[EDH] Anikthea Enchantress Prison [WIP]

Commander / EDH* BGW (Abzan, Junk) Enchantment Prison

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Lands (30)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 2x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Champions
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Recursion (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Athreos, God of Passage
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Gloomshrieker
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Regrowth

Stax (1)

• 1x Aura of Silence

Removal (13)

• 1x Agent of Erebos
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Damn
• 1x Despark
• 1x Doomwake Giant
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x On Thin Ice
• 1x Parallax Wave
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Prison (9)

• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Choke
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Elephant Grass
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Koskun Falls
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Torpor Orb

Protection (9)

• 1x Aegis of the Gods
• 1x Alseid of Life's Bounty
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Greater Auramancy
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Veil of Summer

Tutors (5)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Commander (1)

Mana Advantage (12)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Deathcap Cultivator
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Sanctum Weaver
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Card Advantage (7)

• 1x Call of the Ring
• 1x Enchantress's Presence
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Spirited Companion
• 1x Sythis, Harvest's Hand
• 1x Verduran Enchantress

Anthems (6)

• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Grim Guardian
• 1x Living Plane
• 1x Opalescence
• 1x Underworld Coinsmith

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Other (1)

• 1x The Meathook Massacre

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This is my attempt at building around Anikthea, Hand of Erebos. I think she's moderately interesting as a commander, and honestly the main reason I want to brew/build her is because her color identity - Abzan. Mainly, I want to make an Abzan enchantment deck for one reason and one reason only: Doomwake Giant. Doomwake Giant is one of my favorite cards in Magic and one of the first cards I really remember playing with. The first deck I had a lot of success with in Magic was a Green/Black Enchantment deck from the Theros/Khans standard. Sythis, Harvest's Hand is definitely a better enchantment-based deck, but she's sadly only Green/White. As such, this is an attempt at brewing an prison-esque enchantment-based deck in an Abzan deck.

The deck is a work in progress. I really don't know how this is going to go, so let's just see what happens. I'll slowly be adding to this list overtime - I don't want to rush into it for once and to be honest I'm not that motivated to work on Magic stuff at the moment.

I really do not like this deck as it is right now. Please do feel free to suggest stuff. As I said, this deck is a work in progress. If you do suggest stuff, please do keep to the prison theme of the deck. Keep in mind that I'm aiming this deck to be high-powered. Right now I'm trying to work on card draw and getting more prison cards, specifically black prison cards.

7/20/2023 UPDATE: I no longer really want to work on this deck because of the existence of Narsi, Fable Singer. She just strikes me as a lot more my playstyle and just in general seems a lot more interesting. If I do end up building an abzan enchantment deck she'd probably be the commander. However, even then I probably wouldn't put a single saga in the deck and instead I'd just build it combo with Opalescence and outlets like Phyrexian Altar.

Date added	9 months
Last updated	3 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.31
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, The Ring, The Ring Tempts You
Folders	Astro's Brews