Nyxhand by millerex

Format: Commander

Commander: Anikthea, Hand of Erebos

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This Abzan Enchantress deck is helmed by Anikthea, Hand of Erebos, blending classic enchantment card draw with graveyard reanimation and wide token beatdown. Early turns focus on accelerating mana via low-cost ramp like Wild Growth and Sanctum Weaver while establishing draw engines like Sythis, Harvest's Hand and stocking the graveyard with powerful enchantments via Entomb, Ripples of Undeath, or cycling. On Turn 4, casting Anikthea, Hand of Erebos reanimates a key enchantment from the graveyard as a 3/3 Zombie creature token with menace. By Turn 5, attack triggers duplicate additional anthems, token doublers, or utility engines like Hallowed Haunting, Parallel Lives, or Boon of the Spirit Realm. Pairing Anikthea's menace aura with Familiar Ground makes the entire enchantment creature army completely unblockable. The deck protects its board with Sterling Grove and Heroic Intervention, suppresses opposing boards with Aura Shards and Doomwake Giant, and closes games by Turn 7 via overwhelming evasive combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Argothian Enchantress
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boon of the Spirit Realm
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Calix, Guided by Fate
  • 1 Cast Out
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Composer of Spring
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demon of Fate's Design
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Destiny Spinner
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doomwake Giant
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Eerie Ultimatum
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Enchantress's Presence
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Familiar Ground
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Femeref Enchantress
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Greater Auramancy
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Haunting
  • 1 Herald of the Pantheon
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Jukai Naturalist
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mesa Enchantress
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Nylea's Colossus
  • 1 Nyxborn Behemoth
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Replenish
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Setessan Champion
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Starfield Mystic
  • 1 Starfield of Nyx
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sythis, Harvest's Hand
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 True Conviction
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Weaver of Harmony
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath