Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

Elesh Norn returns with a new Praetor Unsymmetrical ability to disable your opponents triggers for permanents entering the battlefield and double your own. While leaning into the strengths and making up for the weaknesses of mono-white I ended up with something functionally explosive and irritating.

Double Up

Abusing the additional trigger wasn’t too difficult. Much in like with Yarok, the Desecrated and documented synergies with Panharmonicon the extent of value gained can be explosive. This can significantly help with the limitations of mono-white such as by using and reusing Coveted Jewel for card draw and a number of different lines of play for ramp.

Flicker Things

Now the exponential part of the value is reusing the double enter the battlefield triggers by flickering. Touch the Spirit Realm for instance acts as both a pseudo Oblivion Ring and Flicker at the same time while being retrievable by Cavalier of Dawn or tutored by Enlightened Tutor. Teleportation Circle is my preference in this deck but there are loops with Felidar Guardian and Charming Prince or Restoration Angel.

Elesh Norn has lots of fun casual value but it’s effect like many other Praetors would not feel fit for a casual table. It seems to be a good mid power deck with lots of powerful plays while keeping control with hatebear pieces scattered throughout. If nothing else, it’s quite enjoyable to be an interactable deck that can accidentally infinite with all sorts of strange pieces on board.