Lilly's Fairies by DJ-Odawg

Format: Commander

Commander: Alela, Artful Provocateur

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper aggressive token strategy built around Alela, Artful Provocateur. The primary game plan focuses on casting early mana artifacts to deploy Alela by Turn 3 or 4, then cascading into a swarm of evasive 1/1 flying Faerie tokens by casting low-cost artifacts and enchantments. The deck converts flying attackers into massive card advantage through combat-damage draw engines such as Bident of Thassa, Reconnaissance Mission, and Enduring Curiosity. Once the engine is established, anthem effects like Favorable Winds, Empyrean Eagle, and Etchings of the Chosen scale token power to lethal thresholds, while passive drain from Bastion of Remembrance and Obyra, Dreaming Duelist punishes opposing resistance. Robust spot removal and counterspells protect key pieces and disrupt opposing game plans, while defensive enchantments like Propaganda shield life totals as the flying swarm closes out the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alela, Artful Provocateur
  • 1 All That Glitters
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Grace
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Empyrean Eagle
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Etchings of the Chosen
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Artisans
  • 1 Faerie Bladecrafter
  • 1 Faerie Formation
  • 1 Faerie Harbinger
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Faerie Vandal
  • 1 Favorable Winds
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glen Elendra Liege
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Hallowed Haunting
  • 1 Halo Forager
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Intangible Virtue
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Rootborn Defenses
  • 1 Scion of Oona
  • 1 Secluded Glen
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellstutter Sprite
  • 1 Sprite Noble
  • 1 Starnheim Courser
  • 1 Stolen by the Fae
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire