Solitary Confinement

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this unless you discard a card.

Skip your draw step.

You have shroud. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

legendofa on Shielded

5 days ago

Andramelech The plan here is to return Solitary Confinement to your hand on your upkeep with Umbilicus. The discard-or-sac ability will already be on the stack, but you don't have to sacrifice a card that's not there anymore. You get your draw step normally, then recast Confinement on your main phase, where it protects you until Umbilicus bounces it again.

Basically, you're ignoring Solitary Confinement's discard-or-sac, in return for a small window of vulnerability and paying {2}{W} every turn.

I don't know if this is any good, but that's what playtesting's for.

Andramalech on Shielded

5 days ago

legendofa help me understand how this functions, please? Do you fail to pay the upkeep cost from Umbilicus due to the effect of Solitary Confinement?

psionictemplar on New Falls

10 months ago

I just saw your comment after posting the last one, but to answer your question, no I don't think manamorphose is needed and would also be detrimental. Your fetchland mana base can easily handle all your mana requirements and now that I've looked at them again you could probably trim a copy of Arena. Try these overall suggestions next and get back to me. Cut: 4 ignoble 4 temur 1 arena Add: +4 shardless agent +3 brazen borrower +2 island.

Another sideboard change I might suggest is cutting the 3x force of vigor and replacing it with 3 Obsidian Charmaw. The reasoning being that you don't have many green cards for pitching and the main artifact/enchantment cards that might harm you the most (such as Solitary Confinement or Ensnaring Bridge) could be stopped with your counters. Charmaw also gives you a way to recast your breaching dragonstorm while being a hate card against eldrazi.

legendofa on Why Has WotC Stopped Printing …

10 months ago

My guess is that it's part of a general trend to encourage activity over inactivity. Something like Solitary Confinement and a good draw engine slows the game down pretty hard, and people will be reluctant to attack if they think their opponent's holding a pile of Fog, Darkness, Dawn Charm, and Ethereal Haze.

I like stall/turbofog/attrition-y decks, but they can occasionally devolve into both sides playing draw-go while staring at the board. If you're okay with that (and I generally am), there's no problem. But they've been working to encourage progress and interaction in games, so hard damage prevention, stax effects, and similar are being reduced. I don't think they'll go away completely; control is still one of the major archetypes.

SufferFromEDHD on Narset Spellforce

1 year ago

I think my suggestions added $10 haha. Last budget suggestions after looking thru my deck:

Solitary Confinement graveyard filler

Turbulent Dreams graveyard filler

These might be out of budget but they are really good

Dreamborn Muse fills both yards for Narset

Sword of Once and Future surveil and Narset style free spell slinging

DreadKhan on

1 year ago

I love fiddling with Zur, such a cool Commander!

Since it got reprinted I think Estrid's Invocation is worth a look, it's not only a combo piece, it's also capable of being fetched as a copy of All That Glitters. It's ability to change what it's copying each of your upkeeps means it can also wipe out a type of token with Detention Sphere. I think once you try out Invocation you'll be surprised how useful it can be.

I love using Luminarch Ascension in Zur lists, it's often a great play whenever you draw into it, and it's a good fetch if you can't be attacked (stuff like your Propaganda, Ghostly Prison, but also Solitary Confinement are all good ways to protect yourself, Solitary is protection plus a ton of upside, but you'll need a card draw source, fortunately Zur can find many!). Getting a 4/4 flyer for only 1W is insane value IMHO, so maybe Greater Auramancy to protect it? It's a TON cheaper than it used to be, and it's great with Copy Enchantment.

Goldberserkerdragon on Free Spell Tribal

1 year ago

Yeah the spawn is a menace lol. Overlooked. Craeter Dawnglade might be my favorite mono green creature. It coupled with something like Avacyn, Angel of Hope and/or Ghostly Prison, Solitary Confinement, etc is wild ;)

K4nkato on Need Help With A Solitary …

1 year ago

I’m looking to build a rather complex control / prison deck that assembles a Lantern of Insight control lock while turtling behind Solitary Confinement. I was wondering if there are any commanders / lists people would recommend.