Zombie Enchantress

Pioneer BG (Golgari) Budget Enchantment Midrange

rotimislaw

Enchantment (19)

• 4x Mogis's Favor
• 4x Mire's Grasp
• 2x Demonic Embrace
• 4x The First Iroan Games
• 3x Tymaret Calls the Dead
• 2x Mantle of the Wolf

Creature (18)

• 4x Hateful Eidolon
• 4x Aphemia, the Cacophony
• 2x Destiny Spinner
• 4x Setessan Champion
• 3x Gemrazer
• 1x Polukranos, Unchained

Land (23)

• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 2x Fabled Passage
• 7x Forest
• 10x Swamp
• 3x Temple of Malady

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Sideboard

Artifact (7)

• 3x Soul-Guide Lantern
• 4x Damping Sphere

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Agonizing Remorse

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Dead Weight

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (8)

• 4x Duress
• 4x Pelakka Predation  ^Flip

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Elspeth's Nightmare

Creature (4)

• 4x Brain Maggot

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Whoa. This came to my mind at once and I'm quite curious how it would work.

The idea was to combine Setessan Champion and Aphemia, the Cacophony for payoff. Meaning: put as much worthy enchantments on table as possible to buff the first, draw card and create a 2/2 Zombie once you exile wasted enchantment for additional value!

As additional card draw serve The First Iroan Games and Hateful Eidolon. The second might be surprising, but most of our removal and boost are Auras. Thus, no matter if we remove other player creatures with Dead Weight or Mire's Grasp or some of our enhanced creature with Mantle of the Wolf gets rid off, we draw cards (and create 2x 2/2 Wolf creatures!).

Win-cons

• Aphemia, the Cacophony + Tymaret Calls the Dead produce tokens to flood the enemy

• Setessan Champion + Mantle of the Wolf if the game gets longer, these two should be able to grow enough for final push

• Destiny Spinner + lots of enchantments to create a big creature each turn and at the same time apply constant pressure

Matchups

• Against aggro, there's some lifegain, token generation and plenty of targeted removal. Should be enough to hold the enemy before Setessan Champion grows enough or our boardstate is sufficient number of Zombies thanks to Aphemia, the Cacophony

• Midrange - would be tough. With some luck, our draw engine of Hateful Eidolon, Setessan Champion and The First Iroan Games would be enough to outvalue our enemy

• For Combo, there are some tricks in the sideboard. Besides, I hope that Destiny Spinner shield with the fact that the deck is somehow off-meta (tell me who prepares for 20+ enchantments in the deck?) would make the trick

• Against Control - our snowball should be secured provided Destiny Spinner enters the battlefield early. If not, hopefully the slow pace of the matchup will play for us and most of the Sagas will play full. Anyways, either constant pings and zombies from Aphemia, the Cacophony or buffed up Setessan Champion / Mantle of the Wolf should cross the line.

Sideboard

• Agonizing Remorse against Combo to remove their key pieces

• Mogis's Favor for some aggro (additional removal x/-1 counts!), but mostly for control matchups to increase amount of damage dealt each turn

• Setessan Training for control to break through their defenses with Trample and not fall behind in cards

• 2x staples for other kind of decks: Murderous Rider for planeswalker removal and Soul-Guide Lantern to exile other players graveyard

Please suggest some improvements. I'd also appreciate your +1s if you'd give this deck a try!

Top Ranked	Achieved #2 position in Standard Budget 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Standard Midrange 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Pioneer legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 0 Rares 6 - 11 Uncommons 8 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.46
Tokens	Gold, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Wolf 2/2 G, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	motivation!!!, new standard decks, Decks I have cards for