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Anikthea, Hand of Erebos
WBGAbzanLegendary Enchantment Creature — Demigod

Anikthea, Hand of Erebos

Mana value5Rank#5,039
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The Commander

Menace

Other enchantment creatures you control have menace.

Whenever Anikthea enters or attacks, exile up to one target non-Aura enchantment card from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 3/3 black Zombie creature in addition to its other types.

Guide

Gameplan

Fill your graveyard with powerful enchantments, then use Anikthea's enter/attack triggers to repeatedly reanimate them as 3/3 Zombie enchantment creature copies. Each trigger snowballs value and a wide, menacing board, and because the copies are enchantment creatures they all gain menace and feed your enchantress engines. You grind opponents out with overwhelming card advantage and beat down with an evasive token army.

Strengths

  • Repeatable, hard-to-interact value engine that turns dead enchantments into 3/3 bodies every combat
  • Reanimates from graveyard so it dodges much creature removal and benefits from self-mill
  • Excellent in Abzan colors with deep enchantress and recursion support
  • Token copies are full enchantment creatures, triggering constellation, enchantress, and sacrifice payoffs
  • Built-in menace plus team menace makes blocking and stax hard to assemble against you

Weaknesses

  • Graveyard hate (Rest in Peace, Bojuka Bog) shuts off the engine entirely
  • Needs setup turns to load the yard before Anikthea becomes powerful
  • Commander-dependent; without her on the battlefield the deck stalls
  • Targets only non-Aura enchantment cards, limiting which permanents you can copy
  • Board wipes can be devastating since the strategy goes wide

Key Cards

  • Doomwake Giant — Reanimating it as an enchantment creature creates a recurring board wipe against tokens and small creatures every attack.
  • Sun Titan — Not an enchantment, but token copy targets must be enchantments—instead use it as a recursion staple is wrong; skip.
  • Starfield of Nyx — Turns all your enchantments into creatures, fueling Anikthea's anthem and recurring dead enchantments from your graveyard.
  • Enchantress's Presence — Each enchantment-creature token you make and every enchantment you cast draws cards, snowballing the engine.
  • Eidolon of Blossoms — Constellation card draw triggers off every token copy and enchantment you play, refilling your hand.
  • Underworld Breach — Helps reuse exiled and graveyard pieces and enables explosive combo turns alongside cheap enchantments.
  • Ashnod's Altar — Sacrifices token copies for mana and recasts Anikthea or fuels aristocrat combos and reanimation loops.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana and ramp (Sol Ring, Smothering Tithe, Wild Growth) to deploy Anikthea early, and prioritize self-mill and discard outlets like Stitcher's Supplier and Buried Alive to stock impactful enchantments fast. Include protection (Heroic Intervention, Teferi's Protection) and recursion for Anikthea, then add powerful enchantment payoffs like Smothering Tithe, Trouble in Pairs, and combo lines with Ashnod's Altar plus drain effects to push toward a tighter, faster kill.

Core Cards

  • Verduran Enchantress
  • Abundance
  • Temple of Plenty
  • Dreadhorde Invasion
  • Tainted Wood
  • Selesnya Sanctuary
  • Love Song of Night and Day
  • Sungrass Prairie
  • Nessian Wanderer
  • Cunning Rhetoric
  • Omen of the Sun
  • Setessan Champion

Seeded from a single deck — rates appear once more public decks exist.

Win Conditions

  • ▸Swing wide with menace-enabled enchantment creature tokens for lethal combat damage
  • ▸Recurring Doomwake Giant or drain enchantments grind opponents out incrementally
  • ▸Aristocrat drains via Blood Artist effects sacrificing token copies
  • ▸Value engines bury the table in card advantage until a midrange beatdown closes

Archetypes

  • Enchantress — Anikthea creates and copies enchantments constantly, maximizing constellation and card-draw payoffs.
  • Reanimator — Her trigger is repeatable graveyard recursion, rewarding self-mill and discard outlets to stock powerful enchantments.
  • Tokens / Go-Wide — Every trigger makes a 3/3 menace body, building an evasive enchantment-creature army with anthem support.
  • Aristocrats — Disposable 3/3 enchantment tokens feed sacrifice outlets and drain effects while being easily rebuilt.

Combos

  • Anikthea, Hand of Erebos + Three Blind Mice + Doubling Season

    → Infinite copies of tokens you control, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite ETB

  • Anikthea, Hand of Erebos + Three Blind Mice + Barbara Wright

    → Infinite ETB, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite copies of a specific enchantment

  • Anikthea, Hand of Erebos + Three Blind Mice + Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider

    → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite ETB, Infinite copies of a specific enchantment

  • Anikthea, Hand of Erebos + Oblivion Ring + Life Finds a Way + Parallel Lives

    → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB

  • Anikthea, Hand of Erebos + Oblivion Ring + Life Finds a Way + Doubling Season

    → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB

Combos via Commander Spellbook.

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