Sphere of Safety is more expensive - 5 cmc - but in an enchantments deck it can make it functionally impossible for players to attack. I recently played a game where the last remaining other player had to pay 11 per creature to attack me. He managed it by saccing 74 tokens to Ashnod's Altar, but it cost him 176 mana to kill me.
I used enchantment copiers and had 6 sphere of safetys in play with a total of 12 enchantments, one giving my enchantments shroud aswell..... let's just say they won't let me play that deck again
@@dirkdevos5701 found it. Aurification Whenever a creature deals damage to you, put a gold counter on it. Each creature with a gold counter on it is a Wall in addition to its other creature types and has defender. (Those creatures can't attack.) When Aurification leaves the battlefield, remove all gold counters from all creatures.
Norn's Annex is a personal favorite of mine; they either have to be playing white or paying life to attack me, which speeds up the game if everyone's dropping 2 life per monster
Dr. Kuhn It can be outright impossible to attack through for a (nonwhite) token deck. It doesn’t matter if you’re gonna hit for more if you can’t even pay to hit because your life is so low
I play in a meta with a Yuriko deck and a Slimefoot deck, and our life totals get insanely low insanely fast and then we end up duking it out at 10 life. It's really absurd, but Norn's Annex is my way of taking their totals back down.
So I Should combo Norn's Annex with Authority of Consul (tap all creatures enter play and gain 1 life)? Toss in Smothering Tithe and I'll make everybody hate playing with me :p
And to this comment, I imagine a tribe of Pillows, hunting together in the Amazon, building large fires for tribal dances, and painting each other's pillow cases before going to war...
One of the most potent options for the "no damage" category is Glacial Chasm. Like Solitary Confinement, it comes with the caveat that you need some sort of engine going to make the card work, but it isn't too difficult. Some players don't bother with land destruction at all and find themselves completely unable to hurt you through Glacial Chasm. I've had a lot of EDH games in which at least two opponents just moved their focus away from me entirely because Glacial Chasm made me a difficult target.
Pillowfort cards, otherwise known as cards I’m immediately adding to my decks. Seriously though, I have Ghostly Prison and Propaganda in a Curse deck and I love it.
I've got a 5c Korona Curse deck...I started out with pillowfort but ironically it just didn't work...now I just go balls to wall with throwing as many curses onto one person as poss, let that person die... then replenish all my curses onto the next person and let the other two kill each other with my Korona..it's the only deck I play where I feel obligated to apologise to the first person who dies...cos I always cause it and they ALWAYS feel miserable as they see the Curses pile up and up...
I was literally just searching for pillowfort cards in blue and black to throw into my Dragonlord Silumgar deck! Awesome coincidence that this vid came out today!
My favorite card to play alongside pillowfort stuff is War's Toll. They can either attack you or play any spells, they have to attack with stuff you don't want to attack with and they don't have mana for instants.
This is definitely a list of some the best pillow fort cards! I've had almost all of these in a deck at some point. Here's a list of other cards I like to consider when building a Pillow Fort deck. They vary in power and ability but I still like to consider them. Lightmine Field Powerstone Minefield Urza's Armor Guardian Seraph Protection of the Hekma Hedron-Field Purists Web of Inertia War Tax Teferi's Moat Stormtide Leviathan Reverence Peacekeeper Norn's Annex Baird, Steward of Argive Archangel of Tithes Angelic Arbiter Thunderstaff Orbs of Warding Maze of Ith Ith, High Arcanist Gomazoa Guard Gomazoa Fog Bank Constant Mists Ajani Steadfast No Mercy Mystic Barrier Fight or Flight Humility Flooded Woodlands
I'm surprised you didn't mention Peacekeeper. Its like Blazing Archon, but it only costs 2 colorless and one white with an upkeep of paying one white and one colorless or you sacrifice it. Its a sleeper pillowfort card you don't see that much, and you can drop it turn 2 or 3.
You forgot War Tax 2U enchantment XU: creatures can't attack this turn unless their controllers pays X for each attacking creature. It's budget and I love it
My favorite card to accompany Solitary Confinement is Psychic Possession. You're already skipping your draw step, so now you draw at least one card at your enchanted opponent's draw step and very possibly more each turn. It's a match made in pillowfort heaven!
I think Sarkhan the Masterless is a good "Red" way of doing this type of effect as well. Especially if you're running a dragon-themed deck. It doesn't say "unless you pay ____" on it, but it does deter attacks.
I have a captain sisay enchtantress/pillow fort deck that uses almost all of these. A few I think you should consider: Darien, King of Kjeldor Spear of Heliod Both of this are aa bit clunky bur you will notice that most of the pillow fort cards are more effective against wide board presence and less so against big board presence. A lot of games someone who sticks an ulamog or darksteel colossus can pay five or six everyturn and just kill you. Darien scales to midrange and big aggro very well; one hit will always produce enough 1/1's to trade with their board. It's also key for mitagating annihilator, edicts, etc. The spear has synergies with token decks and darien specifically as well as a very good targeted removal ability. It's mana intensive and requires a lot of white but it can do something that a lot of the other pillow for cards cannot. It is also both an artifact and an enchantment for additional synergies. These can fill in some of the gaps that other pillow fort cards can leave (both are also tutor targets for sisay).
Some additional cards I run in my pillow-fort deck that I think are pretty good but weren't listed here include Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts (destroy creatures that hit you and make future blockers, she's also a great blocker), Righteous Aura (prevent damage), Aurification (turn creatures that hit you into walls), Dissipation Field (bounce things that hit you), and No Mercy (destroy creatures that hit you). And I feel like due to the fact that so many of these pillow-fort cards are enchantments Greater Auramancy (give your other enchantments shroud) and Karmic Justice (blow up one of their things if they blow up one of your things) deserve an honorary mention at least even though they do not pillow-fort directly. There's some great Pillow-fort lands too! Some of these are cards like Kor Haven (budget Maze of Ith), Maze of Ith (less budget Maze of Ith lol), Glacial Chasm (which can be a real annoyance for your opponents and stops all damage not just combat), and Hall of Heliod's Generosity (which is a great way to make your pillow fort waaaay more annoying to get rid of). Also, it wasn't mentioned but Koskun Falls is a world enchantment which isn't usually relevant but does make it a little more risky to play. Due to the "World Rule (420.5i), if someone else plays a world enchantment yours goes away. With that on top of needing creatures in play it's definitely a lot of downside for a propaganda/ghostly prison effect, I would usually steer clear of that one unless you are in mono black and need that effect as there are so many other alternatives in other colors. Just kind of sucks having an enchantment that can get blow out by a creature board wipe (especially as pillow-fort decks often want to be clearing the board repeatedly).
Goading is great!! Disrupt Decorum is a one-time effect, but it does serious work. Additionally, there's Dread in black to destroy creatures that damage you.
Aurification: 2WW. This is also a penalty attack enchantment. Whenever a creature deals damage to you (not just combat damage), put a gold counter on it. As long as it has this counter, it becomes a wall and gains defender. With all the ways white has to gain life, you can take the damage, but then those creatures cannot attack again. Makes people think twice about attacking you, because they won't be able to attack anyone else.
I had a buddy who ran an abzan pillow fort, featured almost all the cards you listed (minus the off-color and newer cards) plus junktu spikes AND meek stone. it was less of a fort and more of a prison.
My favorite is Isperia, Supreme Judge, which is even less pillowfort-y than the last group, but she lets me do my favorite thing in Magic - draw cards - for each attacking creature.
One of my favorites is Web of Inertia. It’s great early game because people won’t have much if anything in the graveyard to exile and especially great if you’ve got something like War’s Ashiok to exile graveyards
Forbidding Spirit is a 3 mana creature with an etb that does the ghostly prison effect until your next turn. The advantage of that is even if it's killed the effect persists. Probably best in a Teshar or Brago deck where you can get that effect repeatability.
On the matter of Collective Restraint, the Wastes count as another basic land type. This means that if someone doesn't mind adding colorless lands without effects to their decks, they could add another point to the cost that the opponents would have to pay without adding another color to the deck. It also means that the maximum cost that other players would have to pay is six mana instead of five.
Something not mentioned in this video is Sarkhan the Masterless... Its static allows your dragons to ping creatures that attack in your direction... And its -3 allows you to have a dragon to boot... It's so good on Dragon tribal decks, as people won't attack you to eliminate you from the game if you're being ganged up early... It could also be used with effects like Torbran so the ping becomes a bolt, which is much better...
Dueling Grounds and Silent Arbiter are excellent if you have a creature with menace, since it's essentially unblockable. Green has plenty of those, and Tromokratis hits like a house in monoblue
War Tax 2{U} Enchantment. You can pay blue and X and creatures can't attack you this turn unless their controller pays X for each creature. A little expensive because you've got to hold mana up, but can buy you turns against aggressive decks if you do.
The black enchantment “no mercy” is a good deterrent. No mercy {2BB}/4CMC Enchantment “Whenever a creature successfully deals combat damage to you, destroy it.”
Rune-tail, kitsune ascendant 2W 2/2 , in commander you can automatically flip it cause requirement is having more than 30 hp, when you flip it it prevents all damage that would be dealt to your creatures, so its still a nice protection
Hi Mitch, thanks for the vid as I LOVE pillowforting especially with enchantments! Here is a list of pillowfort(y) cards that I run in my Tuvasa Enchantress.deck (this is prob controversial but I regard anything that slows opponent s down from attacking/damaging you as pillowfort - other peeps would prob regard some of them them as "hate" cards) Kismet Worship Aurification Elephant Grass Dissipation Field Delaying Shield Solitary Confinement Aura of Silence Solemnity (combine it with Decree of Silence and lots of other two card combos) Glacial Chasm Choke Phyrexian Unlife Energy Field (combos with Wheel and Sun and Moon and RIP) Rest in Peace Force Bubble Sphere of Safety Sterling Grove Greater Auramancy Privileged Position (soft lock with the two above) Stony Silence City of Solitude Destiny Spinner Dream Tides
A new one I have is Darien, King of Kjeldor with any "creature etc gain 1 life spell". If you only have one such effect, you just perpetually stay at the same life total, if you have multiple, it can get ridiculous. Had a real fun game with my monowhite daxos lifegain against aristocrats which was me just gaining life rather than taking it and stopping the Sanguine Bond/exquisite blood combo
My favorite is Solitary Confinement, in my Reyhan/Ravos deck. Especially when Ravos is in play, you always have that extra creature from your graveyard every turn to pay the discard cost of Confinement. I still want to play a black enchantment deck with hissing miasma, blood reckoning, marchesas decree, and revenge of ravens.
I feel like it would be really fun to load up your opponents with 1/1 tokens, play all the cards at the end of this video, and then force them to attack you. Also, the very first commander game my brother ever played, he dropped a Sandstorm Convergence against my Ur Dragon deck. That was a very quick game after that.
I use a few of these (ghostly prison, propaganda, collective restraint and Norns annex) in my atraxa voltron deck along side brave the sands. With ring of three (well infinite with atraxa) wishes to tutor up what I need. The way around attack tax is to attack with creatures that spawn creatures that are attacking.
In the same vein as dueling grounds and silent arbiter, mirri weatherlight duelist is good. She is slightly more aggressive but if you have Glare of Subdual then you can tap the creature you definitely don't want attacking you and make it so that they can only attack with a single other creature
I usually throw at least one of these in a deck no matter what the goal is, sometimes a single timely ghostly prison can stop you from getting stomped to death by a hoard of elves or tokens
I run a Gwafa Pullow Fort deck that runs a lot of these cards, plus Peacekeeper, enchanted evening, and Willbreaker. "All yer creaturez are belong to uz!"
BTW, I know this card isn't a pillowfort, but 2 (w) Grand Abolisher is a nice way to stop people from countering what you play on your turn since it stops all spells and abilities of your opponent from activating on your turn
Norns annex is pretty good too! Either they pay two life or one white mana for each creature. It’s nearly killed people when they don’t have white in their deck.
Lightmine Field is a good one, stops token swarms in their tracks. Energy Field is another good one, pairs exceptionally well with Rest in Peace. If you want to be really mean then Energy Field + Rest in Peace + Dovescape + Guile. Good luck to your opponents doing much about that
I love running dissipation field in a lot of my decks, same with aurification cuz nothing is funnier than turning someone’s 12/12 beat stick into an 0/4 wall.. 😂
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin. All colors and most of these are enchantments which is good w Sphere of Safety and anything that's removed can be recurred
While not exactly pillow fort I would include grave pact and death pits of wrath they can make opponent think twice about attacking, death pits goes well with first strike and double strike creatures as well as plinkers. Puting firewhip on eater of the dead is a fun way to use death pits people are less likely to attack you when you can one sided board wipe at any time.so in a way it can be considered pillow fort
In the first category, you missed archangel of tithe. But my favorite pillowfort card is sun droplet, quite effective in multiplayer, especially if you can benefit from the life gain like in my heliod sun-crowned.
Stoic Angel is another good card that works in a similar way as dueling grounds and silent arbiter. I run all three of those in an exalted voltron deck.
I won't mention Moat, but what about Teferi's Moat from Invasion? 3WU for an Enchantment that when it enters play you choose a color and creatures of that color can't attack?
You know I would also add another category: 'Anywhere but here' adding cards like: Edric, spymaster of threst, Crown of doom, Bloodthirsty blade, Disrupt decorum, Gisela, blade of goldnight or a very recent one; agitator ant. These cards don't exactly disincentives attacks against you but incentiveses attacks on your opponents.
@@Turn2Ugin I have also not really used it but I mostly play 1v1 so I can't really play these kinds of cards. I think this card has more potential than most people think. If your sorceries have flash you can equip it to each player's strongest or most problematic creature.
Sphere of Safety is more expensive - 5 cmc - but in an enchantments deck it can make it functionally impossible for players to attack. I recently played a game where the last remaining other player had to pay 11 per creature to attack me. He managed it by saccing 74 tokens to Ashnod's Altar, but it cost him 176 mana to kill me.
In my Enchantment deck, Sphere is always my number one target to copy with Estrid's Invocation, Mirrormade, etc.
Add in enchanted evening. Its an enchantment that makes all permanents enchantments.
@@devon0711 And if you want a combo that results in a draw, also add in Ajani's Chosen
hahaha, i love commander
I used enchantment copiers and had 6 sphere of safetys in play with a total of 12 enchantments, one giving my enchantments shroud aswell..... let's just say they won't let me play that deck again
No mercy {2}{B}{B} Enchantment: Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.
I think my sen triplets needs this card...
And don't forget Dread, the creature version!
White version turns them into enchantments and r no longer creatures (i think).
@@adammohammed2185 which one is that?
@@dirkdevos5701 found it.
Aurification
Whenever a creature deals damage to you, put a gold counter on it.
Each creature with a gold counter on it is a Wall in addition to its other creature types and has defender. (Those creatures can't attack.)
When Aurification leaves the battlefield, remove all gold counters from all creatures.
Norn's Annex is a personal favorite of mine; they either have to be playing white or paying life to attack me, which speeds up the game if everyone's dropping 2 life per monster
Late game it wouldn't be much of a deterrent, either because someone will just blow it up or hit you for way more than the tax is hitting them.
Dr. Kuhn It can be outright impossible to attack through for a (nonwhite) token deck. It doesn’t matter if you’re gonna hit for more if you can’t even pay to hit because your life is so low
I play in a meta with a Yuriko deck and a Slimefoot deck, and our life totals get insanely low insanely fast and then we end up duking it out at 10 life. It's really absurd, but Norn's Annex is my way of taking their totals back down.
It's become super affordable due to being reprinted in Mystery Boosters
So I Should combo Norn's Annex with Authority of Consul (tap all creatures enter play and gain 1 life)? Toss in Smothering Tithe and I'll make everybody hate playing with me :p
Awwww, pillowfort is such a cute way of saying it! Time for pillowfort tribal!
And to this comment, I imagine a tribe of Pillows, hunting together in the Amazon, building large fires for tribal dances, and painting each other's pillow cases before going to war...
*laughs in Angus Mackenzie*
I am so hype to hide from my opponent's... WHILE SAVING MONEY!
more like hiding from expenses, can relate :)
Social distancing to the max
Propaganda: Cough cough...
One of the most potent options for the "no damage" category is Glacial Chasm. Like Solitary Confinement, it comes with the caveat that you need some sort of engine going to make the card work, but it isn't too difficult. Some players don't bother with land destruction at all and find themselves completely unable to hurt you through Glacial Chasm. I've had a lot of EDH games in which at least two opponents just moved their focus away from me entirely because Glacial Chasm made me a difficult target.
Yes! I run this in Hidetsugu 😁
Even without an engine it keeps enemies from attacking you for 2-3 turns before it matters.
Combine with solemnity, cumulative upkeep cent increase.
One of my favorites because its a little different is Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts where if a creature deals combat damage to you, destroy it.
Pillowfort cards, otherwise known as cards I’m immediately adding to my decks. Seriously though, I have Ghostly Prison and Propaganda in a Curse deck and I love it.
I've got a 5c Korona Curse deck...I started out with pillowfort but ironically it just didn't work...now I just go balls to wall with throwing as many curses onto one person as poss, let that person die... then replenish all my curses onto the next person and let the other two kill each other with my Korona..it's the only deck I play where I feel obligated to apologise to the first person who dies...cos I always cause it and they ALWAYS feel miserable as they see the Curses pile up and up...
I was literally just searching for pillowfort cards in blue and black to throw into my Dragonlord Silumgar deck! Awesome coincidence that this vid came out today!
Never been this early before..Hello! Love checking your channel when I wake up, always a great way to start my morning :)
This sounds good.
Yo boros man, I haven't seen you in a while how ya doing.
You have not paid your taxes, Boros Man.
Hey Boros man you pay the 2
@@paracosa Orzhov-man.
Does does the stuff orzhov does
He drains life, quite a lot
Plays things that tax us all
Look out
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@@Fishcrab I'm good, how are you?
Missing Web of Inertia from the list, great underrated card!
Would you look at that, Oloro just fell out of my binder.
*laughs in Angus Mackenzie*
It wasn't amusing the first time you commented this. It continues to not be amusing every subsequent time as well.
My favorite card to play alongside pillowfort stuff is War's Toll. They can either attack you or play any spells, they have to attack with stuff you don't want to attack with and they don't have mana for instants.
Thanks for all the great content!
I love this, was looking to make pillow fort Kenrith deck, just in time
This is definitely a list of some the best pillow fort cards! I've had almost all of these in a deck at some point. Here's a list of other cards I like to consider when building a Pillow Fort deck. They vary in power and ability but I still like to consider them.
Lightmine Field
Powerstone Minefield
Urza's Armor
Guardian Seraph
Protection of the Hekma
Hedron-Field Purists
Web of Inertia
War Tax
Teferi's Moat
Stormtide Leviathan
Reverence
Peacekeeper
Norn's Annex
Baird, Steward of Argive
Archangel of Tithes
Angelic Arbiter
Thunderstaff
Orbs of Warding
Maze of Ith
Ith, High Arcanist
Gomazoa
Guard Gomazoa
Fog Bank
Constant Mists
Ajani Steadfast
No Mercy
Mystic Barrier
Fight or Flight
Humility
Flooded Woodlands
Don't forget the ones that destroy creatures after they damage you!
Dread, Teysa envoy of ghosts, No Mercy, Vengeful Pharaoh...
I'm surprised you didn't mention Peacekeeper. Its like Blazing Archon, but it only costs 2 colorless and one white with an upkeep of paying one white and one colorless or you sacrifice it. Its a sleeper pillowfort card you don't see that much, and you can drop it turn 2 or 3.
You forgot War Tax 2U enchantment XU: creatures can't attack this turn unless their controllers pays X for each attacking creature.
It's budget and I love it
My favorite card to accompany Solitary Confinement is Psychic Possession. You're already skipping your draw step, so now you draw at least one card at your enchanted opponent's draw step and very possibly more each turn. It's a match made in pillowfort heaven!
I think Sarkhan the Masterless is a good "Red" way of doing this type of effect as well. Especially if you're running a dragon-themed deck. It doesn't say "unless you pay ____" on it, but it does deter attacks.
I have a captain sisay enchtantress/pillow fort deck that uses almost all of these. A few I think you should consider:
Darien, King of Kjeldor
Spear of Heliod
Both of this are aa bit clunky bur you will notice that most of the pillow fort cards are more effective against wide board presence and less so against big board presence. A lot of games someone who sticks an ulamog or darksteel colossus can pay five or six everyturn and just kill you.
Darien scales to midrange and big aggro very well; one hit will always produce enough 1/1's to trade with their board. It's also key for mitagating annihilator, edicts, etc.
The spear has synergies with token decks and darien specifically as well as a very good targeted removal ability. It's mana intensive and requires a lot of white but it can do something that a lot of the other pillow for cards cannot. It is also both an artifact and an enchantment for additional synergies.
These can fill in some of the gaps that other pillow fort cards can leave (both are also tutor targets for sisay).
Some additional cards I run in my pillow-fort deck that I think are pretty good but weren't listed here include Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts (destroy creatures that hit you and make future blockers, she's also a great blocker), Righteous Aura (prevent damage), Aurification (turn creatures that hit you into walls), Dissipation Field (bounce things that hit you), and No Mercy (destroy creatures that hit you). And I feel like due to the fact that so many of these pillow-fort cards are enchantments Greater Auramancy (give your other enchantments shroud) and Karmic Justice (blow up one of their things if they blow up one of your things) deserve an honorary mention at least even though they do not pillow-fort directly.
There's some great Pillow-fort lands too! Some of these are cards like Kor Haven (budget Maze of Ith), Maze of Ith (less budget Maze of Ith lol), Glacial Chasm (which can be a real annoyance for your opponents and stops all damage not just combat), and Hall of Heliod's Generosity (which is a great way to make your pillow fort waaaay more annoying to get rid of).
Also, it wasn't mentioned but Koskun Falls is a world enchantment which isn't usually relevant but does make it a little more risky to play. Due to the "World Rule (420.5i), if someone else plays a world enchantment yours goes away. With that on top of needing creatures in play it's definitely a lot of downside for a propaganda/ghostly prison effect, I would usually steer clear of that one unless you are in mono black and need that effect as there are so many other alternatives in other colors. Just kind of sucks having an enchantment that can get blow out by a creature board wipe (especially as pillow-fort decks often want to be clearing the board repeatedly).
Goading is great!! Disrupt Decorum is a one-time effect, but it does serious work. Additionally, there's Dread in black to destroy creatures that damage you.
A nice list:
Maybe Lightmine Field & Raking Canopy might be adjacent.
Aurification: 2WW. This is also a penalty attack enchantment. Whenever a creature deals damage to you (not just combat damage), put a gold counter on it. As long as it has this counter, it becomes a wall and gains defender. With all the ways white has to gain life, you can take the damage, but then those creatures cannot attack again. Makes people think twice about attacking you, because they won't be able to attack anyone else.
"Sandwurms claim even the skies above their dunes."
-Wurm doesn't have reach
He's tired from the previous jumping but still trying his best to help. cut him a break.
Sandwurm convergence + magus of the moat. Protect the later and nothing can attack you.
I had a buddy who ran an abzan pillow fort, featured almost all the cards you listed (minus the off-color and newer cards) plus junktu spikes AND meek stone. it was less of a fort and more of a prison.
My favorite is Isperia, Supreme Judge, which is even less pillowfort-y than the last group, but she lets me do my favorite thing in Magic - draw cards - for each attacking creature.
One of my favorites is Web of Inertia. It’s great early game because people won’t have much if anything in the graveyard to exile and especially great if you’ve got something like War’s Ashiok to exile graveyards
Caltrops and Deathpits will always be my favorite defensive combo.
Forbidding Spirit is a 3 mana creature with an etb that does the ghostly prison effect until your next turn. The advantage of that is even if it's killed the effect persists. Probably best in a Teshar or Brago deck where you can get that effect repeatability.
On the matter of Collective Restraint, the Wastes count as another basic land type. This means that if someone doesn't mind adding colorless lands without effects to their decks, they could add another point to the cost that the opponents would have to pay without adding another color to the deck. It also means that the maximum cost that other players would have to pay is six mana instead of five.
Strangely, no. While Wastes are a type of basic land, they don't have a basic land type. Basic land type actually refers to the subtype.
Protection of the Hekma is surprisingly legit. Hoses Nekusar and other decks that win with small creatures.
No Mercy, or the elemental incarnation Fear. Both are great "attack and see what happens" cards in black
Now I want a Pillowfort themed Deck, snuggling in and watching my enemies fight each other sounds fun
Would also love mentions on good pillow fort commanders as well. I'll add [No Mercy] and [Humility] to the list. Great content!
Something not mentioned in this video is Sarkhan the Masterless... Its static allows your dragons to ping creatures that attack in your direction... And its -3 allows you to have a dragon to boot...
It's so good on Dragon tribal decks, as people won't attack you to eliminate you from the game if you're being ganged up early... It could also be used with effects like Torbran so the ping becomes a bolt, which is much better...
Form of the dragon is another pillow fort card that synergies amazingly with sandwurm convergence to make it so creatures can’t attack you
sandwurm convergence is my pet card. I love it!
Alela and Kykar crumble to it
I think ensnaring bridge can be amazing too, when playing the right deck
Dueling Grounds and Silent Arbiter are excellent if you have a creature with menace, since it's essentially unblockable. Green has plenty of those, and Tromokratis hits like a house in monoblue
War Tax 2{U} Enchantment. You can pay blue and X and creatures can't attack you this turn unless their controller pays X for each creature. A little expensive because you've got to hold mana up, but can buy you turns against aggressive decks if you do.
Always good to see more black pillow-fort options.
The black enchantment “no mercy” is a good deterrent.
No mercy {2BB}/4CMC
Enchantment
“Whenever a creature successfully deals combat damage to you, destroy it.”
Rune-tail, kitsune ascendant 2W 2/2 , in commander you can automatically flip it cause requirement is having more than 30 hp, when you flip it it prevents all damage that would be dealt to your creatures, so its still a nice protection
Hi Mitch, thanks for the vid as I LOVE pillowforting especially with enchantments!
Here is a list of pillowfort(y) cards that I run in my Tuvasa Enchantress.deck (this is prob controversial but I regard anything that slows opponent s down from attacking/damaging you as pillowfort - other peeps would prob regard some of them them as "hate" cards)
Kismet
Worship
Aurification
Elephant Grass
Dissipation Field
Delaying Shield
Solitary Confinement
Aura of Silence
Solemnity (combine it with Decree of Silence and lots of other two card combos)
Glacial Chasm
Choke
Phyrexian Unlife
Energy Field (combos with Wheel and Sun and Moon and RIP)
Rest in Peace
Force Bubble
Sphere of Safety
Sterling Grove
Greater Auramancy
Privileged Position (soft lock with the two above)
Stony Silence
City of Solitude
Destiny Spinner
Dream Tides
Chronomantic Escape is one of my favorite cards, glad to see it made the list
I'm kinda new to Magic,
do these 'unless their controller pays X' effects stack?
Dissipation Field can lead to some fun politicking: works on more than creatures.
I really like glacial chasm, web of inertia, lightmine field and the black enchantment which says every creature is destroyed after hitting you
Wow, yet another insanely amazing video, great video quality, editing, ohh AND THE CARDS ARE FRICKING AWESOME
A new one I have is Darien, King of Kjeldor with any "creature etc gain 1 life spell". If you only have one such effect, you just perpetually stay at the same life total, if you have multiple, it can get ridiculous. Had a real fun game with my monowhite daxos lifegain against aristocrats which was me just gaining life rather than taking it and stopping the Sanguine Bond/exquisite blood combo
There's also War Tax, which can be activated at anytime to manipulate the battle.
My favorite is Solitary Confinement, in my Reyhan/Ravos deck. Especially when Ravos is in play, you always have that extra creature from your graveyard every turn to pay the discard cost of Confinement.
I still want to play a black enchantment deck with hissing miasma, blood reckoning, marchesas decree, and revenge of ravens.
Web of Inertia is a fun one used for while with graveyard hate cards 😉
Soul Snare is amazingly effective disincentive with A Ghostly Prison/ Propaganda effect also out. Keeps them from hitting you with one big creature.
I have a lot of these in my decks but some I have never seen. I will take note.
I feel like it would be really fun to load up your opponents with 1/1 tokens, play all the cards at the end of this video, and then force them to attack you.
Also, the very first commander game my brother ever played, he dropped a Sandstorm Convergence against my Ur Dragon deck. That was a very quick game after that.
Tons of these are perfect for my Thrasios Ravos Turbo Fog Alt Win-Con Deck. Epic
Back in the day I ran light of day and shifting sky and then used celestial dawn to turn my stuff all white when it worked it was fun....
Missed peacekeeper. I use it in aristocrats or reanimator strategies ;)
I use a few of these (ghostly prison, propaganda, collective restraint and Norns annex) in my atraxa voltron deck along side brave the sands. With ring of three (well infinite with atraxa) wishes to tutor up what I need.
The way around attack tax is to attack with creatures that spawn creatures that are attacking.
I have an nekusar deck all based on the "consequential damage/ life loss" theme, have all the miasma effects. Games are quick xD
You can avoid the upkeep on Elephant Grass by using something like Umbilicus or Blood Clock.
Best pillowfort card for flying tribal is none other than MUDSLIDE. Conversely, it also synergizes well with Kalamax keeping him tapped.
In the same vein as dueling grounds and silent arbiter, mirri weatherlight duelist is good. She is slightly more aggressive but if you have Glare of Subdual then you can tap the creature you definitely don't want attacking you and make it so that they can only attack with a single other creature
Mitch: The best pillowfort cards in commader
Me: Well, looks like I have to build Zur now.
I usually throw at least one of these in a deck no matter what the goal is, sometimes a single timely ghostly prison can stop you from getting stomped to death by a hoard of elves or tokens
in a similar vein to kazuul is Isperia, Supreme Judge. No payment option, but instead of making tokens, you get to draw cards.
Dueling Grounds and Crawlspace were some of my MVPs in my Uril deck. Give him first strike and vigilance and bam they'll never get through
I made a Kazuul deck titled "Blood for the Blood God" and oh man is that a fun deck to play.
Best video ever and I have only seen the title
I run a Gwafa Pullow Fort deck that runs a lot of these cards, plus Peacekeeper, enchanted evening, and Willbreaker. "All yer creaturez are belong to uz!"
Regarding Collective restraint.
Be so tempted to throw in a Wastes to have the potential to tick that up to 6 mana to attack.
Although Wastes is a basic land it doesn't have a basic land type. It doesn't count toward domain.
wastes while being a basic land does not have a basic land type so it wouldn't up the cost of collective restraint.
I've never realised that it didn't say wastes after basic land. The more you know
Not a pillowfort card per se, but Karmic Justice really helps protect all your precious enchantments. I've had great success running it
Caltrops is a pet card of mine for the Consequences category. If you have a way to give it deathtouch, it can be a game-changer
Favorite 2 card pillow for combo
Darkest hour, light of day
BTW, I know this card isn't a pillowfort, but 2 (w) Grand Abolisher is a nice way to stop people from countering what you play on your turn since it stops all spells and abilities of your opponent from activating on your turn
Norns annex is pretty good too! Either they pay two life or one white mana for each creature. It’s nearly killed people when they don’t have white in their deck.
Lightmine Field is a good one, stops token swarms in their tracks. Energy Field is another good one, pairs exceptionally well with Rest in Peace. If you want to be really mean then Energy Field + Rest in Peace + Dovescape + Guile. Good luck to your opponents doing much about that
Got some fun ideas for my olorro pillow fort commander deck. thank you.
I love running dissipation field in a lot of my decks, same with aurification cuz nothing is funnier than turning someone’s 12/12 beat stick into an 0/4 wall.. 😂
fight or flight is another fun one lol
Dueling Grounds and Silent Arbiter are amazing in an Exalted deck.
Norn's annex, for 3 w/p w/p and Creatures can't attack you or a planeswalker you control unless their controller pays w/p for each of those creatures
I would love to see an ultimate defense deck come out of this. I have no idea what a good commander would be though that could use most of the cards
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin. All colors and most of these are enchantments which is good w Sphere of Safety and anything that's removed can be recurred
A classic in ensnaring bridge. With a little hand manipulation makes any attacking based strategy doomed without artifact removal
My Oloro deck loves the Energy Field/ Web of Inertia and Rest In Peace Combo.
Norn's Annex is an interesting one that works well with decks that look to drain opponents' life
While not exactly pillow fort I would include grave pact and death pits of wrath they can make opponent think twice about attacking, death pits goes well with first strike and double strike creatures as well as plinkers. Puting firewhip on eater of the dead is a fun way to use death pits people are less likely to attack you when you can one sided board wipe at any time.so in a way it can be considered pillow fort
In the first category, you missed archangel of tithe. But my favorite pillowfort card is sun droplet, quite effective in multiplayer, especially if you can benefit from the life gain like in my heliod sun-crowned.
It's global rather than just for you, but Peacekeeper can really throw a wrench into things. And possibly draw the ire of the table.
You forget the Basic Land Wastes, so X is 6 for each attacking creature if you play with Collective Restraint ;)
Stoic Angel is another good card that works in a similar way as dueling grounds and silent arbiter. I run all three of those in an exalted voltron deck.
I won't mention Moat, but what about Teferi's Moat from Invasion? 3WU for an Enchantment that when it enters play you choose a color and creatures of that color can't attack?
You know I would also add another category: 'Anywhere but here' adding cards like: Edric, spymaster of threst, Crown of doom, Bloodthirsty blade, Disrupt decorum, Gisela, blade of goldnight or a very recent one; agitator ant. These cards don't exactly disincentives attacks against you but incentiveses attacks on your opponents.
Is bloodthirsty blade worth trying? I really like the concept but haven't found the right deck to use it in :/
@@Turn2Ugin I have also not really used it but I mostly play 1v1 so I can't really play these kinds of cards. I think this card has more potential than most people think. If your sorceries have flash you can equip it to each player's strongest or most problematic creature.
Dueling ground has an excellent combo with Iroas and menace in general.
Just started watching and I already know you are gonna miss the absolutely ridiculous pillowfort combo: Form of the Dragon + Phyexian Unlife