alela budget by Gastooch

Format: Commander

Commander: Alela, Cunning Conqueror

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

The primary plan is a draw-go faerie swarm: cast Alela, hold up cheap instants and flash creatures, then turn each opponent's first spell into a flying Faerie Rogue token while drawing with Wavebreak, Nymris, and combat-damage engines. The commander both generates the tokens and uses goad to keep the skies clear; Tegwyll and Obyra are supporting lords, not hidden commanders. Secondary paths are Notorious Throng into an extra-turn alpha strike, Shadow Puppeteers/Candlekeep Inspiration as mass pump, and Banner of Kinship to turn a wide board lethal. The deck has no infinite combo; it wins by incremental flying damage accelerated by a finishing pump spell.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Alela, Cunning Conqueror
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
  • 1 Candlekeep Inspiration
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cremate
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Disrupt
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Eaten by Piranhas
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flitterwing Nuisance
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Impulse
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Keep Watch
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirrodin Avenged
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Notorious Throng
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Nymris, Oona's Trickster
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Repeal
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Shadow Puppeteers
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Stutter
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
  • 1 The Wondrous Wasp
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Voracious Tome-Skimmer
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 You Are Already Dead