Best Enchantress Cards for Commander EDH

Enchantress is one of the oldest archetypes in Magic, dating back to Argothian Enchantress in Urza's Saga. The game plan is straightforward: play enchantments, draw cards off them, and bury your opponents in value. In Commander, the archetype has only gotten better with each passing year, picking up new draw engines, protection pieces, and win conditions that make it one of the most resilient strategies at the table.

Here are the cards that actually make enchantress tick in EDH, from the draw engines that keep your hand full to the finishers that close out games.

The draw engines

These are the backbone of any enchantress deck. Without them, you're just playing overcosted permanents. With them, every enchantment replaces itself (or better).

Sythis, Harvest's Hand

for a 1/2 that draws a card and gains a life whenever you cast an enchantment. Sythis, Harvest's Hand is the best enchantress commander by a wide margin and one of the best enchantress effects ever printed. Two mana means she comes down early, and the life gain adds up fast when you're chaining three or four enchantments per turn. She's also an enchantment creature herself, which matters for cards like Eidolon of Blossoms and Setessan Champion.

If you're building Selesnya enchantress, Sythis should probably be leading the deck.

Argothian Enchantress

The original. Argothian Enchantress costs

and draws you a card whenever you cast an enchantment spell. She has shroud, which means she dodges targeted removal entirely. No Swords to Plowshares, no Path to Exile, no Beast Within. Your opponents need a board wipe to get rid of her, and even then you've probably already drawn four or five cards off her.

The downside is that shroud also means you can't target her with your own auras or equipment. That's rarely a problem in practice since you're not trying to suit her up. She's there to draw cards, and she does that job better than almost anything else in the archetype.

Enchantress's Presence

Enchantress's Presence is a three-mana enchantment that draws you a card whenever you cast an enchantment spell. Being an enchantment itself is a real advantage here. It triggers other enchantress effects when it enters, it's harder to remove than a creature, and it survives board wipes that would take out your Argothian Enchantress or Mesa Enchantress.

Run this in every enchantress deck. No exceptions.

Setessan Champion

Setessan Champion draws a card and gets a +1/+1 counter whenever an enchantment enters the battlefield under your control. Two things worth noting: first, it triggers on enter, not cast. That means tokens from Sigil of the Empty Throne and enchantments coming back from the graveyard still draw you cards. Second, she grows. Fast. In an enchantress deck, she's regularly a 6/6 or 7/7 by the time she attacks, which gives you a backup win condition on a card that's already pulling its weight as a draw engine.

Eidolon of Blossoms

Eidolon of Blossoms is an enchantment creature for

that draws you a card whenever an enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, including itself. So at worst, it replaces itself. At best, it's drawing you two or three cards per turn cycle.

The constellation trigger (enter, not cast) gives it the same advantage as Setessan Champion. Anything that puts enchantments onto the battlefield, like Replenish or Open the Vaults, becomes a massive draw engine with Eidolon out.

Mesa Enchantress and Satyr Enchanter

These two fill essentially the same role. Mesa Enchantress costs

and Satyr Enchanter costs , both drawing a card whenever you cast an enchantment spell. They're not exciting, but redundancy matters in Commander. The more draw engines you have, the more consistently you'll chain enchantments together and keep your hand stocked.

Protection and tutors

Drawing cards means nothing if your board keeps getting blown up. These cards keep your enchantments alive.

Sterling Grove

Sterling Grove gives all your other enchantments shroud for just

. That alone would make it playable. But it also has a sacrifice ability that lets you search your library for any enchantment and put it on top. Need a specific answer? Need your win condition? Sterling Grove finds it while protecting everything else in the meantime.

This card is absurdly good and somehow still relatively affordable. It should be in every green-white enchantress deck.

Destiny Spinner

Destiny Spinner is a two-mana enchantment creature that makes your creature and enchantment spells uncounterable. In a format where blue players love to hold up Counterspell and Fierce Guardianship, this is a huge deal. Your draw engines resolve. Your finishers resolve. Your entire game plan just works.

She also has an activated ability that turns lands into creatures, which is a reasonable backup plan if the game goes long.

Greater Auramancy

Greater Auramancy gives all your other enchantments and all creatures with auras shroud. It's similar to Sterling Grove but without the tutor ability and at a slightly higher price tag (both mana and dollars). If you're running a lot of aura-based strategies, this becomes even better since it protects the creatures you're suiting up.

Sphere of Safety

Sphere of Safety taxes your opponents for each enchantment you control just to attack you. In a deck that routinely has eight to twelve enchantments on the battlefield, this usually shuts down combat entirely. Nobody's paying 10 mana per creature to swing at you when there are other targets at the table.

It costs five mana, which is on the expensive side for a card that doesn't draw cards or win the game by itself. But the breathing room it buys you is often the difference between assembling your win condition and getting run over.

Win conditions

You've drawn half your deck. Your board is full of enchantments. Now what?

Sigil of the Empty Throne

Sigil of the Empty Throne creates a 4/4 flying Angel token whenever you cast an enchantment spell. Five mana is a lot, but once it's down, every enchantment you cast comes with a free flyer. Cast three enchantments in a turn? That's 12 power in the air. And since each of those enchantments is also drawing you cards off your enchantress effects, you're pulling ahead on every axis at once.

This is the classic enchantress finisher and it still gets the job done.

Hallowed Haunting

Hallowed Haunting creates Spirit tokens with power and toughness equal to the number of enchantments you control whenever you cast an enchantment spell. If you control seven or more enchantments, those Spirits also have flying and vigilance. In practice, you're making 8/8 or 10/10 flying vigilance tokens every time you cast an enchantment.

It costs four mana and it's arguably better than Sigil of the Empty Throne in most enchantress builds. The tokens scale with your board state, and the flying/vigilance threshold is easy to hit.

Archon of Sun's Grace

Archon of Sun's Grace creates a 2/2 flying Pegasus token with lifelink whenever an enchantment enters the battlefield under your control. Constellation means it triggers off tokens and reanimation, not just casting. The lifelink on the tokens adds up quickly and keeps you alive while you build toward a lethal board.

Overwhelming Splendor

If you want to take a more controlling approach, Overwhelming Splendor turns a single opponent's creatures into 1/1s with no abilities. It costs

, which is steep, but in enchantress you're drawing enough cards to find it and often have enough mana to cast it. Absolutely backbreaking against creature-heavy decks.

Ramp and recursion

Enchantress needs mana to keep the engine going. These cards accelerate you while staying on-theme.

Wild Growth and Utopia Sprawl

One-mana enchantment-based ramp. Wild Growth and Utopia Sprawl are both enchantments that tap for extra mana, so they trigger all your enchantress draw effects. They're strictly better than extra lands in this archetype because they're also cantrips with Sythis or Argothian Enchantress on the field.

Sanctum Weaver

Sanctum Weaver is an enchantment creature that taps for mana equal to the number of enchantments you control. In a deck with eight enchantments on the battlefield, that's eight mana off a single creature. It gets out of hand fast and often enables turns where you're casting four or five spells in a row.

Replenish and Open the Vaults

If someone manages to blow up your board, Replenish puts all enchantments from your graveyard onto the battlefield. One card, full recovery. Open the Vaults does the same thing for all players (and artifacts too), which is riskier but still worth running as a backup.

Both of these are incredibly powerful with constellation triggers, since each returning enchantment triggers Eidolon of Blossoms, Setessan Champion, and whatever else you have on the field.

Honorable mentions

A few more cards that deserve a slot depending on your build:

• Mirari's Wake doubles your mana and pumps your creatures. It does everything enchantress wants.
• Privileged Position gives all your permanents hexproof. Pair it with Sterling Grove for near-total protection.
• Solitary Confinement with enough draw engines makes you practically untouchable. You skip your draw step and discard a card each upkeep, but when you're drawing three or four extra cards per turn, that's a nonissue.
• Destiny Spinner makes your key spells uncounterable, which matters a lot against blue-heavy pods.
• Ethereal Armor turns any creature into a threat for one white mana. Not the most common enchantress pick, but it closes games when your board is stacked.

Picking a commander

The best enchantress commanders right now:

• Sythis, Harvest's Hand is the most efficient option. Two mana, draws cards, gains life. Hard to beat.
• Tuvasa the Sunlit opens up Bant colors, giving you access to blue for counterspells and card draw. She also draws on your first enchantment each turn and grows from enchantments you control.
• Anikthea, Hand of Erebos adds black to the mix and brings enchantments back from the graveyard as creatures. She's the best option if you want a grindier, more recursive approach.
• Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice is a Voltron-enchantress hybrid in mono-white. She tutors auras directly onto herself whenever you cast one, which is a completely different angle from traditional enchantress but very effective.

Enchantress rewards you for doing something you're already doing in Commander: playing permanents. The draw engines keep your hand full, the protection pieces keep your board intact, and the win conditions turn all that accumulated value into lethal damage. It's one of the most consistent and satisfying archetypes in the format.