Estrid's Masked Ladies

Commander / EDH* Enchantment GWU (Bant) Multiplayer

Baycer

Land (35)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 2x Forest
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Island
• 1x Kor Haven
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 2x Plains
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Lockdown (4)

• 1x Cleansing Meditation
• 1x Decree of Silence
• 1x Solemnity
• 1x Words of Wind

Enrampments (13)

• 1x Abundant Growth
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x New Horizons
• 1x Overgrowth
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Verdant Haven
• 1x Weirding Wood
• 1x Wild Growth

Value (8)

• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Enchanted Evening
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Faith Healer
• 1x Flickering Ward
• 1x Herald of the Pantheon
• 1x Mana Bloom
• 1x Starfield Mystic

Removal (6)

• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Journey to Nowhere
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Slaughter the Strong
• 1x Supreme Verdict

Tutor (5)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Wargate

Hate (2)

• 1x Overburden
• 1x Stony Silence

Recursion (2)

• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Replenish

Commander (1)

Pillowfort (8)

• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Dueling Grounds
• 1x Ever-Watching Threshold
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Island Sanctuary
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Solitary Confinement
• 1x Sphere of Safety

Enchantresses (6)

• 1x Argothian Enchantress
• 1x Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1x Enchantress's Presence
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Satyr Enchanter
• 1x Verduran Enchantress

Protection (5)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Greater Auramancy
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Privileged Position
• 1x Sterling Grove

Draw-Filter (4)

• 1x Abundance
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Sylvan Library

Tokens (2)

• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Sigil of the Empty Throne

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Other (35)

• 1x Aegis of Honor
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Aura Thief
• 1x Auratog
• 1x Cloud Cover
• 1x Conviction
• 1x Dawn's Reflection
• 1x Dovescape
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Eladamri's Vineyard
• 1x Elephant Grass
• 1x Energy Field
• 1x Energy Flux
• 1x Gossamer Chains
• 1x Heliod, God of the Sun
• 1x Island Sanctuary
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Market Festival
• 1x Martyr's Bond
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Mirror Mockery
• 1x Opalescence
• 1x Parallax Wave
• 1x Phyrexian Unlife
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Remove Enchantments
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Seal of Removal
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Starfield of Nyx
• 1x Tuvasa the Sunlit
• 1x Urban Utopia
• 1x Voyaging Satyr
• 1x Wheel of Sun and Moon
• 1x Whip Silk

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This deck is designed to be highly tuned, efficient, and effective. but its not designed for competitive EDH, and can't effectively answer those decks, nor do I plan to add those answers. This deck is also designed to not be a drag on the game (as such it doesn't run many staxy elements, even if they would be good.) and not to annoy players the whole game ( Rhystic Study , Aura of Silence , City of Solitude , Energy Flux etc.) this deck flies under the radar for most of the game, doing somewhat minor and durdle-y things with enchantments. then all of a sudden this deck generates insane mana and slams enchantment after enchantment until the game is locked up. While the cards themselves are of a high power level, the deck's power level is intentionally held back with a lack of generic answers outside of the single Counterspell .

( Overburden probably crosses the line I set, but I haven't had a chance to properly test it yet)

Enchantress is a deck archetype involving a truckload of enchantments and the namesake "enchantresses" to cycle through your deck, while the enchantments themselves protect you from getting run over. Enchantress Decks have a couple different ways to win, which will vary based on the colors you have in your deck.

• Enchantment Lock, make it hard/impossible for anyone to play.
• Make a swarm of Tokens and hope they can survive a turn rotation
• Enchantment Combo kill people
• Slap on Ancestral Mask and/or Ethereal Armor and try to melt face
• Animate all your enchantments into shitty creatures
• Enchantment Combo kill everyone

Of these options, the vast majority of enchantress decks go for the Lock, gives you the best defensive options for an enchantress deck, and that is the main win condition of this list.

So here are our lovely ladies, the enchantresses: Argothian Enchantress , Enchantress's Presence , Verduran Enchantress , Mesa Enchantress , Satyr Enchanter , Eidolon of Blossoms these cards let you rapidly cycle through your deck while casting enchantments that protect you.

Terminology Show

"pillowfort" is the term used for cards that make it hard to attack you, such as Propaganda or Sphere of Safety . these pillowfort cards are what let you continue to build up your board without creatures and not get decimated by the other players.

"enrampments" Unlike most Commander decks, enchantress decks dont typically run ramp spells like Cultivate instead we run enrampments, which come in three flavors;

• auras that enchant lands to tap for more mana than normal: Wild Growth , Fertile Ground ,etc. (sidenote: the number of land auras you want to run varies based on how prevalent land destruction is in your meta)
• Enchantments that ramp you somehow: Exploration , Burgeoning , Font of Fertility , etc.
• Enchantments that "double" mana: Mana Reflection , Mirari's Wake , Dictate of Karametra , etc.

Playing the deck Show

The main gameplan for the deck is to play an enchantress as soon as possible, while playing as much pillowfort as you can get up safely. Don't play any major threat to the board without some sort of protection. (i.e. Dont play Luminarch Ascension without a reasonable amount of pillowfort, and ideally have a "cant target" enchantment up like Sterling Grove ). and eventually lock everyone out, giving you a slow but inevitable win. or just doing good ol' angel beatdown.

Early Game Show

For mulligans: 3 lands > Enchantress > Enchantress tutors > Early card draw > Enrampments > Pillowfort > Oblivion rings

Starting the game you'll want to start slow, playing too many enchantments too early puts a giant target on your forehead, keep pace with everyone else. (land auras being an exception to this, people seem to undervalue them heavily). Find an enchantress and just keep one down (even if you can play more), keep an eye out for threats to oblivion ring to play politics, and slowly build up the pillowfort.

Cards like: Serra's Sanctum , Luminarch Ascension , Sigil of the Empty Throne , Stony Silence are all cards that can put a massive target on you. hold off on these until you get a bit set up to defend yourself.

Cards like: Overburden , Burgeoning , and Mystic Remora can also paint a target on your head, but these ARE best played early. if you think your hand can handle the early aggression that might come your way, get these down, otherwise hold off a bit.

Midgame Show

Play politics with your Oblivion rings and cards like Stony Silence to keep others from comboing off, keep an eye on your available mana, and start setting up your "go off" turn, get estrid down with some land auras , find/cast a mana doubler. at this point you will be exceeding the pace of the rest of the table most likely. If you think you are starting to become the table focus you'll want to try and either hold back a bit or go into the "go off" turn.

alternatively if you think someone is about to combo and you dont have a way to stop it, going into the "go off" turn is recommended.

"going off" Show

Going off is split into 2 phases: Cycling the deck and Establishing the lock.

Cycling the deck:

• Don't tap any more mana than you need to, and focus on tapping enchanted lands first and hold off on estrid until you cant cast anymore without using her +.
• Focus on drawing as many cards as you can, this can mean using oblivion rings on useless stuff, but it is worth it. be efficient
• be wary of decking yourself, it can sometimes happen with 3 or 4 enchantresses, Abundance prevents you from EVER dying to no cards in library, even if you have 0 cards left.
• be careful with your mana colors, white is the easiest color to mass produce with Serra's Sanctum and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx so it is the best color to spend on generic mana costs. but it is still a balancing game, If I have 5 and 3 and go to cast Sphere of Safety I generally will use 4/3 and 1/2 to cast, so I still have mana of both colors left over.

Establishing the lock:

• there are 3 main locks in this deck to lock down the game:
• Words of Wind : with a lot of mana floating, play a cheap enchantment, pay 1 for words of wind, and bounce another cheap enchantment and repeat the cycle. (i.e. cast Authority of the Consuls , pay 1 for words, return Land Tax . then play Land Tax , pay 1 for words, return authority to your hand) Try maintain this loop until everyone else has their whole board (including lands) in their hands.
• Solemnity + Decree of Silence : this combo just straight up makes it so opponents have every spell countered, there is no real trick to this like words of wind. the only neat thing you can try to do is use Sterling Grove to tutor Decree of Silence to top then ult estrid to put decree straight into play
• Enchanted Evening + Cleansing Meditation : enchanted evening is natural to play, it boosts Serra's Sanctum , Sphere of Safety and makes mass enchantment removal so brutal, it heavily deters anyone from using anything other than a Bane of Progress . cleansing meditation is the tricksy part of this combo, getting threshold usually happens naturally but if someone is Bojuka Bog ing you or something you'll need to fill it yourself on the go off turn. Faith Healer is the easy card for hitting threshold, otherwise casting a Supreme Verdict or Slaughter the Strong usually do the job. ulting estrid also usually hits 3-4 nonenchantments.

Some neat Synergy in the list:

• Abundance + Sylvan Library
• Eidolon of Blossoms + Enchanted Evening + Sigil of the Empty Throne
• slaughter of the weak strong considering the total power of the whole deck is only 11.
• Mana Reflection + Serra's Sanctum / Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx , reflection truly doubles, unlike every similar enchantment, I've had serra's generate 50 mana before because of that
• Mana Reflection + Wooded Bastion / Mystic Gate / Flooded Grove , Pay 1 mana to get 4 back
• Mana Reflection + Copy Enchantment / Estrid's Invocation , they are cumulative, so 2x mana reflection is 4x mana
• Solemnity + Elephant Grass / Mystic Remora , no cumulative upkeep
• Wargate , = 0 lets you tutor Serra's Sanctum into play untapped for only 3 mana
• Mana Bloom , = 0 kinda like Phyrexian Arena as long as you have an enchantress, can also color fix 1 mana.

Other Fun Enchantress Cards/Combos

• Opalescence / Starfield of Nyx + Parallax Wave : infinite creature exile and infinite ETB triggers. wave has the old o-ring template, and with it being a creature it can target itself, Fun stuff.
• Gossamer Chains is the bastard love child of Flickering Ward and Maze of Ith (Note you have to have a target to activate the ability, so it doesn't function as a second Flickering Ward unless you have a Leyline of Anticipation or similar effect. )
• Cloud Cover can function similar to Privileged Position , actually not as bad as it looks, I do run it in my IRL list due to the price of Greater Auramancy
• Skybind is extremely flexible, you can use it on opponents lands to turn off countermagic for example. or on your own lands to "untap" them, I run this in non-estrid enchantress for that reason. but estrid has too many enchanted lands to run it. also a good way to make friends by blinking someone's Wood Elves or the like.
• Auratog / Thaumatog function as Faith Healer copies 2/3, I haven't wanted more than one copy myself, my oblivion rings dont get removed easily as is, and the other uses are niche enough that one is sufficient.
• Rancor + Enchantment sac outlet: basically Whip Silk with 0 to return it, is harder to mass produce than but still alright.
• Aegis of Honor is good if you have a storm player that kills with Tendrils of Agony or Ignite Memories , or some other deck that kills with instant sorceries rather than Guttersnipe or Sentinel Tower . super niche.
• Sacred Ground is anti-stax tech
• Spiritual Focus is anti-discard tech
• Dovescape is similar to the Solemnity + Decree of Silence lock, and is what I used before solemnity was printed, much less effective but much more fair. also 1 card versus 2.
• Vernal Equinox / Leyline of Anticipation / Vedalken Orrery are ways to flash enchantments
• Conviction / Whip Silk / Shimmering Wings are alternate Flickering Ward s also cheaper dollar wise.
• Energy Field + Rest in Peace / Wheel of Sun and Moon works as a second Solitary Confinement but much weaker.
• Heliod, God of the Sun , Ajani's Chosen , Monastery Mentor , Sacred Mesa are alternate token producers
• Remove Enchantments : to simplify the ridiculous text here it basically says "return all enchantments you control to your hand and destroy all enchantments attached to attacking creatures" (worth noting it will destroy auras you own attached to permanents you don't control). its niche as hell, but it is a 1 mana response to Merciless Eviction
• Seal of Cleansing , Seal of Primordium , Seal of Removal ; not a fan of the seals, but I know plenty of people love the Naturalize seals at least.
• Energy Flux can easily be even more brutal than Stony Silence
• Chamber of Manipulation , Squirrel Nest , Nylea's Presence are interesting with estrid.
• Gift of Paradise , New Horizons , Sheltered Aerie , Elvish Guidance , are other enrampments I dont run
• Martyr's Bond + Enchanted Evening + Faith Healer ; you can start making people sac anything, even their lands.
• Holistic Wisdom is one of the best repeatable ways to return enchantments from grave to hand, but the cost is steep. I would run it before Auramancer or Hanna, Ship's Navigator , but I would still only run it if Naturalize effects are running rampant in your meta.
• City of Solitude is basically "spells cant be countered"
• Concordant Crossroads lets the tokens have haste to swing out, not bad, just too niche because it is symmetrical.
• Mirri's Guile is a shitty Sylvan Library but can act as a second copy.
• Soul Snare can act as a shitty enchantment version of Swords to Plowshares or you can see it as a massively improved Divine Verdict .
• Cloud Key can work as Herald of the Pantheon #2
• Semblance Anvil can work as a mega Cloud Key at a cost.
• Sylvan Scrying , Hour of Promise , Tempt with Discovery , Weathered Wayfarer , Reap and Sow , Expedition Map are other ways to fetch Serra's Sanctum
• Sungrass Prairie / Skycloud Expanse + Mana Reflection = Pay 1 get 4.

Top Ranked	Achieved #16 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 66 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.74
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Clue, Mask, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	EDH, Derevi's Inspiration, Estrid Enchantress, Commander Decks, Deck Tech, Enchantress Decks, Enchantress's, Interesting Commander Decks, deck that I like, decks i like