1) Commander • (9) Altars • (6) Burn • (7) Cardboard fetching • (11) Cardboard treats • (41) Land • (8) Mass Disruption • (11) Mill • (3) More MORE!!!! • (12) Protecc • (4) Ramp • (10) Recursion • (10) sparkly fodder • (12) Targetted Disruption • (3) whimsical rat combo Overview Enchanté & Désenchantée is my personal take on building an enchantress deck in Esper colour with a sacrificing twist. The deck is a control deck, aiming to gain value from playing and sacrificing its own enchantments, grinding out opponents in value by recurring enchantments from the graveyard while burning them slowly, until it has accrued enough resources to give an explosive coup de grâce. Soundtrack Around the deck Inspiration The deck was inspired by the Wilds of Eldraine mechanics, in particular its role enchantment tokens combined with the Bargain mechanic, and different payoffs for putting enchantments in the graveyard like [[Warehouse Tabby]] combined with [[Twisted Sewer-Witch]] combined. I wanted to build a deck where these two cards could live without being overshadowed or concentrating the deck on a gimmick. Game plan The main game plan is to use the graveyard as an extended hand to cast enchantments from, and to recurr removal to control the game while burning opponents by casting or sacrificing enchantments. The spot removal suite is entirely made of enchantments, and most of them do not need to stick around to achieve what they need to do (some even benefit from being sacrificed, more on that later). The deck wants to win by burning players via a large amount of enchantments enterring the battlefield or being sacrified, using a payoff like [[Grim Guardian]] or [[Wicked Visitor]]. To achieve control, the deck wants to: Fill the graveyard with enchantments to cast and duds to exile, using predominantly repeatable mill effects. Remove threats or value engine using enchantments, cast from the hand or from the graveyard via [[The Master of Keys]]'s ability. Sacrifice the enchantments to put them in the graveyard, and allow them to be escaped again and again using [[The Master of Keys]]'s ability, while building up card advantage and mana. Rinse & repeat until you can push for a win. In-depths [[Asinine Antics]] This is one of the most explosive enablers in the deck list, as this can spawn a huge amount of enchantments according to how many creatures are on the battlefield, and is the easiest finishing combo to pull off as it does a lot on its own as long as it's combined with burn payoff like a [[Grim Guardian]], which makes it function like a [[Rakdos Charm]] affecting only your opponents on top of debuffing their creatures and generating a supply of fodder, and at its floor, it is a mass disruption spell to turn off big creatures. Another interesting aspect of [[Asinine Antics]] is that it can trigger any Constellation or Eerie payoffs (not just burn), so you can: generate card draw with [[Entity Tracker]]; generate mill with [[Sage of Mysteries]]; board-wipe your opponent's creatures with [[Doomwake Giant]]; phase out non-enchantment permanents with [[Skybind]]. [[Amphibian Downpour]] This enchantments provides similar value to [[Asinine Antics]], with a few key differences. While it cannot generate nearly as many auras in a single spell, it offers the benefits of turning off the abilities of the creatures it is enchanting and being repeatable from the graveyard if the original card gets destroyed or sacrificed. [[Estrid's Invocation]] This is such a fun toolbox card. You can tutor for it with an enchantment like [[Gravebreaker Lamia]] or [[The Cruelty of Gix]], then cast it to flicker the enchantment to tutor for something else, potentially on each of your upkeep; you can generate Wicked tokens on each of your turn with [[Lord Skitter's Blessing]] [[Nashi, Searcher in the Dark]] This deck was originally a Dimir deck using Nashi as the commander, where most enchantments were also creatures to allow them to be recurred in Dimir colour (the lack of white makes it nearly impossible to recurr enchantments from the graveyard). I loved Nashi so much that I initially wanted him to be a secret Commander in the deck as a main mill engine, and that's the reason why I had added a fair amount of low-mana tutors to attempt playing him consistently at the start. Unfortunately, Nashi is hard to play late into the game when the deck isn't built around him being in the command zone, you need some form of evasion, and it becomes costly in terms of card slots and mana on such a tight deck list to allow him to connect every turn. He's still good in the opening hand and can easily scale with the +1/+1 as you can always leave the enchantments in the graveyard though, so he remains in the deck.