MTG Salvation

Quote from Barl, Artificer

If you want protection from discard I suggest you use spiritual focus. It is a real house against hymn's and duress effects. You not only gain life but you get to draw a card and make their discard card disadvantage for them if they choose to play it.

Ivory mask is garbage; I'd rather play bottled cloister despite it being an artifact because it draws you extra cards which equals great things.

Quote from JrGMan2004

Hmm... Ivory Mask is too slow, I think... and it's very often that he's getting me on Turn 1 and 2... I think Compost in the board will really help that match up for me, I just need to get lucky in the first game.

So... Crossroads and Words of Worship I think will come out... probably 1 Runed Halo (and in my meta I would probably never name Goyf seeing as how the Fish player is the only one with Goyfs) and probably another Elephant Grass.

And yeah, he generally picks Enchantress effects... or often times he will grab Solitary or Grove if I have 2 Enchantress effects in my hand, since he knows once I get set-up it's game over for him.

Quote from JrGMan2004

Words of Worship is probably the card I use least often. I'm thinking about replacing it. Maybe with a MB Runed Halo?

I like the Concordant Crossroads. Y'know how sometimes you get one of those big turns where you're able to drop and draw massive amounts of cards? Well sometimes, I don't hit the Words of War but have a Sigil of the Empty Throne out. The crossroads allows me to take the big turn get 5 or 6 angels, then swing for the win that turn. So, there's often times where it saves me the risk of waiting one more turn where maybe they draw that Tranquility and screw me... But... it's usually one of my first cards to sideboard out. It's a card I hate getting early game, because it only helps my opponent. It's usually that, Mirri's Guile, and Exploration that tend to go out. They are nice utility cards for the deck, but aren't necessary for the win.

My meta is VERY underdeveloped. There are not very many top tier, proven decks running around. About half of the players are Rogue builders that primarily play casual and/or standard. But there are good decks that go around. And one guy (the Fish player) that has built a number of decks and loans them out for people to use. That's actually how I got interested in Enchantress. So, including his decks... the better decks in the meta... Elfball, RB Goblins, Merfolk, Kithkin, Mono Black Discard Control, Ravager, Mono Red Burn, and Land Destruction (though he's been having a rough time with that deck and been mostly playing Elfball recently). Fish player also has a Dragon Stompy deck and I think he put together CounterTop and Grindstone/Painter's Servent, but I've never seen him but those last two out for anyone to use so he may not have all the pieces, or pieces are used in whatever deck he's using that night.

MBC has been my toughest match up, as well as MRB. I actually have been having good luck against MRB. I've been getting good hands and been stabilizing with Solitary just in time against him. MBC tends to disrupt my hands early and he's a smart player that knows which cards to pick out of my hand with Thoughtseize and Duress.

Quote from Kuroyanagi

I'm trying to get this together for a legacy tournament in a couple weeks, but Moat is way out of my budget (heck, Savannah is just barely possible). I've been considering Island Sanctuary as a budget option, or is it just not worth it ? I'd think you're drawing enough cards to overcome the drawback, and I doubt I'll run into much merfolk.

Quote from Barl, Artificer

Errr how does runed halo do anything moat doesn't do against thresh? And they can spell snare it; hardly seems like the answer to tempo thresh and thresh in general runs spell snare, I really hate seeing decks with spell snare because they counter your argothian enchantress's. But runed halo skews the manabase against tempo thresh since they run wasteland and fetching savannah = big no no and not having green mana available with this deck generally means GG's unless you've comboed out and have board control.

Quote from Vader

Why can't chantress be aggro?
I love my mono green chantress deck. It can adapt to whatever meta you are in by either playing as a combo deck or going massive beats.

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2 Veridian Enchantress 4 Enchantress Presence 4 Argothian Enchantress 4 Wild Growth	3 Gaea's Touch 4 Eladarmi's Vineyard 4 Wild Growth 2 City of Solitude	4 Rancor 3 Ancestrall mask 4 Endless Wurm 22 Forest

the sideboard is kind of obvious; seal of primordium, elephant grass, choke, etc... (choke is REALLY funny to drop postboard)

Quote from Barl, Artificer

Aggro enchantress? It goes against the whole philosophy of the deck; you run cards like elephant grass, solitary confinement, moat, and oring and you suggest we go aggro? Hells no.

Energy field is blue; so it has terrible synergy with choke one of the best cards in the current meta. And it's only good with wheel of sun and moon so it's a 2 card combo that's hard to assemble before they kill you when you could just as easily set up 2 enchantress effects alongside a solitary confinement. Chrome mox is okay in the deck some people play it I don't personally do.

I'll see you at Minneapolis GP Konig since I live in one of the suburbs of Minneapolis and have already requested that I have work off both days. I'll most likely play in the side event legacy as well.

Quote from kndarlow413

oh and GOOD LUCK! One thing I might suggest is 1-2 *** SB for aggroishy decks. If you expect a lot of Fish (Merfolk fish), Goblins.

Quote from FieryBalrog

I suppose there's Illusionary Servant, but he does cost double U and can't wear equipment.

And yea, I don't think Sea Drake is worth the investment, Fairy Stompy really isn't Tier 1 and it doesn't see much use outside of it. I still wouldn't buy a second playset of Goyfs, though, I'd rather be boring and have two decks with the same color sleeves than re-buy cards I already own.

Quote from einhorn303

Yeah, I've seen it called Baseruption a few times. Though Countertop is really more descriptive. People always want to give "cute" unique names to their style of a deck to make it more descriptive. (i.e., "It's not Threshold! It's Turbo-Maine Reservoir Dogs! Because it plays Wild Mongrel too!")

Quote from audiox

This is a sad story.

@KonigBohnr - That's expensive! I don't think I paid anywhere near that much for my Baseruption. :\