Maralen, Fae Ascendant by user8389040

Format: Commander

Commander: Maralen, Fae Ascendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This Sultai deck merges Elf and Faerie kindred synergies under the command of Maralen, Fae Ascendant. The early game focuses on developing mana dorks such as Elvish Mystic and Bloom Tender alongside evasive token producers like Bitterbloom Bearer. Once Maralen enters on Turn 4, every subsequent kindred creature exiles cards from opponents' libraries, providing continuous free spells scaled to your kindred count. The deck backs up this advantage engine with strong countermagic like Fierce Guardianship and board protection from Selfless Safewright. Mid-game transitions leverage massive draw spells such as Shamanic Revelation and Harmonized Crescendo to flood the board with creatures. Victory is achieved through wide combat swings empowered by Tyvar, the Pummeler, Germination Practicum, or mass reanimation with Bloodline Bidding, eliminating the table across Turns 6 and 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
  • 1 Cantankerous Keepers
  • 1 Champions of the Perfect
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faerie Artisans
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flitterwing Nuisance
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
  • 1 Germination Practicum
  • 1 Glen Elendra Guardian
  • 1 Glen Elendra's Answer
  • 1 Gloom Ripper
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 High Perfect Morcant
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kamahl's Druidic Vow
  • 1 Kishla Village
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Mathemagics
  • 1 Military Intelligence
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirror Room // Fractured Realm
  • 1 Murky Sewer
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Omenpath Journey
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Planar Engineering
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Season of Loss
  • 1 Selfless Safewright
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of the Dryads
  • 1 Sothera, the Supervoid
  • 1 Stardew Valley
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Traveler's Amulet
  • 1 Trystan's Command
  • 1 Trystan, Callous Cultivator // Trystan, Penitent Culler
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vraska Joins Up
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery