Sanctum Stompy

Canadian Highlander GW (Selesnya)

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Lands (28)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Karakas
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Savannah
• 7x Snow-Covered Forest
• 4x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Tutors & Card Advantage (6)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Once Upon a Time

Disruptive Creatures (4)

• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Gaddock Teeg
• 1x Spirit of the Labyrinth
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar

Protection & Pump (3)

• 1x Berserk
• 1x Blossoming Defense
• 1x Vines of Vastwood

Enchantment Synergy (15)

• 1x Danitha Capashen, Paragon
• 1x Evershrike
• 1x Fabled Hero
• 1x Fleecemane Lion
• 1x Herald of the Pantheon
• 1x Hero of Iroas
• 1x Kor Spiritdancer
• 1x Managorger Hydra
• 1x Paladin en-Vec
• 1x Replenish
• 1x Sigarda, Host of Herons
• 1x Silverblade Paladin
• 1x Starfield Mystic
• 1x Thrun, the Last Troll
• 1x Witchstalker

Auras (9)

• 1x Angelic Destiny
• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Boar Umbra
• 1x Ethereal Armor
• 1x Felidar Umbra
• 1x Hyena Umbra
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Snake Umbra
• 1x Spider Umbra

Removal (5)

• 1x Cast Out
• 1x Dromoka's Command
• 1x On Thin Ice
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Utility Creatures (2)

• 1x Knight of Autumn
• 1x Knight of the Reliquary

Enchantment Creatures (12)

• 1x Aegis of the Gods
• 1x Archetype of Courage
• 1x Boon Satyr
• 1x Celestial Archon
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1x Eidolon of Countless Battles
• 1x Ghostblade Eidolon
• 1x History of Benalia
• 1x Hopeful Eidolon
• 1x Leafcrown Dryad
• 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt

Ramp (12)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Paradise Druid
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Utility Lands (4)

• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Wasteland

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Serra's Sanctum is quite the powerful card, but it only sees play in the famously slow Enchantress. Sanctum Stompy is my attempt to utilize Serra's Sanctum in an aggressive strategy similar to Medium Red or Workshop Aggro decks.

General Strategy

With this deck, you are looking to use one-mana ramp cards like Arbor Elf or Utopia Sprawl to accelerate into haymaker three & four mana cards like Fabled Hero , Knight of the Reliquary , or Eidolon of Countless Battles . You then use totem armors and protection spells to ward off removal while you deploy additional threats.

Don't discount cards like Hero of Iroas , Herald of the Pantheon , or Danitha Capashen, Paragon - the fact that they make your enchantments cheaper while providing early pressure is key. A lot of your enchantment creatures have bestow, so these creatures are great for loading up with auras.

Card Choices

Most of the cards in the deck were chosen for their synergy with enchantments, or to maximize using Serra's Sanctum . I tried to make sure the overall quality of each card is relatively high - we're aiming for a few high-quality threats & auras, rather than a critical mass strategy like Bogles. That said, the power level among the enchantment creatures is a little lower than I'd prefer. This is where future sets will hopefully help - a return to Theros would do this deck wonders. Sanctum Stompy is probably a deck that could also use Gaea's Cradle to replace Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx . Also, play a Savannah if you own one.

Other Notes

I'm trying to see if a pure GW version of the deck is competitive before messing around with adding other colors. It might end up that splashing blue or black is correct, but the mana is already not ideal in just GW.

Bant would add Kiora's Follower & Minamo, School at Water's Edge as additional untappers for Serra's Sanctum & Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx , Wargate as an additional tutor, and Kestia, the Cultivator as another powerhouse enchantment creature. Blue would also add the potential for counterspells if that felt necessary to be competitive.

Abzan would add a few more enchantment creatures to choose from in Brain Maggot , Nighthowler , and Doomwake Giant , as well as Daxos the Returned as a payoff for playing so many enchantments and a sink for Serra's Sanctum mana. Black also gives access to hand attack.

Points Spread

• Enlightened Tutor - 1
• Sol Ring - 3

Mana acceleration is key to this deck. If you have them, you should replace a Snow-Covered Forest & a Snow-Covered Plains with a Mox Emerald & a Mox Pearl , bringing the points to 10.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	UBR
Card Score	4 / 10
Legality	This deck is Canadian Highlander legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.29
Tokens	Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance