Maralen, Fae Ascendant by user1525000

Format: Commander

Commander: Maralen, Fae Ascendant

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Maralen, Fae Ascendant leads a methodical Elf/Faerie tribal deck that wins through incremental value and combat. The game plan revolves around casting Maralen to exile opponents' cards, then building a critical mass of Elves and Faeries to cast those spells for free. The deck packs self-mill, graveyard recursion (Bloodline Bidding, Eternal Witness), and anthems (Chronicle of Victory, Thunderfoot Baloth) to turn a wide board lethal. There are no infinite combos; victory comes from out-grinding opponents with repeated ETB triggers, free spells, and eventual trample-laden attacks. The commander is the central engine for card advantage, but the deck retains a functional combat plan if she is removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Airship Crash
  • 1 Aquitect's Defenses
  • 1 Assert Perfection
  • 1 Auntie's Sentence
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Blossombind
  • 1 Capital City
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Citanul Hierophants
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darkness Descends
  • 1 Dawn's Light Archer
  • 1 Dawn-Blessed Pennant
  • 1 Dawnhand Eulogist
  • 1 Dose of Dawnglow
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Dream Seizer
  • 1 Eclipsed Elf
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Flitterwing Nuisance
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Galion, Elvenking's Butler
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Glen Elendra Guardian
  • 1 Glen Elendra's Answer
  • 1 Gloom Ripper
  • 1 Gohn, Town of Ruin
  • 1 Guardian of the Halls
  • 1 High Perfect Morcant
  • 1 Holdout Settlement
  • 1 Illusion Spinners
  • 1 Iron-Shield Elf
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
  • 1 Lofty Dreams
  • 1 Lys Alana Dignitary
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Midnight Tilling
  • 1 Mirkwood
  • 1 Mirkwood Meditator
  • 1 Mirkwood Nurturer
  • 1 Moon-Vigil Adherents
  • 1 Morcant's Eyes
  • 1 Morcant's Loyalist
  • 1 Nightmare Sower
  • 1 Nissa's Expedition
  • 1 Nullmage Shepherd
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Perfect Intimidation
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Safewright Cavalry
  • 1 Scarblade Scout
  • 1 Scarblade's Malice
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Snare
  • 1 Stoic Grove-Guide
  • 1 Supper for Spiders
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Tam, Mindful First-Year
  • 1 Temporal Cleansing
  • 1 Tend the Sprigs
  • 1 The Final Days
  • 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
  • 1 Trystan's Command
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Unbury
  • 1 Unforgiving Aim
  • 1 Unwelcome Sprite
  • 1 Vinebred Brawler
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Voracious Tome-Skimmer
  • 1 Wild Unraveling