[Deck] Solitaire (Enchantress)

[SpatulaOfTheAges]

Thanks for the report, Spatula. A few questions:

What's your feeling on Blood Moon? What would you have brought Sacred Ground in against? I'd also be curious on your thoughts regarding the Pridemage. I didn't find him that helpful in my testing. What did you think of him?

Blood Moon - It's good at what it does but I'm honestly not sure what you'd bring it in against, at least in the current metagame.

Sacred Ground - There was a lot of Aggro Loam and some White Stax, and it's also for Emrakul.

Pridemage hasn't been particularly impressive so far but I'm going to give him a little more time to change my mind.

Thanks for posting up the report. Couple of questions:

Why 4 Carpet of Flowers? Why run them at all? You really have no outlets to abuse the mana directly, and the war-of-attrition so to speak comes from resolving an Enchantress. Yeah, I can see situations where you have 1-3 in hand but only mana for 1 and a Carpet might let you play them either 1 extra or all at once thus denying the opponent the chance to draw into another counter but the card seems to provincial in uses to warrant 4 slots. Honestly I'd rather see you run City of Solitude.

A turn 1 Carpet of Flowers is pretty devastating. With 10 Enchantress, 3 Chokes, Sterling Groves Replenishes and Sigil game 2, I don't really need to worry about attrition as much, especially since most decks are either running mana dependent counters like Spell Pierce, Daze, or Flusterstorm, or else they have a limited ability to counter spells in one turn; even by turn 4 most decks running Counterspell won't have the ability to cast two in one turn due to Wastelands or Factories or off color basics.

Especially with the Delver decks, their strategy is to play a threat and then slow you down with cheap counters; Carpet of Flowers does a number on that strategy. It's also great against Team America.

City of Solitude has long since disappeared from my sideboard. Choke is just much, much better.

In similar thought, based on the fact you seemed to be expecting blue (and that you have GSZ) why wouldn't you want to be running Vexing Shusher?

I did originally until I realized I was never going to GSZ for him; if I'm resolving GSZ in the first place, why not just get an Argothian and start drawing cards? And if I'm not going to GSZ for him, I'm hoping to randomly draw into him. So why wouldn't I just run more GSZs in that spot?

@ Nevermore: Admitingly I aquired a playset as I assumed I might need them at some point, I must know against what decks would you side this in that had threats you couldn't answer with either A)generic enchantress protection, or B) Runed Halo?

Burning Wish
Pernicious Deed
Armageddon
High Tide
Pact of the Titan
Cabal Therapy
Doomsday
Painter's Servant
Lion's Eye Diamond

etc. depending on random match-ups.

Question for me: How has exploration fared in your deck?

It's a very strong aggressive card; it's almost always comes out against blue, but in all but the most blue dominated meta-games I would not go below 2.