Daily Dominaria Deck Tech: Enigmatic Binding

Every workday during the preview season for Dominaria United, Insight is taking a quick look at one deck featuring the latest cards from the upcoming set. Pioneer's Enigmatic Incarnation strategy benefits in multiple ways from the addition of a six-mana removal that costs as little as one mana!

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It's an enchantment deck centered around a –like card in its namesake, . Each end step it allows you to sacrifice an enchantment to search a creature that costs one mana more. This gives the deck flexibility in finding whatever threat or answer it needs at any particular moment. The range of tutor targets is huge, starting for example at to draw a card, as a spellslinger hate card, or , which brings back the two-mana enchantment just sacrificed to the Incarnation.

It's a five-color deck that incorporates any and all cards suiting its plan. What enables its multicolored nature is threefold. First, there is , which allows you to cast spells without paying their tough cost, and multispell them on top of that. It also uses a wide selection of shock lands and, more importantly, tricycles to fix its mana. Last but not least, there is spell-based fixing in , which replaces itself and gives a land every basic land type, and with that the ability to add mana of any color.

An excellent addition from Dominaria United fits the deck perfectly from a few angles—. It's an instant-speed effect that in this deck can be played for quite cheap. Just a single tricycle reduces the price by three, at which point it's already playable. Other shock lands and tricycles further reduce the cost, potentially dropping it to a single white mana. Nylea's Presence's rules text specifically saying that a land is of every type rather than "produces mana of any color" is key as a land enchanted with it makes Binding cost one right away. As cherry on top, you can sacrifice the Binding to Incarnation to find —very nicely fitting that curve.


Enigmatic Incarnation by Will Erker, Pioneer
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