Fun unsolicited fact: She's actually based on Jason (of the Argonauts). The soldier tokens are Spartoi, soldiers who rise from the earth where dragon's teeth are planted.
You forgot the second most important aura for Siona after Shielded by Faith: Flickerform Everyone always forgets Flickerform when it's such a strong card. Sure, the ability can be a little mana-intensive to use, but that doesn't matter as much in a deck with G. It also gives such strong protection in the form of repeatable until-end-of-turn blink, and it will trigger Siona a bunch of times since she'll trigger for each aura Flickerform blinks. Also, Nomad Mythmaker is pretty good for getting auras back from the graveyard.
Flickerform is incredible with Eidolon of Blossoms, as you get card draw for each aura re-entering the battlefield. It works well with bear umbra. It prevents cyclonic rift from being a blowout as well. I agree, super under-rated card.
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Hey DJ, great video, happy to see these commander deck techs/building theory, I would recommend the other gold uncommon legendary from the set, Eutropia, for another video. Not the boldest commander, but it gives you room to really personalize
For haste-granting enchantments, you have Instill Energy which is 1 Green mana, grants haste, and allows an enchanted creature to untap one time during your turn for free so it works as a pseudo-vigilance or to enable you to activate tap abilities twice.
So Altar of the Brood has been mentioned already in the comments, but how is nobody talking about Blasting Station added to that combo? You just need to stack it right and you kill the whole table in the same turn.
Attach shield to siona create token Attach shield to token Sack token that should left to blasting station Create new token from siona ability Untap blasting station Repeat
Excellent tech my guy! I actually pre Ordered Wonder Woman just to get a jump on this deck. I personally added in all the aura cost reduction dudes and the most economic bestows. One cool card to think about is god favored general, all the cards that +/+ with enchantments is pretty fun!
This is the best Wonder Woman deck. She is not only greek but an amazonish woman as well as being able the same colour hair and skin. Really want to make the deck into a theme deck based off WW with her signature spells, so bracelets, a whip and maybe even a invisible jet.
Thank you DJ! I'm working on a Siona deck now (about 25 cards in) and needed some ideas since I keep going back to my buy list and scratching my head. my list came down to about $60. Shielded by Faith can actually end the game the same turn you cast it if you have Altar of the Brood or Altar of Dementia to create infinite mill, of Crashing Drawbridge, a random common from Eldraine xan tap to give your tokens haste and is waaaaay cheaper than concordant crossroads.
You definitely need Vernal Equinox to give all of your enchantments haste. One way to get around the lack of haste and catch your opponents by surprise.
Like you said, alela has no green, so you loose like 6 enchantress effects and all the land enchantment ramp and you lose the shielded by faith 2 card combo. Alela wants to ge deeper into the artifact theme is my expirience since there are a lot of dumb thinks to be done by playing a bunch of 0 drop artifacts, bounce them, replay them and do all sorts of silly things.
Hey DJ. Great video. Love the touches of the extra info that you display and don’t mention (eg. mobilisation). Have you ever tried having your notes printed in front of you? It feels a bit odd when you’re checking them to the side rather than looking down the camera. I think the benefit of that would our way any negativity perceived by having something in your hands while you talk. But I’m not a creator, so I don’t know if there’s a logistics issue with that. Keep up the great work.
Just gonna say this before watching the video- This deck better have the greatest Green White Enchantment in the History of MTG in it....Armadillo Cloak. When I first started playing mtg back in kamigawa and didn't know anything, the players I played with convinced me that it was a terrible card and I shouldn't play it in my deck.
Yeah flickerform need to be talked about here. With settesan champion on the battle field and you have 3 auras on your commander including flicker form you pay 4 mana flicker out your commander then at end step she comes back in so her etb will trigger. Then the auras will attach again and enter so more tokens then you will draw 3 cards and then the champion get 3 counters. So much value for 4 mana
jumbo i love the vids and all ur commander decks. ive been playin around with gitrog for some time but cant seem to get it fun yet competitive. any thoughts or ideas without goin all in on the cedh nonsense? i wanna stick with a lands matters concept and just playin as many lands as possible. all thoughts appreciated man and plz keep the vids coming, my son and i look forward to all the commander ideas.
Honestly you should add altar of dementia to this deck. With the infinite tokens you can sac them to the altar to mill your opponents or add crashing drawbridge to give them all haste for when you go infinite. Also Lotus Field is a fantastic land with enchantment ramp because your opponent can't remove it without playing MLD.
I got to run this deck at my LGS right after the set came out and it is FUN. A few honorable mentions from my deck that aren't in DJs build but are very fun cards: Mycoloth (devour all your soldiers and dump out twice as many saprolings every turn) Altar of the Brood/Altar of Dementia (Mill? In Selesnya? YOU MADWOMAN!) Shanna, Sisay's Legacy (Just a nice, evasive aura target that gets a bonus for more creatures) Spider Climb (one drop aura that can be cast at instant speed if you destroy it at end of turn. PERFECT for restarting your Shielded by Faith combo if someone tries to disrupt it.) Here's my deck list for anyone curious on a slightly different build: tappedout.net/mtg-decks/siona-captain-of-just-so-much-life-gain/?cb=1581266903 Always looking for budget upgrades!
So, you are going more into life gain, which can be interesting. However, you do not have a lot of life gain payoffs. And I really urge you to play Enchantresses - its one of the main benefits of playing a lot of enchantments. You will run out of gas very fast without that card draw.
@@MalteLewandowski I'm definitely not going to disagree there. The lack of enchantresses was simply out of not having them when the deck was assembled, but I did manage to find one while sorting cards earlier! As for life gain payoffs, big alt-wins like felidar sovereign are pretty frowned upon in my meta, so I'm mostly just playing it as a way to give myself a wide margin to be able to swing in with my creatures. For the most part, it seems like Altar of the Brood is the far bigger all star over the life gain though.
I need to talk to my playgroup. I want to build a partner deck with tiana ship’s caretaker (WR) and eutropia the twice favored.(UG) can you believe theres not a single partner commander with an enchantment theme
I love the flavor of this card. If you look at the art you see she has female warriors on either side of her and the soldier tokens in this set are female soldiers. So Siona could be the captain of the Amazonians
You know I'm surprised everyone is hyped for the aura ability. And not focusing on the 1/1 creature token. My siona deck will be doubling season, anointed possession, parallel lives, shielded by faith focused. I don't care about crappy auras there's no good ones to keep the main focus of the deck fixed to that. Sure she's digs 7 deep for one of those aura cards but if it's isn't shielded by faith who gives a rats ass. I'm more focused on token generation. Maybe it's just me but my table is just to violent and go for throat to hide behind aura spells
Great video, can't wait to test the deck. If I can make one criticism: although I don't mind seeing your jolly face, I'd rather see and read the cards while you explain them. Please reduce your "face time" ;-)
Wonderwoman: The Deck.
Fun unsolicited fact: She's actually based on Jason (of the Argonauts). The soldier tokens are Spartoi, soldiers who rise from the earth where dragon's teeth are planted.
You forgot the second most important aura for Siona after Shielded by Faith: Flickerform
Everyone always forgets Flickerform when it's such a strong card. Sure, the ability can be a little mana-intensive to use, but that doesn't matter as much in a deck with G. It also gives such strong protection in the form of repeatable until-end-of-turn blink, and it will trigger Siona a bunch of times since she'll trigger for each aura Flickerform blinks.
Also, Nomad Mythmaker is pretty good for getting auras back from the graveyard.
Flickerform is incredible with Eidolon of Blossoms, as you get card draw for each aura re-entering the battlefield. It works well with bear umbra. It prevents cyclonic rift from being a blowout as well. I agree, super under-rated card.
Helps dodge spot removal aswell
Yeah he forgot to mention them, but they are in the deck list on trapped out :)
But those two yeah seem really darm important!
Thanks for the recommendation.
Also crashing drawbridge is a crazy good card with this deck can tutor for it with enlightned tutor. Then give all of those tokens haste.
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The irony of watching this video while cracking a booster with Siona in it....Fantastic.
Not that hard to get I have like 5 sionas
Thanks DJ for making a relatively budget deck. I also have most of the pieces so it looks like I’m good to go.
Awesome video DJ! This was definitely one of the commanders I was stoked to see a deck tech for
Thanks, DJ. Always enjoy your vids. Watched this ages ago. Just coming back to finally build Siona.
Hey DJ, great video, happy to see these commander deck techs/building theory, I would recommend the other gold uncommon legendary from the set, Eutropia, for another video. Not the boldest commander, but it gives you room to really personalize
For haste-granting enchantments, you have Instill Energy which is 1 Green mana, grants haste, and allows an enchanted creature to untap one time during your turn for free so it works as a pseudo-vigilance or to enable you to activate tap abilities twice.
Watching this in 2021 and hearing smothering tithe only cost 8$ sounds wild to me now
A guy at my LGS made her deck. He put in Altar of the Brood, so when he goes infinite tokens it mills everyone out. Silly jank. lol
Sweet! Pulled this card from the prerelease and I’ve been wondering what to do with it! Thanks for the ideas! 🙏🙏🙏
Ahhhh you picked the one I wanted to see!!!
So Altar of the Brood has been mentioned already in the comments, but how is nobody talking about Blasting Station added to that combo? You just need to stack it right and you kill the whole table in the same turn.
Attach shield to siona create token
Attach shield to token
Sack token that should left to blasting station
Create new token from siona ability
Untap blasting station
Repeat
DJ, is scary to me how often we're on the same page, deck-building wise. It's great to see inside your brain.
Cool thing about Heavenly Blademaster in this deck is that snagging all those Auras will also cause Siona to make a bunch more soldier tokens.
Excellent tech my guy! I actually pre
Ordered Wonder Woman just to get a jump on this deck. I personally added in all the aura cost reduction dudes and the most economic bestows. One cool card to think about is god favored general, all the cards that +/+ with enchantments is pretty fun!
This is the best Wonder Woman deck. She is not only greek but an amazonish woman as well as being able the same colour hair and skin. Really want to make the deck into a theme deck based off WW with her signature spells, so bracelets, a whip and maybe even a invisible jet.
Ah! An all female creature enchantress deck. I love it.
Thank you DJ! I'm working on a Siona deck now (about 25 cards in) and needed some ideas since I keep going back to my buy list and scratching my head. my list came down to about $60.
Shielded by Faith can actually end the game the same turn you cast it if you have Altar of the Brood or Altar of Dementia to create infinite mill, of Crashing Drawbridge, a random common from Eldraine xan tap to give your tokens haste and is waaaaay cheaper than concordant crossroads.
You definitely need Vernal Equinox to give all of your enchantments haste. One way to get around the lack of haste and catch your opponents by surprise.
Sigarda's aid can easily do that without giving advantage to your opponents.
Midnight Guard enchanted with Presence of Gond and equipped with a Haste enabler makes infinite elves potentially. They also fit the decks colours
I'll be adding her to my Sigarda Voltron deck, helps get Auras and makes Shielded by faith an alternate win condition.
Dig it! DJ you're giving me great ideas on how to tune up my Bant Enchant EDH deck currently commanded by Estrid.
She brings green to the table, which obviously is very nice, but in general is Alela, Artful Provocateur not very similar, but a lot more powerful?
Like you said, alela has no green, so you loose like 6 enchantress effects and all the land enchantment ramp and you lose the shielded by faith 2 card combo. Alela wants to ge deeper into the artifact theme is my expirience since there are a lot of dumb thinks to be done by playing a bunch of 0 drop artifacts, bounce them, replay them and do all sorts of silly things.
Hey DJ. Great video.
Love the touches of the extra info that you display and don’t mention (eg. mobilisation).
Have you ever tried having your notes printed in front of you? It feels a bit odd when you’re checking them to the side rather than looking down the camera.
I think the benefit of that would our way any negativity perceived by having something in your hands while you talk.
But I’m not a creator, so I don’t know if there’s a logistics issue with that.
Keep up the great work.
Just gonna say this before watching the video- This deck better have the greatest Green White Enchantment in the History of MTG in it....Armadillo Cloak. When I first started playing mtg back in kamigawa and didn't know anything, the players I played with convinced me that it was a terrible card and I shouldn't play it in my deck.
Well done yet again
I like your deck a lot of the Commander and can the commander be good for Voltron deck
I got banned from our tabletop from using her with shielded by faith lol.
The deck should be strong enough even without the combo. :)
Siona + Shielded by Faith + Anointed Procession = Infinite Tokens x2! LOL
I made a Siona deck with cards I had laying around. It’s pretty fun because you can just get a bunch of tokens and pump them with auras
I LOVE your decks!!
You wouldn't have to wait a turn if you had a crashing drawbridge out to give them all haste once you have enough to overwhelm everyone.
Yeah flickerform need to be talked about here. With settesan champion on the battle field and you have 3 auras on your commander including flicker form you pay 4 mana flicker out your commander then at end step she comes back in so her etb will trigger. Then the auras will attach again and enter so more tokens then you will draw 3 cards and then the champion get 3 counters. So much value for 4 mana
jumbo i love the vids and all ur commander decks. ive been playin around with gitrog for some time but cant seem to get it fun yet competitive. any thoughts or ideas without goin all in on the cedh nonsense? i wanna stick with a lands matters concept and just playin as many lands as possible. all thoughts appreciated man and plz keep the vids coming, my son and i look forward to all the commander ideas.
Ya i definately prefer this format. Good shit DJ.
Gargos could be interesting. Any Auras you cast on your own creatures would let him fight blockers and he's pretty huge for Overwhelming Stampede.
Dj can you show us your Cube as you presented all your commander decks?
No Argrothian Enchantress?
Honestly you should add altar of dementia to this deck. With the infinite tokens you can sac them to the altar to mill your opponents or add crashing drawbridge to give them all haste for when you go infinite.
Also Lotus Field is a fantastic land with enchantment ramp because your opponent can't remove it without playing MLD.
Since command zone its actually more comfortable seeing you.
This deck gives off a nice glow...
Ah yes, those heady days when Smothering Tithe was eight bucks
What powerr level would you say this is? When optimised?
Cathars' Crusade and Anointed Procession would be also nice in this deck :)
Dreampod druid says each upkeep, which in a 4 player game gets you 4 tokens every turn cycle
Seems Shielded by Faith along with Cathar's Crusade may be fun. :) Add in a couple of the soul sisters for icing!
I still like this deck, very fun to play
I got to run this deck at my LGS right after the set came out and it is FUN. A few honorable mentions from my deck that aren't in DJs build but are very fun cards:
Mycoloth (devour all your soldiers and dump out twice as many saprolings every turn)
Altar of the Brood/Altar of Dementia (Mill? In Selesnya? YOU MADWOMAN!)
Shanna, Sisay's Legacy (Just a nice, evasive aura target that gets a bonus for more creatures)
Spider Climb (one drop aura that can be cast at instant speed if you destroy it at end of turn. PERFECT for restarting your Shielded by Faith combo if someone tries to disrupt it.)
Here's my deck list for anyone curious on a slightly different build: tappedout.net/mtg-decks/siona-captain-of-just-so-much-life-gain/?cb=1581266903
Always looking for budget upgrades!
So, you are going more into life gain, which can be interesting. However, you do not have a lot of life gain payoffs. And I really urge you to play Enchantresses - its one of the main benefits of playing a lot of enchantments. You will run out of gas very fast without that card draw.
@@MalteLewandowski I'm definitely not going to disagree there. The lack of enchantresses was simply out of not having them when the deck was assembled, but I did manage to find one while sorting cards earlier!
As for life gain payoffs, big alt-wins like felidar sovereign are pretty frowned upon in my meta, so I'm mostly just playing it as a way to give myself a wide margin to be able to swing in with my creatures. For the most part, it seems like Altar of the Brood is the far bigger all star over the life gain though.
Not a huge fan of most your decks but this new formatting for deck techs is super nice
If you can share us the list, we will apreciate
Instill Energy is a great haste enabler and in a go wide green board I can justify running Concordant Crossroads if I can kill them that turn.
I have clashing draw bridge and Endraze forerunners I should look at that card as well
Soooooo, does anyone know where I can find a dice like that one in the background?
I need to talk to my playgroup. I want to build a partner deck with tiana ship’s caretaker (WR) and eutropia the twice favored.(UG) can you believe theres not a single partner commander with an enchantment theme
Wounder women of the mascara
She also fits quite well in Estrid and Yuril.
Tuvasa!
KARAMETRA!!! MAKE THE ANGELS!
Honestly i still haven't found an enchantment commander i like yet
Gabriel lecureux have you tried Tuvasa, the Sunlit?
YURIL!!!!
They're all pretty bad tbh.
@@papanurgle8393 y’all keep thinking that, it’s appreciated. It keeps the price for the great aura strategy cards down!
The closest ive gotten is an up graded precon of estrid and it slowly transformed into a big mana deck
Snap added her to my Uriel deck, dig for a aura and give me tokens to sac, one of Uriels banes, sac effects. If I dont got my Sigarda out that is.
I love the flavor of this card. If you look at the art you see she has female warriors on either side of her and the soldier tokens in this set are female soldiers. So Siona could be the captain of the Amazonians
Makes me think of Siona Atreides from Dune. And Amazons.
Always run Crashing Drawbridge.
I think this is actually pretty cool..... Cause my name is Siona 🤯
You know I'm surprised everyone is hyped for the aura ability. And not focusing on the 1/1 creature token. My siona deck will be doubling season, anointed possession, parallel lives, shielded by faith focused. I don't care about crappy auras there's no good ones to keep the main focus of the deck fixed to that. Sure she's digs 7 deep for one of those aura cards but if it's isn't shielded by faith who gives a rats ass. I'm more focused on token generation. Maybe it's just me but my table is just to violent and go for throat to hide behind aura spells
Instill Energy for haste!
Instill Energy. 1 mana for haste and 0:untap creature
Nature's Chosen is even better! Enchant Siona and you can untap her AND tap an opponents creature
could add Altar of the Brood to the combo. mill everyone to win
9:35 HAHAHAHAA
No Altar of the Brood? I'm disappointed in you.
Pegasi
Hey its your face.
Great video, can't wait to test the deck. If I can make one criticism: although I don't mind seeing your jolly face, I'd rather see and read the cards while you explain them. Please reduce your "face time" ;-)
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DJ: Please use auto-tone. Your voice sounds like a turtle humping a shoe. PLEASE AUTO TUNE.