Estrid, the landwalker

Commander / EDH Aura Hexproof Competitive Enchantment GWU (Bant) Ramp

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Enchantment (28)

• 1x Animal Boneyard
• 1x Attunement
• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Chamber of Manipulation
• 1x Dawn's Reflection
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Drake Haven
• 1x Enchantress's Presence
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Flickering Ward
• 1x Gift of Paradise
• 1x Island Sanctuary
• 1x Market Festival
• 1x Myth Unbound
• 1x Oath of Teferi
• 1x Octopus Umbra
• 1x Overgrowth
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Righteous Authority
• 1x Shimmering Wings
• 1x Sigil of the Empty Throne
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Sunken Field
• 1x Verdant Haven
• 1x Weirding Wood
• 1x Whip Silk
• 1x Wild Growth

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Phyrexian Rebirth
• 1x Tragic Arrogance
• 1x Winds of Rath

Creature (23)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Aegis of the Gods
• 1x Ajani's Chosen
• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Archetype of Imagination
• 1x Ascended Lawmage
• 1x Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Fleecemane Lion
• 1x Herald of the Pantheon
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Nylea's Colossus
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sagu Mauler
• 1x Satyr Enchanter
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Siege Behemoth
• 1x Silhana Ledgewalker
• 1x Troll Ascetic
• 1x Tuvasa the Sunlit
• 1x Verduran Enchantress
• 1x Whitewater Naiads

Instant (6)

• 1x Abolish
• 1x Bant Charm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Foil
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Mana Drain

Artifact (1)

• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Land (38)

• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 8x Forest
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 7x Island
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 5x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tranquil Thicket

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Sideboard

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Cleansing Meditation

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Banishing Light
• 1x Dream Halls
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Lignify
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Soul Snare
• 1x Utopia Sprawl

Instant (2)

• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Heroic Intervention

Artifact (1)

• 1x The Chain Veil

Creature (2)

• 1x Carnage Tyrant
• 1x Kor Spiritdancer

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Estrid, the Masked as a commander, I decided to focus mostly on the +2 ability, which is : enchanted permanent you control. The deck focus mostly on enchanted lands, instead of creatures, cause they are usually safer to enchant ( Wrath of God effect doesn't affect our investment this way). Also, most of the creature we have give or have a certain degree of protection (hexproof).

Goal : Ramp + draw till you get an hexproof unblockable (or evasive) beater.

Ramp

To ramp (and fix), we use a lot of enchant land that makes our lands produce more mana. ( Dawn's Reflection , Fertile Ground , Gift of Paradise , Market Festival , Verdant Haven , Weirding Wood , Wild Growth ). The All-Star of this category would be Overgrowth , that makes a land produce 3 mana everytime we tap it for mana.

Other ramp : Sol Ring (for obvious reason). Kiora's Follower and Fatestitcher can, untap one of your land (as well as taping stuff if you need to, for Fatestitcher ). Herald of the Pantheon is a way to play your enchantment (1/3 of the deck) for less. Bounce lands are quite usefull as well, cause of the untap from Estrid.

Draw

Enchantress! You want as much as you can : Enchantress's Presence , Eidolon of Blossoms , Mesa Enchantress , Satyr Enchanter , Tuvasa the Sunlit , Verduran Enchantress . Other option I don't own : Kor Spiritdancer and Argothian Enchantress .

Those, alone, are probably enough, but I also add : Attunement , Righteous Authority (not really used for the draw, but hey.. still doing it), Weirding Wood gives us a Clue, Horizon Canopy ?

There's also a cycle of enchantment that you can cast for 1 colored mana, and return it back to your hand for another colored mana. With only 1 enchantress in play, you are able to draw a card for 2 mana, and you can repeat that process as much as you have mana. Whip Silk , Shimmering Wings and Flickering Ward . Beside Whip Silk that is meh, the two others can make one of your creature evasive or can protect it.

Creatures and unblockable

As said at the beggin, there's a good amount of hexproof creatures. You want them to stick to the board, boost them and make them unblockable. First : what are those creatures? Ascended Lawmage , Sagu Mauler , Siege Behemoth , Silhana Ledgewalker , Troll Ascetic and Fleecemane Lion that will have it eventually. There's a range from 1/1 to 6/6, each of them with their own ability and mechanic. Ajani's Chosen and Sigil of the Empty Throne will produce creatures everytime you play an enchantment. Always good as defence and offence.

Since most of the creatures are not super big, there's some enchantment that will help : Nylea's Colossus , Righteous Authority , Octopus Umbra , Bear Umbra and Rancor . The Colossus is amazing if you have the Cycle of aura that can goes back to your hand. The others are pumping.

As evasion, there's flying, trample and Siege Behemoth that just ignore blockers. Other cards that gives evasion : Archetype of Imagination , Whitewater Naiads , Rogue's Passage , Shimmering Wings , Flickering Ward and Rancor .

Protection

You draw a lot and ramp, so people might be scared of you, and want to attack you. Let's talk how to protec your strategy. The second ability of Estrid, the Masked gives totem armor to any of your permanent, and now they are enchanted and can be untap with the first ability. I don't think this ability will be the best, but it's an option. There's the 2 umbra that are in the deck too ( Bear Umbra and Octopus Umbra ). Flickering Ward , that we just see give protection to a creature.

Island Sanctuary and Sphere of Safety prevent people to attack you. You usually have a lot of draw, so the "downside" of the Sanctuary is not relevant. You also have a lot of enchantments that makes tax of the Sphere quite important.

Aegis of the Gods , Archetype of Endurance and Shalai, Voice of Plenty : give you, your creatures and/or planeswalker hexproof. Just great in general. Also, Aegis and the archetype are enchantments themselves.

Removal/Board wipe

• Counter spell : The options for counter spells are diverse in commander. I happen to have Mana Drain .. so I use it. This deck can make a good use of Forbid , Foil (and Force of Will ?.. If you have the budget). You don't mind about discarding cards in your hand, cause you gonna draw so many. Bant Charm offer a large variety of removal, including counter instant spell. Sunken Field is a unique enchant land, that synergize really well in this deck.

• Acidic Slime , Reclamation Sage , Bant Charm : Just some interresting target removal that can be use in the deck. Those can be replace by other stuff, depending of the meta and what you prefer/have. Oblivion Ring , Banishing Light , etc are really good here. (Probably better option, tbh)

• Board wipe : Phyrexian Rebirth , Tragic Arrogance , Winds of Rath and Cyclonic Rift . They don't affect you much (Rift and Winds of Rath) or at least you still will have something on your side after (Rebirth and Arrogance). Here again, you can play other stuff, like Wrath of God , Bane of Progress or whatever you like.

• Chamber of Manipulation : You don't mind about discarding cards. You can steal a creature for a turn (removing a blocker, getting another attacker, etc). Also, it's an enchant land, so you can untap with Estrid and do it again. It's so good, combine with Animal Boneyard . You steal, sac, +2 estrid, repeat. You gain life in the process. The boneyard is pretty much the only sac outlet in the deck and is an enchantment, so it's not a dead card on itself.

• Like Foil , Abolish use our draw and cards in hand as a ressource, instead of mana. Since you discard a lot with those, the clean up phase, Attunement and some other discard effect, Drake Haven has an interresting place here. You usually have a lot of mana, so discarding stuff will also produce 2/2 flyers.

Other stuff (Gravy)

What other cards that are just good with the Estrid?

• Doubling Season : Not needed, but can help in general with the few token producer and just good with a planeswalker commander (so does Forge of Heroes ).

• Estrid's Invocation : Can copy any of your enchantment and you can choose another one at your upkeep.

• Myth Unbound : You want Estrid out, this reduce the commander tax. Combine with Estrid's Invocation , you have no tax.

• Oath of Teferi : Great! You can +2 twice per turn? Let's say you have 4 lands, all enchanted with nothing that produced mana (worse scenario) : you have 12 mana in your mana pool. If they all can produced another mana if tapped, it's 24. You draw a lot of cards, right? Well, you have 24 mana to spend on everything you want.

This deck can be upgraded with Earthcraft , Heroic Intervention , Dream Halls , Force of Will , etc. I would take off Doubling Season , since it's not really relevant, as well as Sigil of the Empty Throne and Ajani's Chosen . If you go competitive, probably that Animal Boneyard and Chamber of Manipulation are not the best too.

I've made a cheaper version of this deck too : more or less 50$

Hope you appreciate my approach with this commander. It's not tune to be the most competitive, but I'm sure it can be quite good. There's more options in the "maybe" category.

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Feel free to make suggestion, feedback and/or (+1). Thx

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 24 - 1 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.50
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Cat 2/2 W, Clue, Drake 2/2 U, Mask, Morph 2/2 C, Phyrexian Horror X/X C
Folders	Budget