Faeries by katelynzimmer

Format: Commander

Commander: Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Dimir Faerie tribal tempo strategy led by Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor. The primary game plan revolves around deploying evasive flying creatures, buffing them with tribal lord effects, and drawing cards whenever they perish in combat. The list combines small flyers like Barrow Naughty and Bitterbloom Bearer with supportive counterspells such as Counterspell and Spell Stutter to protect its board and disrupt opposing plays. Because the deck includes very little ramp and lacks combo finishes, it operates at a traditional casual pace, assembling a swarm across the midgame and closing through aerial combat damage. It possesses respectable resilience thanks to Tegwyll's card draw and secondary lords like Glen Elendra Liege, but it must be piloted carefully to avoid exhausting its resources into opposing sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barrow Naughty
  • 1 Bitter Chill
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Blossombind
  • 1 Chakra Meditation
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confiscate
  • 1 Control Magic
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dewdrop Spy
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dose of Dawnglow
  • 1 Ego Drain
  • 1 Esior, Wardwing Familiar
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Even the Score
  • 1 Faebloom Trick
  • 1 Faerie Formation
  • 1 Faerie Harbinger
  • 1 Final-Sting Faerie
  • 1 Flitterwing Nuisance
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glamermite
  • 1 Glen Elendra Guardian
  • 1 Glen Elendra Liege
  • 1 Glen Elendra's Answer
  • 1 Gravitational Shift
  • 1 Grim Discovery
  • 1 Grim Return
  • 1 Halo Forager
  • 1 Hidden Grotto
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 20 Island
  • 1 Jace's Ingenuity
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Macabre Waltz
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Multiply by Zero
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Murky Sewer
  • 1 Nightmare Sower
  • 1 Nightshade Schemers
  • 1 Nymris, Oona's Trickster
  • 1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Psychic Strike
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Rumble Arena
  • 1 Scatter to the Winds
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shameless Charlatan
  • 1 Sleep-Cursed Faerie
  • 1 Snaremaster Sprite
  • 1 So Tiny
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Ransom
  • 1 Spell Stutter
  • 1 Spinal Embrace
  • 1 Stingblade Assassin
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sugar Rush
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Thieving Sprite
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor