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8 months ago ::
Nov 01, 2012 - 3:18PM
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Hello! I tried to create a control deck built around enchantments. Using Oblivion ring  , Pacifism  , Feeling of Dread  and in later stages Martial Law  and Sphere of Safety  to take care of threats and slow down the opponent. Ethereal armor  and Spectral flight  will boost my creatures and hopefully deliver the killing blow. Bonds of Faith  can also be used for making our guys bigger or to take care of non-humans. I put some stuff in the sideboard that hopefully will be relevant against less creature heavy decks. Suggestions on sideboard cards would be nice!? Right now this is pretty much a budget build and for now I am probably keeping it that way. That's why there is an absence for Detention Sphere  and Shocklands. Anyway, here is the deck. Any suggestions on how to improve it is appreciated!  6 x Island  9 x Plains  4 x Azorius Guildgate  4 x Glacial Fortress  1 x Rogue's Passage  4 x Invisible Stalker  2 x Fencing Ace  2 x Bruna, Light of Alabaster  3 x Feeling of Dread 1 x Terminus  4 x Pacifism 4 x Oblivion Ring  3 x Martial Law 4 x Sphere of Safety 4 x Ethereal Armor  3 x Bonds of Faith 2 x Spectral Flight  Sideboard: 3 x Dissipate  3 x Negate  1 x Island 1 x Feeling of Dread 3 x Curiosity  2 x Divine Deflection  2 x Nevermore 
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8 months ago ::
Nov 03, 2012 - 11:58AM
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Okay, I have been looking for some other interesting enchantments that I probably will put in the sideboard. Stony Silence  - Against Artifacts Curse of Echoes  - Against Control and decks with lots of instants/sorcery Rest in Peace  - Against Reanimator decks/Flashback/Snapcaster And maybe add a couple of Arrest  if I think I need more stuff to shut down creatures, but probably not. Also I am pondering if exchanging Fencing Ace for Lyev Skyknight  would be any good. This guy already has evasion and the detain ability is also useful for buying some time. Then I would probably take out Spectral Flight and add 1 Bonds of Faith and 1 Curiosity . Thoughts on this or the deck in the first post?
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8 months ago ::
Nov 03, 2012 - 1:21PM
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You've got card advantage problems if your acting as a control/midrange deck. Your lacking draw, your answers are mostly one for one, and your threats are not threats by themselves (bar bruna), as well as enchantments leaveing you generaly vunerable to being 2 for 1ed. The times when enchantment.dec has been a viable option has been when there have been cards that either draw you cards related to enchantments or put bodies on the field from it, and even then they would have a decent number of credable non-enchantment based threats incase they got hated out.
That being said, depending on your enviroment, it could well work out. If you have all the bits for it already, just make up the deck and go play it. Figure out which cards are most often dead draws when on the back foot and redundent when your winning and sub them out for other stuff. Nothing is a substitite for practice and experience piloting a deck.
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8 months ago ::
Nov 04, 2012 - 3:49AM
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You've got card advantage problems if your acting as a control/midrange deck. Your lacking draw, your answers are mostly one for one, and your threats are not threats by themselves (bar bruna), as well as enchantments leaveing you generaly vunerable to being 2 for 1ed. The times when enchantment.dec has been a viable option has been when there have been cards that either draw you cards related to enchantments or put bodies on the field from it, and even then they would have a decent number of credable non-enchantment based threats incase they got hated out.
That being said, depending on your enviroment, it could well work out. If you have all the bits for it already, just make up the deck and go play it. Figure out which cards are most often dead draws when on the back foot and redundent when your winning and sub them out for other stuff. Nothing is a substitite for practice and experience piloting a deck.
To draw more cards I guess I could put a couple of Curiosity into the main deck, or maybe Tandem Lookout  ? Curiosity seems like the best idea for this, the downside is I also need a creature to make them work, preferbly Invisible Stalker . If that fails what can I use, Think twice  ?
I think that soon I will have amassed the majority of cards that I need for this deck, so then I can start to try it out.
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8 months ago ::
Nov 04, 2012 - 9:07AM
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If you are looking for enchantment control consider adding in green for abundant growth (helps in a 3 color deck, gives you a card draw) and consider adding mana bloom to help you with mana as well (and maybe at that point you can cut back on some lands?) Casting mana bloom for 1 or 2 may seem like a lot at first but if you tempo the game and you have a few mana blooms on the board, with all of the other enchantments your opponent is going to have a very hard time attacking you.
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8 months ago ::
Nov 04, 2012 - 10:19AM
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If you are looking for enchantment control consider adding in green for abundant growth (helps in a 3 color deck, gives you a card draw) and consider adding mana bloom to help you with mana as well (and maybe at that point you can cut back on some lands?) Casting mana bloom for 1 or 2 may seem like a lot at first but if you tempo the game and you have a few mana blooms on the board, with all of the other enchantments your opponent is going to have a very hard time attacking you.
That's an interesting thought, I'll keep that in mind. Green also opens up for Rancor  and that's not bad I guess...
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8 months ago ::
Nov 04, 2012 - 10:25AM
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8 months ago ::
Nov 04, 2012 - 11:56AM
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8 months ago ::
Nov 04, 2012 - 12:28PM
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There is nor reason to not maindeck the 2 nevermore when there are such predictable targets in standard (unburial rites, thragtusk, huntmaster etc) and you are running ethereal armor. A Parselene can take you apart so if they are sideboarding it you have to be concious of that for your nevermore as well.
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8 months ago ::
Nov 04, 2012 - 2:09PM
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