Overview:

This Eriette of the Charmed Apple deck focuses on enchantment-based control and incremental life drain. The strategy combines Aura-based creature lockdown, enchantress card draw engines, and commander-enabled life swing effects. While lacking infinite combos, it aims to win through cumulative value from constellation triggers, protected voltron threats, and Eriette's scaling life drain.

Primer:

Core Strategy: This deck seeks to control opponents' boards through pacifying Auras while building an enchantment count for Eriette's life drain. The gameplan unfolds in three phases:

1. Early Control: Use cheap Auras like Flickering Ward and Hyena Umbra to neutralize threats while establishing enchantress engines (Mesa Enchantress, Kor Spiritdancer).
2. Midgame Value: Recur key Auras with Replenish/Retether while amplifying Eriette's drain with token generators (Archon of Sun's Grace) and protection (Greater Auramancy).
3. Endgame: Close with either Eriette's amplified life swings (potentially doubled by Wound Reflection), a Sphere of Safety lock, or a voltron threat enhanced by All That Glitters/Ethereal Armor.

Key Interactions:

• Hateful Eidolon + Sacrificial Auras creates card advantage
• Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice tutors critical protection Auras
• Wound Reflection doubles Eriette's life drain each turn cycle
• Inkshield converts enemy attacks into lethal token swarms

Mulligan Priorities:

• Keep hands with 3 lands and 1-2 early Auras/enchantresses
• Prioritize Aura tutors (Heliod's Pilgrim, Open the Armory) over reactive spells
• Avoid hands without early interaction against aggressive metas

Critical Sequencing:

1. Protect Eriette with Gift of Immortality or Benevolent Blessing
2. Layer multiple enchantress effects before mass recursion
3. Time Winds of Rath to clear non-enchanted threats during opponents' development

Weaknesses:

Critical:

• Complete enchantment wipes (Cleansing Nova, Farewell) destroy multiple gameplans
• Lacks instant-speed interaction against noncreature combos

Moderate:

• Slow recovery from early commander removal (Eriette recast to 7+ mana)
• Limited redundancy for key constellation engines

Minor:

• Graveyard reliance partially mitigated by Bojuka Bog/Emeria

Most Important Cards:

• Archon of Sun's Grace
• Hateful Eidolon
• Replenish
• Sphere of Safety
• Wound Reflection
• Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice
• Greater Auramancy
• Retether
• All That Glitters
• Kor Spiritdancer

Attribute Ratings:

Speed: 5/10

• Requires 5+ turns to establish meaningful life drain
• Voltron threats need 3+ Auras to become lethal

Resilience: 6/10

• Multiple recursion effects (Replenish, Emeria)
• Protection Auras mitigate targeted removal
• Fold to back-to-back enchantment wipes

Consistency: 7/10

• 8+ Aura tutors and enchantress draw engines
• Multiple redundancy in key effects (3 mass recursion spells)

Interaction: 6/10

• Premium targeted removal (Anguished Unmaking, Despark)
• Lacks stack interaction beyond Devoted Caretaker
• Strong board wipes (Farewell, Winds of Rath)

Rating Justification:

This deck exceeds precon-level consistency with strong tutoring and recursion (Rubric 5.0 traits) but lacks the speed (T8-10 wins vs T7-8) and combo density of optimized lists. It matches "Optimized Casual" in interaction quality and resilience but needs more turns to execute its wincons than true focused decks. The life drain plan struggles against fast combo tables but dominates in creature-heavy midrange metas.

Power level: 5.0 - 5.5