Enchantment Beat Down by user8962478

Format: Commander

Commander: Zur, Eternal Schemer

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Enchantress midrange strategy led by Zur, Eternal Schemer. The primary game plan revolves around deploying high-impact non-Aura enchantments, enchantment creatures, and constellation engines. Zur turns these enchantments into durable, lethal combatants by giving enchantment creatures deathtouch, lifelink, and hexproof, while allowing you to animate noncreature enchantments for just {1}{W}. The deck controls the board through asymmetric sweepers like Extinguish All Hope and Cacophony Unleashed, alongside multi-target exile effects such as Grasp of Fate. Card advantage is sustained through enchantresses and Glimmer creatures like Enduring Innocence and Enduring Curiosity. As the game progresses into Turn 6, the deck converts token generators like Sigil of the Empty Throne and Archon of Sun's Grace into an overwhelming, evasive aerial assault. While vulnerable to mass enchantment exile, its layered resilience and combat keywords make it extremely difficult to race in conventional damage battles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alseid of Life's Bounty
  • 1 Altar of the Pantheon
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Courage
  • 1 Archon of Sun's Grace
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Balemurk Leech
  • 1 Banishing Light
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cacophony Unleashed
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Detention Sphere
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Doomwake Giant
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Erebos, God of the Dead
  • 1 Extinguish All Hope
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Dancers
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Glimmerburst
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Grim Guardian
  • 1 Heliod, God of the Sun
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Karmic Justice
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Loran's Escape
  • 1 Mesa Enchantress
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Moon-Blessed Cleric
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nyx-Fleece Ram
  • 1 Oblivion Ring
  • 1 Omen of the Sea
  • 1 Ondu Spiritdancer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overlord of the Floodpits
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 16 Plains
  • 1 Psemilla, Meletian Poet
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Seal from Existence
  • 1 Sigil of the Empty Throne
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Soaring Lightbringer
  • 1 Spirited Companion
  • 1 Starnheim Courser
  • 1 Stenn, Paranoid Partisan
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Thassa, God of the Sea
  • 1 The Master of Keys
  • 1 Thirst for Meaning
  • 1 Trapped in the Screen
  • 1 Underworld Coinsmith
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zur, Eternal Schemer