elves, not faeries by Emracool

Format: Commander

Commander: Maralen, Fae Ascendant

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Maralen, Fae Ascendant is a five-mana Sultai Elf/Faerie ETB engine, and this deck is built to maximize how many times an Elf, Faerie, or changeling enters the battlefield. Every new body exiles the top two cards of an opponent's library and gives Maralen a once-per-turn window to cast a spell from that exiled pool for free. The list pairs that theft-and-cast engine with a classic tribal midrange plan: mana dorks, Elvish Archdruid, Realmwalker, Descendants' Path, and ETB multipliers in Roaming Throne and Yarok, the Desecrated. The actual finish is usually an overwhelming swarm created by Kindred Summons or a foretold Haunting Voyage, backed by pump effects and Selfless Safewright protection. There is no compact infinite combo; the deck wins by burying opponents in exiled cards, incremental card advantage, and a wide, increasingly large elf battlefield.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast-Kin Ranger
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawn's Light Archer
  • 1 Dawnhand Eulogist
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Druid of the Cowl
  • 1 Dwynen's Elite
  • 1 Eclipsed Elf
  • 1 Elegant Entourage
  • 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Find // Finality
  • 1 Firemind Vessel
  • 19 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Frog Butler
  • 1 Gilt-Leaf's Embrace
  • 1 Glen Elendra Guardian
  • 1 Golgari Guildmage
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 1 Iron-Shield Elf
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kindred Summons
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lie in Wait
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Morcant's Eyes
  • 1 Mutable Explorer
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Redtooth Genealogist
  • 2 Regeneration
  • 1 Return Upon the Tide
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 2 Run Away Together
  • 1 Scarblade Scout
  • 1 Scarblade's Malice
  • 2 Selfless Safewright
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 Thornmantle Striker
  • 1 Thornweald Archer
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Unbury
  • 1 Unforgiving Aim
  • 1 Vinebred Brawler
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated