Touched by the Gods by irisible

Format: Commander

Commander: Anikthea, Hand of Erebos

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan enchantment-focused midrange strategy led by Anikthea, Hand of Erebos. It accelerates its mana using low-cost enchantment cost-reducers like Jukai Naturalist and explosive mana producers like Sanctum Weaver. Card flow is powered by classic enchantress engines such as Sythis, Harvest's Hand, Eidolon of Blossoms, and Enchantress's Presence. The primary plan places powerful non-Aura enchantments into the graveyard using cards like Entomb and Kruphix's Insight, then reanimates them with Anikthea as 3/3 Zombie enchantment creature tokens. These tokens are duplicated using populate engines like Song of the Worldsoul and Full Flowering, while Hallowed Haunting, Boon of the Spirit Realm, and Destiny Spinner scale the board into a lethal combat force. The deck also wields strong asymmetric control through Aura Shards and Doomwake Giant, steadily dismantling opposing boards while building an overwhelming, evasive token army.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alseid of Life's Bounty
  • 1 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Battle for Bretagard
  • 1 Boon of the Spirit Realm
  • 1 Bow of Nylea
  • 1 Cacophony Unleashed
  • 1 Calix, Destiny's Hand
  • 1 Calix, Guided by Fate
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Composer of Spring
  • 1 Debtors' Knell
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Demon of Fate's Design
  • 1 Destiny Spinner
  • 1 Doomwake Giant
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Druid's Deliverance
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Eerie Ultimatum
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Enchantress's Presence
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Extinguish All Hope
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Full Flowering
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Gravebreaker Lamia
  • 1 Growing Ranks
  • 1 Hallowed Haunting
  • 1 Heliod, God of the Sun
  • 1 Herald of the Pantheon
  • 1 Hunting Grounds
  • 1 Jukai Naturalist
  • 1 Kruphix's Insight
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 1 Mornsong Aria
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Nyxborn Behemoth
  • 1 Ondu Spiritdancer
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Rabble Rousing
  • 1 Revival of the Ancestors
  • 1 Rootborn Defenses
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Setessan Champion
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Soaring Lightbringer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of the Worldsoul
  • 1 Spirited Companion
  • 1 Starfield Mystic
  • 1 Starfield of Nyx
  • 1 Sundering Growth
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sythis, Harvest's Hand
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Three Blind Mice
  • 1 Valgavoth's Lair
  • 1 Weaver of Harmony
  • 1 Yuna, Hope of Spira