Fairy Tribal by user3669893

Format: Commander

Commander: Alela, Artful Provocateur

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper go-wide token strategy commanded by Alela, Artful Provocateur. The primary game plan accelerates Alela onto the battlefield on Turn 3 or 4, then continuously triggers her ability by casting low-cost artifact and enchantment spells to amass an evasive army of 1/1 flying Faerie tokens. Static anthem effects such as Inspiring Leader, Favorable Winds, Intangible Virtue, and Banner of Kinship rapidly scale token power, converting small utility spells into significant combat threats. Secondary life drain engines like Mirkwood Bats and Obyra, Dreaming Duelist punish opponents for token creation and deaths. The deck supports its proactive swarm plan with versatile removal including Swords to Plowshares and Void Rend, board control via Junk Winder, and taxing pressure from Painful Quandary. While vulnerable to mass sweepers, it leverages high anthem density and steady token generation to overwhelm the table by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abstruse Appropriation
  • 1 Adaptive Automaton
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Alela, Artful Provocateur
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Courage
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Caretaker's Talent
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copy Enchantment
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptic Caves
  • 1 Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Curiosity Crafter
  • 1 Day of Judgment
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Empyrean Eagle
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Extravagant Replication
  • 1 Favorable Winds
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Fix What's Broken
  • 1 Flesh Duplicate
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Get Out
  • 1 Gideon's Memorial
  • 1 Glamermite
  • 1 Glen Elendra's Answer
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Inspiring Leader
  • 1 Intangible Virtue
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Karn, Scion of Urza
  • 1 Letter of Acceptance
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mischievous Mystic
  • 1 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
  • 1 Odric, Lunarch Marshal
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Protective Response
  • 1 Ravenous Amulet
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Scion of Oona
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord
  • 1 Soulstone Sanctuary
  • 1 Stolen by the Fae
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand
  • 1 Threadbind Clique // Rip the Seams
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Twisted Fates
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave