Anikthea Eternal by user1814334

Format: Commander

Commander: Anikthea, Hand of Erebos

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 63

Deck overview

This Abzan deck blends traditional enchantress card advantage, proactive stax disruption, and reanimator combat under Anikthea, Hand of Erebos. The early game focuses on accelerating mana through low-cost dorks and auras while deploying asymmetric lock pieces such as Drannith Magistrate, Collector Ouphe, and Deafening Silence. These stax pieces constrain opponents' mana rocks, command zone access, and spell velocity. Simultaneously, the deck seeds powerful enchantments into the graveyard using cards like Entomb, Buried Alive, and Hermit Druid. On turn 4, Anikthea enters the battlefield to reanimate high-impact enchantments—such as Mirari's Wake, Hallowed Haunting, and Grasp of Fate—as 3/3 menacing Zombie creature tokens. Repeated attack triggers create additional tokens, scaling pressure exponentially. While lacking infinite combos, the deck controls the table through tight resource denial, protected by efficient interaction like Heroic Intervention and Veil of Summer, before overwhelming opponents with an unblockable, flying, and menacing enchantment army by turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Emeria
  • 1 Argothian Enchantress
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Aura of Silence
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Destiny Spinner
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Hallowed Haunting
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jukai Naturalist
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Setessan Champion
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sigil of the Empty Throne
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starfield of Nyx
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Stony Silence
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sythis, Harvest's Hand
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yuna, Hope of Spira