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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Words of War
Enchantment
(1): The next time you would draw a card this turn, Words of War deals 2 damage to target creature or player instead.
Gidgetimer on Pattern Recognition #296 - Enchanté
7 months ago
I feel like you skipped over a whole slew of the development of Enchantress as an archetype and therefore presented it as being a deck in search of a win con before Theros. It has always been tier 2 jank in legacy, but it was powerful enough to take occasional large tournament wins.
You mentioned Urza's block and mention the two cards with "Enchantress" in their name but not Serra's Sanctum or Replenish. The latter two actually make it into competitive eternal decks and Yavimaya Enchantress does not.
The Sanctum in particular is extremely important to the way the deck developed. The plan in many eternal enchantress decks is legitimately to hardcast Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. This still takes until turn 5 or 6 and is durdly as hell for the format, but all that mana from the Sanctum makes it a legitimate plan. Alternatively the win condition in many others is to plop down a Sigil of the Empty Throne and go wide with 4/4 angels. I even have a friend who ran Words of War as a wincon, again greatly aided by the Sanctum.
The "dig to the combo" you mention that is actually played is Helm/RIP and is the third commonly played wincon. And I'm not sure I agree with the assessment that it defies expectations, or should be abandoned in favor of playing blue. At its heart Enchantress as an archetype is GWx control and the wincon can be almost anything.
Wincons from Theros were never even added to eternal Enchantress, they kept the old wincons and added at most a few Eidolon of Blossoms and a few Doomwake Giant. The return to Theros did give us Destiny Spinner who is a wincon that is run. MH2 also had a large impact on eternal Enchantress by adding Sythis, Harvest's Hand and Sanctum Weaver.
This isn't to say that there haven't been strong enchantments coming out recently. Or that it isn't nice that they are supporting the archetype to an extent that a standard deck can be made out of it. It is just that if one wants to talk about the evolution of the archetype it should be done primarily in the context of competitive eternal formats where it will remain unchanged until a card changes the archetype. With mentions of rotating and casual formats to show the archetype across the whole of Magic.
seshiro_of_the_orochi on
Tovolar's pack
2 years ago
One easy cut is Words of War. The synergy with Tovolar is pretty cool and creative, but I really think you'd usually want to turn a card drawn into 2 damage.
TTT60 on
2 years ago
Gidgetimer on Win Con for Gruul Enchantress?
2 years ago
A finisher in some Legacy Enchantress decks is Words of War . I haven't played EDH Enchantress, so I don't know if drawing the critical amount of cards per turn is a thing they can do or not. I too am a little surprised that you didn't include white, if only for Serra's Sanctum . Though again, I am only familiar with Legacy Enchantress, which is a GW deck with occasional splashes so minor that it isn't even GWx.
(holy cow, didn't realize how expensive sanctum was getting.)
seshiro_of_the_orochi on Card creation challenge
3 years ago
Invoke the Divine
Instant
Search your library for a creature card that is a god, a spirit, an incarnation or an Avatar, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your library afterwards.
Take Stone Rain , Chain of Plasma and Words of War and somehow combine them into a single card.
seshiro_of_the_orochi on Booby trap
3 years ago
So I assume we're talking 60 card kitchen table?
How about a basic shell with Zur's Weirding and Words of War ? You can easily put Booby Trap into this build.
MagicMarc on Heavy Metal (1981): the 40th …
3 years ago
I am a huge fan of this film, the animation and the amazing music that makes up the soundtrack. I have even made a deck inspired by Veteran of the Psychic Wars by Blue Oyster Cult that uses Psychic Vortex and Words of War to win games. Which is literally a "Psychic War". You can see it here: Veteran Of The Psychic Wars.
So, thank you for posting this anniversary thread!
There actually is a central theme and story to Heavy Metal. It even comes full circle over the course of the various vignettes.
Spoiler Alert
After the opening sequence we are, in the first vignette, introduced to the Loc-Nar which is the "Sum of All Evils" and it begins to terrorize the little girl and show her how through the ages and in various worlds it twists and destroys all that is good. During each of the following stories you see the Loc-Nar over and over again tempt and destroy everything and then, in the Taarna sequence, a warrior women sacrifices herself to destroy the Loc-Nar. In the final scene, you discover the little girl is a reincarnation of the warrior woman who flies away as the Loc-Nar explodes.
End Spoiler
For me, the movie is all about choice and the cycle of life. This means that evil is real, omnipresent and never truly can be defeated. But your life and your deeds matter. And you can make a decision to do the right thing or let the Mob Rule. So how you live your life is what's important.
And the soundtrack is one of the best samples of rock and roll in the era at the time the film was made. Black Sabbath, Nazareth, Blue Oyster Cult, Riggs, Don Felder, Devo, Steve Nicks and more. Lot of great music.
I was a kid when I saw this at a Midnight show in the movie theater when it came out and I have seen many of the featured bands in concert.