Consripted Enchantress

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Happy Friday to all,
Don't forget to hook up with your friends and head out to FNM tonight and get in some gaming time (there's nothing on TV anyways).

We want to thank everyone who sent in eMails or comments on our recent casual magic Aura Deck Challenge posted HERE on Wednesday - especially Kev, Peter and Aaron who through their efforts, we might have a decent deck to bring in tonight at the local games store.

An unblockable 14/14 Aura Gnarlid is a scary thing kids

We got in some further playtesting with the new aura build - this is your standard g/w enchantress deck with the new Mesa Enchantress ver. 2.0 (Kor Spiritdancer) with the addition of Sovereigns of Lost Alara (which we happened to have a few of laying around) to tutor out this deck's punchline, Eldrazi Conscription.


Here is the decklist - one note however, after yattering to the fellas, we may mainboard Mark of Asylum given my local metagame's propensity for Jund builds.

Consripted Enchantress

Critters 'n' Spells : 40

4 x Birds of Paradise
4 x Noble Hierarch
4 x Kor Spiritdancer
4 x Canopy Cover
2 x Pacifism
2 x Hyena Umbra
4 x Mesa Enchantress
4 x Aura Gnarlid
2 x Bear Umbra
2 x Snake Umbra
2 x Oblivion Ring
2 x Sigil of the Empty Throne
2 x Sovereigns of Lost Alara
2 x Eldrazi Conscription

Land Ho : 20
8 x Forest
6 x Plains
1 x Island
2 x Sunpetal Grove
2 x Serjiri Steppe
1 x Celestial Colonnade



We were at first a bit concerned about only running 20 land but playtesting demonstrated that we had plenty of mana ramp available via the Hierarch and the Birds. We were able to consistently power out Sovereigns on turn four or five with the game ending in our favour in within the next two turns - not too bad. We especially loved the conditional text on Aura Gnarlid which allows one to swing in unblocked should the defending player not have any blockers with power matching or exceeding the Gnarlid.

Loads of more tweaking to take place after additional gaming in tonight at Friday Night Magic - - drop us a line / comment for suggestions which are more than welcome.

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Aura Deck Challenge

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Happy Wednesday folks,

Today is an odd post. We may have already harped on about just what a great card Eldrazi Conscription, especially when coupled with other synergistic cards such as Kor Spiritdancer / Mesa Enchantress and / or Aura Gnarlid.


We had latter thought onto sneaking Eldrazi Conscription out of the deck either with a tutor instead of a hard cast. Altough Totem-Guide Hartebeest (what the hell is a 'hartebeest' anyways?) is good to pull out the conscription, we now have heard a lot of talk about just how much better Sovereigns of Lost Alara is to do this in a game. This is confirmed by the deck that Reid Duke played in the recent PTQ Amsterdam tournament in Boston this past weekend . . .



Here is what Jacob Van Lunen had to say about the combo . .
Eldrazi Conscription is not just a combo piece to go with your Sovereigns of Lost Alara. The eight-mana enchantment is a very real threat. One thing to keep in mind: annihilator won't trigger when you use Sovereigns of Lost Alara to attach the Eldrazi Conscription. Annihilator triggers when the creature attacks. It already attacked by the time the Eldrazi Conscription is attached, so annihilator trigger. Cold-casting Eldrazi Conscription is an incredible play once you have eight lands in play. I recommend waiting for your opponent to tap out.

Righto . . .

Here is the deck build challenge we give you the readers to mull over.
Develop a standard-legal deck with Kor Spiritdancer AND Eldrazi Conscription. We will pull together your choices and over the next several weeks, playtest the deck with as much gaming as we can get in. There are no prizes sorry, just an honorable mention as to your deck-building prowess.

Some cards to consider for inclusion depending upon what colours you finally decide on . . .



Here is a pre-mature build which we hope to tweak with your suggestions . .


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One last piece of news,
We just noticed that MTG Mint Card just restocked a bunch of Rise of the Eldrazi mythics / rares . . . check it out. (they were certainly selling like hot-cakes).
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