Tuvasa's Enchantresses - Primer

Commander / EDH Combo Enchantment GWU (Bant) Infinite Combo Pillow Fort Primer

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Lands (36)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Forest
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x High Market
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 2x Island
• 1x Kor Haven
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 2x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Hate (4)

• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Stony Silence
• 1x Telepathy
• 1x Torpor Orb

Card draw/filtering (14)

• 1x Abundance
• 1x Argothian Enchantress
• 1x Attunement
• 1x Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1x Enchantress's Presence
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Satyr Enchanter
• 1x Setessan Champion
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Sythis, Harvest's Hand
• 1x Verduran Enchantress

Removals (8)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Wrath of God

Wincons (8)

• 1x Decree of Silence
• 1x Enchanted Evening
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Opalescence
• 1x Parallax Wave
• 1x Solemnity
• 1x Words of Wind

Counterspells (4)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Decree of Silence
• 1x Swan Song

Recursion (4)

• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Replenish
• 1x Starfield of Nyx

Commander (1)

Ramp/Fix (10)

• 1x Abundant Growth
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Sanctum Weaver
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Tutors (8)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Plea for Guidance
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Wargate

Pillowfort (5)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Solitary Confinement
• 1x Sphere of Safety

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Other (10)

• 1x Aura Thief
• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Calix, Destiny's Hand
• 1x Calix, Guided by Fate
• 1x Dress Down
• 1x Elephant Grass
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Mirrormade

Hate (1)

• 1x City of Solitude

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Latest iteration of Bant Enchantress. You will like this deck if:

• you like enchantments (but not so much auras)
• you like drawing cards, lots of cards
• you like comboing off in awkward ways

You’ll hate it, however, if:

• you hate enchantments (duh!)
• you love playing lots of creatures
• you love playing aggressive and all-in decks
• you don’t like winning through the boardstate or combo out

Please find below a mini-primer that eviscerates the main sections of the deck and their purpose. Feel free to comment and upvote!

The Ramp

Every deck with green needs some form of ramp to push quickly into mid game. The main source of ramp here is of course enchantments, mostly in form of land auras, but also as 1-drop all-stars such as Carpet of Flowers. Amongst lands, Serra's Sanctum in the late game can create absurd amounts of mana.

Enchantments Show

• Abundant Growth
• Wild Growth
• Utopia Sprawl
• Fertile Ground
• Burgeoning
• Carpet of Flowers
• Exploration
• Mirari's Wake
• Sanctum Weaver

Non-enchantments: Show

• Serra's Sanctum
• Sol Ring

The Draw

Drawing cards is crucial for winning the game and as such we feature the Enchantress package, that lets us draw a card whenever we play an enchantment. The strong point is that we get to draw even if the spell is countered (with two exceptions being Eidolon of Blossoms, which however cantrips itself, and Setessan Champion).

Enchantresses Show

• Tuvasa the Sunlit
• Argothian Enchantress
• Enchantress's Presence
• Verduran Enchantress
• Mesa Enchantress
• Satyr Enchanter
• Sythis, Harvest's Hand
• Setessan Champion
• Eidolon of Blossoms

Apart from that, we also feature powerful draw engines such as Rhystic Study and Sylvan Library, which also happen to be enchantments. While not giving direct card avantage unless we have an enchantress piece in play, Abundance and Attunement help us with filtering draws.

Non-enchantresses Show

• Sylvan Library
• Rhystic Study
• Mystic Remora
• Abundance
• Attunement
• Calix, Destiny's Hand

The Hate

Besides ramping and drawing cards, we also need to survive on the battlefield, and that's the moment our hate and disruption package comes into play to help us lock our opponents.

Enchantment-based Hate Show

• Stony Silence: since the only artifact with an activated ability we run is Sol Ring, this hoses mostly our opponents.
• Rest in Peace: kind of a non-bo with our recursion pieces, but crucial to fight decks that abuse graveyard strategies.
• Darksteel Mutation
• Song of the Dryads
• Telepathy

Naturally, we want to play removal in form of enchantments, but we also need instant-speed answers to the combos of other players, both in form of spot-removals and counterspells. Wraths are also included if the board state goes out of hand.

Wraths, Instant removals and others Show

• Path to Exile
• Swords to Plowshares
• Supreme Verdict
• Austere Command
• Wrath of God
• Cyclonic Rift
• Torpor Orb

Counterspells Show

• Counterspell
• Arcane Denial
• Swan Song
• Decree of Silence

The Pillow

If we understand that proactively disrupting our opponents is not the way to go, maybe it's time to switch to our pillowfort package, consisting of cards that slow down the game, prevent our opponents to attack and protect us.

Pillowfort Show

• Blind Obedience
• Propaganda
• Collective Restraint
• Sphere of Safety
• Solitary Confinement

The Tutors

What is a commander deck without a bunch of powerful tutors to grab answers and win-conditions? This is no exception, and the package of tutors included, mostly in form of instants/sorceries with the only exceptions being Sterling Grove and Academy Rector, is the basis for any enchantment-fueled deck.

Tutors Show

• Sterling Grove
• Academy Rector
• Enlightened Tutor
• Idyllic Tutor
• Plea for Guidance
• Mystical Tutor
• Wargate
• Crop Rotation

The Utilities

Here we feature a bunch of cards that help us doing particular things, mainly recursion of our precious enchantments, but also singular effects incorporated into lands such as Reliquary Tower and High Market.

Recursion cards Show

• Replenish
• Open the Vaults
• Starfield of Nyx
• Otawara, Soaring City
• Hall of Heliod's Generosity

Utility Lands Show

• Reliquary Tower
• Kor Haven
• High Market
• Alchemist's Refuge

The Win Conditions

Mostly consisting of awkward combinations between enchantments, some of the win-conditions can be pulled off quite easily thanks to the number of tutors in the deck, albeit being vulnerable to counter-magic:

Combos Show

• Decree of Silence + Solemnity : All of our opponents' spells are countered, as solemnity prevents counters on Decree of Silence. Better results if preceded by a wrath effect such as Austere Command.
• Enchanted Evening + Opalescence + Mirari's Wake: Since all permanents are enchantments, Opalescence animates all the lands on the battlefield, which have cmc=0, thus they die. If we have Mirari's Wake in play, our lands get +1/+1 and survive.
• Opalescence/Starfield of Nyx + Parallax Wave (I currently don't play it but you can add Oblivion Ring to the mix): Parallax Wave is a creature thanks to Opalescence or Starfield, so in response to the ability activation we exile Parallax itself, thus exiling creatures forever. Add Oblivion Ring to the mix to exile non-land permanents too [now temporarily removed].
• Words of Wind + Abundant Growth or Eidolon of Blossoms + any 1-drop enchantment: We substitute the draw from Abundant or Eidolon's trigger and bounce back the 1-drop enchantment, while opponents' bounce back a permanent. More mana equals more bounces.
• Omniscience + Attunement + a piece of enchantress other than Tuvasa the Sunlit: We cycle through our deck via Attunement, looking for one of the other win conditions.

If something with the wincons above goes wrong, we can try the beatdown route with the enchantments below via 4/4 angels, or via animated enchantments thanks to Opalescence/Starfield of Nyx. If we happen to have a full board, we can even go voltron with our commander, protecting her with counterspells.

Beatdown Show

• Luminarch Ascension
• Tuvasa the Sunlit

Also, if we manage to cheat Omniscience with Academy Rector or Serra's Sanctum and we happen to have some enchantresses on the battlefield, we simply win by sheer resource advantage.

Notable Synergies and non-bos

As much as the deck is quite linear, beyond the basic enchantress interactions (i.e. multiple card draw) there are some synergies and in particular non-synergies that I would like to list and that the pilot needs to know beforehand to play around them.

Synergies Show

• Sylvan Library and Abundance let you draw three cards per turn, as Abundance replaces the draw instances of Sylvan Library.
• Serra's Sanctum and Luminarch Ascension make up for a great pair with a board full of enchantments.
• Solemnity + Mystic Remora: age counters do not get put on Remora so you don't have to pay for cumulative upkeep.

Non-bos: Show

• Rest in Peace plus any recursion piece (Starfield of Nyx, Replenish, Open the Vaults) or Academy Rector
• City of Solitude plus counterspells. Although they are a few, sometimes this will happen.
• Stony Silence plus Sol Ring.
• Solemnity and Luminarch Ascension because, you know, counters.

Flexible Slots

Not every card in the list is functional or optimal for some metagames. Below you can find a list of the flexible cards of the deck that, despite being very powerful against almost every deck, you can substitute with meta-specific cards and answers. I also added some cards that can be sacrificed either for more ramp or more answers.

Cards Show

• Rest in Peace
• Stony Silence
• Torpor Orb
• Telepathy

Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Key combos	Enchanted Evening + Opalescence Decree of Silence + Solemnity
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 66 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.86
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Bird 2/2 U
Folders	Enchantress, Commander, Bantchantress, Major investments, Main Decks