"Estrid The Masked: God Bringer."

"Estrid The Masked: God Bringer."

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

I took one hard look at the commander that was to be mine this coming August 10 , 2018 and all I could think of was all of the Theros Bestow creatures that I had that were in some box somewhere. I guess now is the time to thank myself for buying all of them on the cheap and getting to Estrid the masked as Commander.

This new planeswalker comes in the colors of Bant and a colorless mana. It comes in with 3 loyalty counters which can easily bumped up to 5 with it's first ability.

And for a dedicated enchantment deck this will be one good advantage. If you have been playing an aura to enchant a land and were able to get Estrid out then you can just go ahead and untap all of those lands. The same goes for creatures that have auras on them. 

So Mana dorks can untap , creatures with wonderful abilities can untap.

And what if you don't have anything with an aura on it? Well Estrid takes care of that too by giving it a Mask. A white Aura that attaches to another target permanent. So now you can actually protect one of your permanents. It can attach to that particular planeswalker that you like so much for example and if your opponents dare damage it you could just sacrifice the Totem Armor Mask and save it.

What intrigues me the most is the Ultimate skill of Estrid which allows you to dump the top 7 cards of your library into your graveyard.(this would be great if you already used a Sensei's divining top or Halimar Depths to see what is on top or maybe use a Courser of Kruphix or Future sight as well. Or maybe use Brainstorm first and put 2 mana costing Enchantments on top of that library).

After the cards fall to the graveyard you can then return all Non-Aura enchantments to the battlefield. The best ones should be the Bestow or God creatures from Theros. All of whom are non-aura enchantment creatures and then if you have Aura cards you could return them to enchant these creatures. I don't know maybe cards like Eldrazi conscription , Daybreak Coronet , Auramancers guise  , something something Godhead and a lot more.

The wonderful thing about this ability is that you could board wipe or even if your opponents beat you to that this will turn out to be a one sided reanimation technique. Much like what Bruna , Sovereigns of New Alara does and the new white Angel that is in the pre con deck of Estrid.

You could Traumatize yourself and then use this ability to maximize all of the Auras and Enchantment creatures.

Now imagine this scenario where Thassa , Karametra , Nylea  . Kruphix  , Ephara and  Heliod. These Gods could all be in your graveyard and they all could comeback with enough color mana count to be creatures! You just need to hope that you also have enough deterrents in play just in case you do not have the haste to attack like Sphere of Safety , Propaganda or Ghostly Prison.

Yup Estrid is shaping up to be the commander that I have always wanted for these enchantment Gods. I can't wait for August 10.