Overview:

This Sythis, Harvest's Hand deck is a GW enchantress stax/combo hybrid leveraging Sythis's card draw to assemble lockdown pieces and win through infinite life/damage combos or alt-win conditions. The deck balances enchantress value engines, stax disruption, and resilient combo finishers, but lacks cEDH-level speed and redundancy.

Primer:

Core Strategy:
Deploy Sythis early to fuel card advantage from enchantment casts. Use stax pieces (Rest in Peace, Stony Silence, Hushbringer) to slow opponents while assembling the Heliod, Sun-Crowned + Walking Ballista infinite life/damage combo. Alternate wincons include Test of Endurance and Approach of the Second Sun. Redundant enchantress effects (Argothian Enchantress, Enchantress's Presence) maintain card flow under stax.

Key Lines:

1. T1-T2 Sythis via mana dorks/auras (Wild Growth, Utopia Sprawl)
2. Tutor for combo pieces with Enlightened Tutor/Idyllic Tutor while disrupting opponents
3. Protect combo with Sterling Grove, Heroic Intervention, and Teferi's Protection
4. Recover from wipes via Replenish/Resurgent Belief

Mulligan Priorities:

• Keep hands with Sythis + 2+ enchantments
• Prioritize T1 mana enchantments (Wild Growth) or dorks
• Reject hands lacking green/white sources or early plays

Critical Interactions:

• Serra's Sanctum + Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx enable explosive mana for combo turns
• Solitary Confinement + Sythis creates a soft lock with card draw
• Solemnity neuters counters-based strategies and enables 0-counter Walking Ballista

Weaknesses:

Critical:

• No backup wincon if Heliod/Ballista are exiled
• Heavy reliance on enchantments makes it vulnerable to mass enchantment removal (Cleansing Nova)

Moderate:

• Limited creature removal beyond Grasp of Fate
• Stax pieces like Suppression Field hinder own mana rocks

Minor:

• Life gain synergies partially mitigate aggro

Most Important Cards:

• Heliod, Sun-Crowned
• Walking Ballista
• Sterling Grove
• Replenish
• Serra's Sanctum
• Enlightened Tutor
• Argothian Enchantress
• Teferi's Protection
• Rest in Peace
• Stony Silence

Attribute Ratings:

Speed: 7/10
Can assemble T4-T5 combo with optimal draws (T1 ramp → T2 Sythis → T3 tutor → T4 combo). Lacks free mana rocks for cEDH speeds.

Resilience: 6/10
Multiple protection spells and graveyard recursion, but core combo remains 2-card vulnerable. Weak to focused enchantment hate.

Consistency: 8/10
12 enchantress effects/draw engines + 7 tutors. Sythis provides constant card flow once established.

Interaction: 5/10
Focused on stax over targeted removal. Relies on Grasp of Fate/Darksteel Mutation for threats. Limited stack interaction beyond Silence.

Rating Justification:

Faster than optimized casual (T5 goldfish) but slower than cEDH combos. Resilient to single-target removal but folds to board wipes/enchantment sweepers. Comparable to tiered stax decks like Sythis cEDH (7.5) but lacks their free interaction and compact wincons.

Power level: 6.5 - 7.0