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Swords to Plowshares
Tier rogue

Wg

Featured list~$2300Dutch Nationals 2024 @ Leeuwarden (Netherlands)

Overview

"This green-white build turns enchantments into raw card advantage, with Argothian Enchantress and Enchantress's Presence drawing cards every time a Sterling Grove, Wild Growth, or Seal of Cleansing hits the table. Sylvan Library, Exploration, and Mirri's Guile sculpt explosive starts, while Solitary Confinement and Elephant Grass buy time behind a resilient lock. Replenish then snaps the whole web of enchantments back from the graveyard, and Words of War or Sacred Mesa converts the engine into a kill."

Game Plan

GW Enchantress Control spends its early turns building a permanent-based permission layer: Seal of Cleansing and Aura of Silence tax and pre-empt the opponent's key spells, while Sylvan Library sculpts the hand turn by turn. Sterling Grove is the connective tissue of the strategy: it tutors for whichever enchantment the board demands and grants all other enchantments shroud from targeted removal, letting the deck assemble its lock pieces without fear. Once Humility lands alongside Powder Keg or Wrath of God, every opposing creature becomes a 1/1 that can be swept at will, and Ivory Mask or Worship seals off the remaining avenues of damage, creating a near-impenetrable fortress.

The win condition emerges from within that fortress: Mobilization converts surplus mana into a stream of vigilant 1/1 Soldier tokens that accumulate into an overwhelming board presence. Humility's continuous effect sets all creatures to 1/1, so the tokens are unaffected relative to everything else, and their vigilance lets them attack while still blocking. Swords to Plowshares handles anything Humility does not neutralize cleanly. When the opponent disrupts the enchantment web through mass removal or discard, Replenish reloads the entire graveyard onto the battlefield in a single four-mana burst, often reconstructing Humility, Sterling Grove, Mobilization, and the protection shell simultaneously. Spirit Mirror provides a secondary win angle that is essentially immune to creature-based interaction, generating a Reflection token that cannot be traded away as long as the enchantment survives.

Key Cards

Core engine & flex

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Sebastien Dieudonne

Sebastien Dieudonne

TCG

Mainboard (60)

$2147
Instant (4)
$32.20
Sorcery (6)
$681
3Replenish
$6473W
3Wrath of God
$34.412WW
Artifact (3)
$228
Enchantment (23)
$340
Land (24)
$865

Sideboard (15)

$152
1Aura Shards
$30.001GW
1Humility
$67.832WW
1Story Circle
$0.451WW
4Warmth
$10.721W
Est. Total$2300

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Sébastien Dieudonne

Sébastien Dieudonne

TCG

Mainboard (60)

$3540
Instant (4)
$32.20
Sorcery (3)
$647
3Replenish
$6473W
Enchantment (31)
$577
1Aura Shards
$30.001GW
2Hobble
$0.522W
4Humility
$2712WW
1Ivory Mask
$1.652WW
4Land Tax
$105W
4Mobilization
$6.482W
1Spirit Mirror
$1.362WW
Land (22)
$2283

Sideboard (15)

$119
1Aura Shards
$30.001GW
4Defense Grid
$68.242
1Ivory Mask
$1.652WW
4Warmth
$10.721W
Est. Total$3658

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Archetype Anatomy

Based on 2 decks with known dates2021-11-07 to 2024-11-03

Warning: The decklists analyzed for this matrix are over 6 months old. Recent meta shifts may not be reflected here.

Mana Base

Average23lands
Median24lands
Range2224lands
Spells37.0avg non-land
Based on 2 decks (All-time)

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Sideboard Anatomy

core Sideboard Options(>80%)

Aura Shards
100%
1.0x
Karmic Justice
100%
1.0x
Tormod'S Crypt
100%
4.0x
Warmth
100%
4.0x

flex Sideboard Options(30-80%)

City Of Solitude
73.8%
1.0x
Elephant Grass
73.8%
1.0x
Humility
73.8%
1.0x
Sacred Ground
73.8%
1.0x
Story Circle
73.8%
1.0x

fringe Sideboard Options(<30%)

Defense Grid
26.2%
4.0x
Ivory Mask
26.2%
1.0x

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