great enchanter by Minosheep

Format: Commander

Commander: Tellah, Great Sage

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is an Izzet enchantment-control and pillowfort strategy commanded by Tellah, Great Sage. The primary game plan revolves around ramping in the first three turns to deploy Tellah on Turn 4, followed by chaining impactful 4+ CMC noncreature spells starting on Turn 5. Each 4+ CMC spell triggers Tellah to generate 1/1 Hero creature tokens and draw two cards, creating a self-fueling card advantage and board-building engine. On Turn 6, the deck converts these Hero tokens into a win condition or hard lock using Opposition to tap down opposing lands during upkeeps, or via direct damage engines like Court of Embereth and Kyren Negotiations. Defensive enchantments such as Frozen Aether, Collective Restraint, Caverns of Despair, and Meishin, the Mind Cage completely shut down enemy aggression, allowing the deck to safely close the game around Turn 8 through token swarms, burn, or the infinite draw combo of Chromatic Orrery and Mind Over Matter.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ajani Unrelenting
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Behold the Unspeakable // Vision of the Unspeakable
  • 1 Bulwark
  • 1 Burning Earth
  • 1 Caverns of Despair
  • 1 Chamber of Manipulation
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Collective Restraint
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conscience
  • 1 Court of Embereth
  • 1 Court of Vantress
  • 1 Coveted Jewel
  • 1 Curse of Echoes
  • 1 Curse of Unbinding
  • 1 Dissipation Field
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Extravagant Replication
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Followed Footsteps
  • 1 Frozen Aether
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Hive Mind
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kiora Bests the Sea God
  • 1 Kitnap
  • 1 Kyren Negotiations
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Echoes
  • 1 Maximum Carnage
  • 1 Meishin, the Mind Cage
  • 1 Mind Over Matter
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mordenkainen
  • 15 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Decree
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Opposition
  • 1 Ral and the Implicit Maze
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ring of the Lucii
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squeeze
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stolen Strategy
  • 1 Stonespeaker Crystal
  • 1 Storm of Saruman
  • 1 Storm the Vault // Vault of Catlacan
  • 1 Stranglehold
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Tellah, Great Sage
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Treachery
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Uncover the Moon-Letters
  • 1 Wizard's Staff