Conquering Your Commander: Anikthea, Hand of Erebos (

[@Dev.L]

If you don't prefer artifact ramp, why not try enchantment ramp since that's her theme? Cards like Utopia sprawl, Fertile Ground and Overgrowth. There's some non-Aura ones you can use too that you can later animate.

[@ARKmaster117]

Familiar Ground, Font of Fertility, Omen of the Hunt, Soul Snare, Seal of Cleansing, Seal of Primordium, Seal of Doom, Pernicious Deed, Aura of Silence, Collective Blessing, Dictate of Heliod, Mirari's Wake, Hallowed Haunting, True Conviction, Legion Loyalty, Weaver of Harmony, Ghostly Prison, Sphere of Safety, Femeref Enchantress, Elemental Bond, Cemetary Tampering, Authority of the Consuls, Blind Obedience, Smothering Tithe.

[@dbroccoliman]

I'm obsessed With Anikthea, I've made like 10 different versions of the deck. Such a cool commander.

[@architectofdreams73]

same, one of my new favorite Commanders, at first she seemed so limited, but I am having fun coming up with different concepts with her.

[@jasonandrews1770]

Fun fact. Flowering of the white tree give legendary creatures ward 1. If you bring it back with anikthea it gives itself ward 1

[@tfdrago]

I really liked the fact that she can bring back sagas as well, you take in populate was awesome! Thanks for that idea!! I'm looking forward to build her too!

[@blemski]

Played her last night with a good populate engine going, ended up with 9 eldest reborn at once

[@anima132000]

Want to point out another win con with parallax and wave is grim guardian. Since the etb of the blinks will trigger the damage effect so this gives you another potential combo piece in the equation without having to rely on the mill.

[@shirmpnotshrimp6891]

One card that I really want to try out with anikthea is Familiar ground as it makes your enchantment creatures unblockeable, making it easier for anikthea to get the triggers off when you don’t get access to more of her etb

[@its_dragonoct]

As much as I hate Commander Masters and the preconstructed decks, I've always loved Anikthea as an Abzan Enjoyer and an Enchantments player. Nice includes, thanks for the ideas!

[@Deckscavate]

My favorite enchantments commander and imo the best of the precons from CM

[@seductiveswine7387]

One of my personal favorite Anikthea combos is with this cute little enchantment called Out of Time. Definitely janky, but you can use Anikthea's trigger to reanimate it as a token (you should probably get rid of Anikthea before its trigger goes off), at which point it will phase out all creatures on the battlefield including itself, potentially permanently removing your opponents commanders from the game. Hilarious!

[@loganmoore7814]

But phasing out counts as leaving the battlefield right? Wouldnt it just not work?

[@seductiveswine7387]

@@loganmoore7814 Nope, phasing is not an LTB. The card just stops existing, and then starts existing when designated.

[@dracomarinus962]

The problem ive been having is getting anikthea out of the way before the trigger. Maybe in response to the trigger i could use an instant to destroy her?

[@seductiveswine7387]

@@dracomarinus962That would be the ideal situation, yeah

[@monsiourglitch6750]

I really like to play the white and black Archetype creatures of OG Theros to give all my creatures not only menace but also deathtouch and firststrike 😈. Love your Channel! Greetings from Germany!

[@architectofdreams73]

I run all 3 Abzan archetype enchantment creatures. very good

[@AxillaryPower2]

I played Anikthea a few times and ended up populating zombie tokens of ethereal absolution. Worked pretty well.

[@remillad]

Consider enchantment ramp in place of artifacts. Wild Growth, Fertile Ground, Overgrowth are all super efficient ramp spells, and you can go much deeper if you like. They are auras, so you can't reanimate them with Anikthea, but you will benefit from synergies like Enchantress draw or constellation triggers.

[@kittymcjesus149]

Cheap Mill/Card Draw Spells, Self-Saccing Enchantments, and zombie synergy seem very vital here. I'm going to run cards like [[Ransack the Lab]], [[Mulch]], [[Commune with the Gods]], [[Relentless Pursuit]], [[Wasteful Harvest]], and [[Vessel of Nascency]]. Cards like Vessel are great because they ensure we have targets to pick from after we sacrifice them. [[Sinister Concotion]] also mills and acts as a discard outlet. [[Font of Fertility]], [[Sunspring Expedition]] is essentially 16 life for 1 mana, [[The Binding of the Titans]], [[Elsepth Conquers Death]], and [[Tyramet Calls the Dead]] are all Flavorful AND put themselves in the graveyard for use later. [[Tyramet Calls the Dead]] works with the zombies you'll make. [[Putrid Imp]] let's you Discard enchantments you want to Bin and is a zombie itself. [[Endless Ranks of the Dead]] can get out of hand if you start copying it. Etc. Finally, [[Astral Drift]] to blink Anikthea for more reanimation. Cycle to Bin it and to get a free trigger. Run some Cycling cards like [[Migration Path]], [[Wilt]], [[Cast out]], or Cycle lands to make some fun plays. That's my plan.

[@TheJarreaunewton]

I feel like Riftsweeper would be great in the deck, especially accompanied by teleportation circle. That way, you keep getting cards out of exile and your commander benefits from it as well.

[@richardsperry9199]

As a fellow Karador player and enchantress lover- I’m excited!

[@santaclashroyale9904]

Some cards & combos I run in this deck are Full flowering, its an XX{G} Sorcery that has you populate X times, its really busted when you have 20 copies of Collective Blessing on the battlefield and all of my creatures are 60/60s. This combo is a little interesting but I also run Skybind and Eternal Witness which basically means whenever an enchantment ETBs I can blink Eternal Witness and return any cards I want from the graveyard to my hand. Anyways love this commander and those are some cards I use :)

[@MrMac1219]

Pull From Eternity may be worth it over Riftsweeper seeing as it immediately puts the card into the graveyard to be used again. I wouldn't go too hard on Enchantress draw effects probably 3 (Sythis and Presence being the best as they are enchantments) at most with the constellation draws then some more enchantment based draw engines (Elemental Bond, Sylvan Library) or mill/card selection stuff like Vessel of Nascency or Grisly Salvage. Blink can be very valuable to guarantee more triggers from Anikthea as she will be a prime target for removal. Teleportation Circle and Far Traveler are the best as you could curve up with both into Anikthea. Ojer Taq may be expensive at 6 mana but that's actually perfect if you curve into it witha surviving Anikthea to triple up on her attack trigger. Enchanment Ramp is likely preferred over the traditional land fetch. Stuff like Utopia Sprawl/Wild Growth cannot be reanimated but are both great turn 1 ramps. Sanctum Weaver is just a no brainer for Enchantments, Mirari's Wake, Exploration and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove are great as well. Actually didn't catch the Basalt Monolith combo in my build and may try to find space for that.

[@Jade_Sush1]

First! Love this series! You're one of the best mtg based channels on here!

[@MTGMuddstah]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@zairejordan4410]

I would also add Daxos, The Returned and Pharika, God of Afflictions. Pharika allows you to make black/green enchantment snake creature tokens by exiles a card (I think a creature card). Daxos allows you to get experience counters. Then pay black and while to create a black/white enchantment creature spirit token.

[@architectofdreams73]

except you have to remove your own creatures from your own graveyard to get the snakes.

[@Fragoo22]

Worth noting with Parralax Wave and Opalescence, you not only can infinitely blink all your enchantments, you can also permanently exile your opponent's creatures if you choose to remove fade counters after the one you're using to blink Parralax Wave itself. The LTB trigger would happen first, then the exile of opponent's creatures, which never come back since Parralax Wave is a new object.

[@omarnuneznavy]

Can you please explain how it is infinitely? I am trying to understand the combo because Parralax wave, remove one counter so how can you remove more than one to exile both the commander and the parralax wave in the same turn?

[@MrMac1219]

@@omarnuneznavy Any activated ability that doesn't require being tapped or isn't restricted to "X per turn" can be done as long as you have the required cost. Parallax puts 5 fade counters on itself with ETB. Active ability "Remove 1 Fade counter: Remove Creature" You can do this 5 times because you have 5 counters. Now with Anikthea or Opalescence turning Parallax into a creature you can remove itself causing it to come back and put 5 new counters on, rinse and repeat.

[@calebecker2231]

Grim Guardian was an auto include in my current version. Paired with the sheer amount of populating and dumb amounts of myriad with Legion Loyalty, I found my games ending quickly. Huge eureka with the Basalt/orb combo!

[@gdmikester4302]

I would suggest including more cards that enable the recursion strategy on their own, like touch the spirit realm, font of fertility, tymaret calls the dead, etc.

[@alexanderlerch3318]

My most recent addition is wren and relambreaker it’s final ability is broken with this deck but it first ability is really helpful to

[@Vidious808]

Cool change of pace 👌

[@kyubikirby]

I wanted to build around the backup commander and have fun with enchantment aristocrats shenanigans

[@Onattamato]

I'm really excited by the Saga commander that comes as a backup in her precon. Tom Bombadil is cool, but card draw and doming everyone sounds cooler.

[@king.eternal5980]

I love this series

[@Blacklodge_Willy]

Abzan, Enchantment AND Graveyard shinanagins! I've been all in since she was announced! Oppression, Necrogen Mist, and solidary confinement should not be overlooked!

[@seductiveswine7387]

You’re speaking my language - a grindy discard engine is exactly how I’m building her too!

[@architectofdreams73]

@@seductiveswine7387 Chains ftw

[@seaweedsoupmeowington9429]

filth, glory, and valor were my first picks

[@Boblol126]

I’ve missed these

[@ARKmaster117]

More than anything, Familiar Ground. Makes Menace creatures unblockable.

[@TheOpenmindStudio]

Every-time I put her down, my opponent always immediately gets rid of her xD

[@omarnuneznavy]

I need help understanding the final combo. Parallax wave says to remove a fade counter at the beginning of your upkeep. So that does that mean in one turn, you excel the commander at the upkeep than wait the next turn upkeep to remove parallax wave??? im just confuse about the whole combo of it.

[@MayhemMessiah]

Step 1: Animate Cathars' Crusade as a Token Step 2: Populate Cathars' Crusade several times Step 3: AHHHHHHHHHHHH Step 4: Win the game

[@fallsenseless9699]

Had her proxied and still had the same issue as most enchantress decks. No way to end game. Sure them being 3/3’s with menace helps but they still fold to most basic removal.

[@MTGMuddstah]

That’s why I will be including my combo.

[@walterppk1989]

If were not really that interested in black, sythis is the superior choice

[@MTGMuddstah]

I mean black comes with some goodies. Tutors, Entomb, etc

[@numnut154]

If you want to build a completely different deck, sure bud.

[@salvatorestabile5547]

I love enchantress but Sythis is so boring.

[@walterppk1989]

@@numnut154 is it though? Look at all the stuff in this deck tech. There's hardly any black.

[@walterppk1989]

@@MTGMuddstah in my opinion, tutors don't belong in a relatively low power edh deck like this.

[@daftjoe5652]

The Parallax Wave combo won't work if you do it in the "classic" way, where you exile 4 cards holding priority and then exile Parallax wave to itself though. You'll have to exile Anikthea. Then, after resolving, exile Parallax Wave. Otherwise Anikthea will never see the Parallax Wave that exiled her leave the battlefield

[@spiralhaze2070]

Btw when you have both Parallax Wave and Opalescence out, you can permanently remove all of your opponents creatures. Target up to 4 creatures you want to get rid of, hold priority and with the last counter, exile the parallax wave. It will leave the battlefield, triggering its own ability to return all exiled cards (which is only itself right now) Once its back, you let the other triggers resolve. Since the wave that just entered is now a different one than the one that exiled all those creatures, they will remain exiled even if this version of parallax wave leaves the battlefield. These two cards also provide you with infinite constellation triggers by just exiling the wave with its own effect again and again.

[@Buchaus]

Nikki Thikki

[@antoniociarfella1813]

Dont the tokens die from the opalescence combo? Since the tokens become 0/0 from having no cmc 😊

[@jkabanas]

no, the tokens are copies of the enchantment so they copy the mana value too

[@TheZachlang9]

Have any gameplay vids with anikthea?

[@jeremyhayes1163]

I would run more enchantment Ramp and no artifacts

[@architectofdreams73]

sol ring is hard to pass up as a turn 1 ramp. strangely enough land tax + burgeoning is decent that are cheap to cast

[@andrewpark78]

if only token doublers werent a rent payment to get... great list/video nonetheless!