Death by Fae by Draskia

Format: Commander

Commander: Maralen, Fae Ascendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 18

Deck overview

This is a general-power tribal deck built around Maralen, Fae Ascendant. The commander turns each tribal entry into two exiled cards and can cast one suitably cheap exiled spell each turn without paying its mana cost. The deck supports that plan with token makers such as Bitterblossom, tribal mana from Priest of Titania, card engines including Kindred Discovery and Leaf-Crowned Visionary, and several Elf and Faerie payoffs. Its main limitation is that the commander costs five mana and the free spells are random, so the early engine is value rather than a deterministic win. The deck can produce a threatening board around turn 8, but it lacks a compact finish, a reliable infinite combo, and enough protection to force that board through a full table. Removal and graveyard recovery provide useful staying power, while Vampiric Tutor offers only limited access to specific missing pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ambush Commander
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Auroral Procession
• 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
• 1 Bitterblossom
• 1 Botanical Sanctum
• 1 Celestial Reunion
• 1 Chomping Changeling
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Clever Impersonator
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Culling Ritual
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dawnhand Dissident
• 1 Down in the Valley
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Eclipsed Elf
• 1 Eclipsed Realms
• 1 Elven Passage
• 1 Elvish Warmaster
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Eyeblight Cullers
• 1 Eyeblight Massacre
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Faerie Mastermind
• 9 Forest
• 1 Ghost Lantern // Bind Spirit
• 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1 Gloom Ripper
• 1 Grand Coliseum
• 1 Graveshifter
• 1 Haunted One
• 1 High Perfect Morcant
• 8 Island
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
• 1 Leyline of Anticipation
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
• 1 Lys Alana Dignitary
• 1 Maestros Theater
• 1 Maralen of the Mornsong
• 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
• 1 Mirri's Guile
• 1 Mistbind Clique
• 1 Mithril Coat
• 1 Morcant's Loyalist
• 1 Morgue Theft
• 1 Omni-Changeling
• 1 Priest of Titania
• 1 Promising Vein
• 1 Puppeteer Clique
• 1 Quirion Ranger
• 1 Realmwalker
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Skemfar Shadowsage
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spellstutter Sprite
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Mending of Dominaria
• 1 Thranduil's Company
• 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
• 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
• 1 Trystan's Command
• 1 Unbury
• 1 Unwelcome Sprite
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Vicious Rivalry
• 1 Viridescent Bog
• 1 Virulent Emissary
• 1 Wood Elves
• 1 Woodland Weavemaster