Every workday while the set is new, Insight is taking a quick look at another deck featuring cards from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. Sometimes a set gives birth to a fresh Standard archetype through the combination of old and new material. Other times a functional deck comes pretty much prepackaged within the set's bounds.
It happened that way when Ikoria introduced us to the self-contained world of cycling synergies, and it appears the same will be true for "enchantments matter" now.
Despite not being enchantments themselves, and are our battering rams, dropping early and getting bigger and bigger as we deploy our outer cards. Early enablers include the self-replacing and the discounter .
was a precursor to this strategy and can now work as a win condition, joined by the monster that pops out from the third chapter of . Another strong payoff that was already there is , which can take over a game fairly quickly if resolved. and make up our removal suite, while is able to dig for three quarters of the cards in our deck.
The example list below was conceived by Jim Davis and splashes black for only five cards, so it's easy to customize into a Selesnya build. Other cards to consider, especially if we dispense with the black elements, are the lord and the nonenchantment . One can double the triggers of our Sagas, the other accelerates their chapters and then brings any one enchantment back to hand upon death, to retrigger its various effects.
is a Saga-like enchantment that could strengthen the aggro angle of our deck. Proper Sagas with powerful effects we might want to take for a ride include and . In a Kamigawa environment where the futuristic feeling takes center stage in the promotional material, this is a deck that definitely looks at the past, in more ways than one.
| Abzan Enchantments by Jim Davis, Standard |
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