[Deck] Solitaire (Enchantress)

[pedropohren]

I think with Archon vs. Sigil, you have to decide what you're going to encounter more often: Swords to Plowshares or Force of Vigor. Prismatic Ending can easily cover 0-3 CMC. The 4c control decks can get up to 4 CMC, but 5 (Sigil) is usually safe. If you face Death and Taxes more frequently, then Sigil still is more likely to survive (Skyclave Apparition covers 0-4).

Archon and Sigil serve different purposes, though. Lifelink is actively helpful. I see Archon as more of a value card than a finisher. Let us know how it goes.

Probably keeping the Archons/Sigils on the side, acting as sort of a transformational sideboard feature? Think it cuts.

The only thing of this list i don't feel good about is it has no Presences. Sythis is a very good card for Enchantress, but not "cuts-Presence-entirely-from-the-list-and-yet-as-a-4-of" levels of good. It's easier to tutor for, but way easier to interact with. Enchantress depends on the Enchantress effects, if the opponent can interact with them so easily it completely disrupts the strategy. Some choices on this list reflect such stance. Mana auras are one of the best draws if you have 2-3 Enchantresses out. You get to have a way to draw more cards and keep your mana up. Honestly, with 2-3 Enchantress Effects out, any enchantment is a good draw.

[pedropohren]

4 Argothian Enchantress
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
3 Destiny Spinner
1 Sythis, Harvest's Hand
1 Dryad Arbor
4 Enchantress's Presence
3 Mirri's Guile
1 Sylvan Library
3 Exploration
4 Utopia Sprawl
4 Wild Growth
3 Sterling Grove
2 Solitary Confinement
4 Elephant Grass
1 Cast Out
1 Crop Rotation
3 Serra's Sanctum
6 Forest
4 Windswept Heath
1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
1 Karakas
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Savannah
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
2 Green Sun's Zenith

1 Doomwake Giant
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Stony Silence
2 Choke
2 Cast Out
3 Abrupt Decay
2 Seeds of Innocence

Current list, got the cards on order. Few alterations from my previous list on the maindeck; sideboard has been completely revamped, to deal better with the local meta (a few 8-casts and graveyard-based decks).

[Reeplcheep]

Why crop over the more traditional living wish? Especially now that boseiju is a thing.

[pedropohren]

Why crop over the more traditional living wish? Especially now that boseiju is a thing.

This is actually one of the reasons for which i personally don't like wishboarding on Enchantress: considering the engine of the deck is built towards draws, feels to me like wishboarding deviates from the deck's purpose and makes it less synergical and less reliable - most lists i've seen running Living Wish to seek for the deck's silver bullets and/or wincons posed as better versions of Enchantress but ended up as worse versions of Maverick.

And besides, if you're drawing into 15-25 cards a turn just to find a spell that will then let you find your wincon, why not drawing directly into your wincon?

[Reeplcheep]

This is actually one of the reasons for which i personally don't like wishboarding on Enchantress: considering the engine of the deck is built towards draws, feels to me like wishboarding deviates from the deck's purpose and makes it less synergical and less reliable - most lists i've seen running Living Wish to seek for the deck's silver bullets and/or wincons posed as better versions of Enchantress but ended up as worse versions of Maverick.

And besides, if you're drawing into 15-25 cards a turn just to find a spell that will then let you find your wincon, why not drawing directly into your wincon?

In that case why aren't we just running 4 of the best land (sanctum)

[pedropohren]

In that case why aren't we just running 4 of the best land (sanctum)

4 Sanctums will give you too many starting hands with it when you just needed a Forest or a fetchland. 2 would be too few copies since Exploration is in the deck and Wasteland is legal in the format. Three is the only number usable (from my experience).

[Reeplcheep]

4 Sanctums will give you too many starting hands with it when you just needed a Forest or a fetchland. 2 would be too few copies since Exploration is in the deck and Wasteland is legal in the format. Three is the only number usable (from my experience).

Crop is not a green source either…

[pedropohren]

Crop is not a green source either…

It doesn't have to be; it's not what it's in the deck for;

[Reeplcheep]

It doesn't have to be; it's not what it's in the deck for;

My point is that if you feel the below:

This is actually one of the reasons for which i personally don't like wishboarding on Enchantress: considering the engine of the deck is built towards draws, feels to me like wishboarding deviates from the deck's purpose and makes it less synergical and less reliable

You should just run the best target instead of crop. You only have 1 crop and no way to find it. Crop also turns on your opponents’ countermagic in a deck that is mostly immune to it.

[pedropohren]

You should just run the best target instead of crop. You only have 1 crop and no way to find it. Crop also turns on your opponents’ countermagic in a deck that is mostly immune to it.

To that, i must agree with you. If i had the slots for it, i'd run more than one copy (and if i could make it uncounterable without something like Veil of Summer). Because it is in the deck just to be that virtual extra copy of all the utility lands in the deck - especially Karakas in case of Griselbrands, Emrakuls and/or Marit Lages. I could, indeed, run a Forest in its place, or a second Boseiju; i just feel like it's not going to be in my hand all the time, but when it is, it will be useful.

But anyway, i still can take it off in the future if i end up finding out it doesn't pay off.