Quote Originally Posted by Fjaulnir View Post
Sooo, like all other threads on the forum right now probably , time to think about how the Top ban affects Enchantress:



To be honest I'm very partial about the ban in regards to Enchantress. It always felt like one of our better matchups if the deck was constructed properly, and Enchantress was one of the few decks I enjoyed playing against Miracles with.

Additionally, it may mean an increase in bad matchups for us initially, like Elves, combo/Storm, ...


(also I used to play Top in Enchantress quite often, after ESG's example, so I guess it's back to Mirri's Guile for now)



So in general, this seems bad. On another note though it may mean something positive:

Without Miracles, the choice between Doomwake Giant/Emrakul/Replenish lists, or Rest In Peace/Helm of Obedience lists seems easier. I'm sad I don't get to Cast Out cycle + Replenish now, but I think cutting Emrakul/Replenish and going all in on Rip/Helm seems correct right now. This also allows for maindeck Humility to shut off Elves/Rec Sage and DnT/Revoker on Helm.
(altho 4 mana is a lot to resolve against these 2 decks)

These aren't new ideas but it makes it easier to choose 1 version over the other imho, as Emrakul seems very meh in the matchups we might face over the next few months (except maybe 4c Czech Pile or Painter or so).
Doomwake is nice against Elves/DnT, but against Elves I'm dead before casting him anyway.

And Helm/Rip is pretty good against Leovold decks, compared to having to chain 3 enchantments through Doomwake without draw triggers to kill Leo. Even in the matchups where I don't particularly like Helm-Rip (like DnT), it's still a pretty fast kill if you can protect it with Grove/Humility.


Edit: for splash options I'd still be doubting between Red (Blood Moon vs BUG), Blue (Energy Field vs Burn/Eldrazi), and Black (Engineered Plague vs Elves/DnT and Parallax Nexus vs Storm and other combo). Guess to be sure about that we'd have to see which direction the meta takes.

Edit 2: increase in Elves + possibly Belcher & the likes, makes me keen on trying that Tabernacle tech. Glad I ordered one 2 weeks ago
As much as I am partial to RIP-Helm enchantress I don't think it's the right direction to take to beat the meta.

Assuming control will wane, and combo will rise it makes sense to me to lean more on Replenish. RIP-Helm had an issue with BGx decks which I can only imagine will rise now.

Elves will certainly rise in play, and BR reanimator may go further unchecked with less Forces running around.

Combo tends to rely on discard vs Countermagic to tempo to combo so casting a T3 Replenish could have a lot of upswing.

Assuming the meta will swing combo with the control decks being BGx and D&T I’d focus the deck back to control and beating their disruption with Replenish

Honestly, this could be the meta for a tuned GW Opal-Wave