Enchant the Dead by gamerman797

Format: Commander

Commander: Anikthea, Hand of Erebos

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This Abzan deck commands Anikthea, Hand of Erebos to execute a potent enchantment reanimator strategy. The game plan centers on rapidly stocking the graveyard with game-warping enchantments like Legion Loyalty, Cathars' Crusade, Doubling Season, and Summon: Knights of Round using efficient enablers like Entomb, Buried Alive, and Hermit Druid. On Turn 4, Anikthea enters to forge 3/3 Zombie enchantment creature copies of these milled permanents. Attacking on Turn 5 accelerates this engine, doubling tokens and stacking anthem counters across an evasive menace board. Protected by blanket shroud from Greater Auramancy and Sterling Grove, the deck converts massive enchantment tokens into overwhelming combat damage, closing the game on Turn 6. While vulnerable to targeted graveyard exile and non-targeted board wipes, the deck leverages deep recursion, secondary engines like Demon of Fate's Design, and asymmetric powerhouses like Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines to maintain relentless pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Another Round
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baneful Omen
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood for Bones
  • 1 Boon of the Spirit Realm
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charming Prince
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Demon of Fate's Design
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Ennis, Debate Moderator
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Ethereal Absolution
  • 1 Extinguish All Hope
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gravebreaker Lamia
  • 1 Greater Auramancy
  • 1 Grim Guardian
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Jukai Naturalist
  • 1 Legion Loyalty
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 Mana Tithe
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Primal Vigor
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Renewed Solidarity
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Search for Tomorrow
  • 1 Serra's Sanctum
  • 1 Setessan Champion
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 1 Summon: Knights of Round
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Windswept Heath