cheap maralen by Dominight

Format: Commander

Commander: Maralen, Fae Ascendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck combines Elf mana ramp and Faerie evasion under Maralen, Fae Ascendant. In the opening turns, mana creatures accelerate development to deploy Maralen on Turn 4. Every entering Elf or Faerie exiles cards from opponents' libraries, allowing one free spell to be cast each turn based on your typal creature count. The midgame floods the board with flying and ground tokens using cards like Elven Ambush, Faebloom Trick, and Notorious Throng, turning combat connections into massive card draw through Edric, Spymaster of Trest, Bident of Thassa, and Coastal Piracy. The deck wins by overrunning opponents with Elvish Warmaster activations and typal buffs over two combat rotations, or by assembling an infinite flicker exile combo using Deadeye Navigator and Cloud of Faeries.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Champions of the Perfect
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dwynen's Elite
  • 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
  • 1 Elven Ambush
  • 1 Elven Chorus
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faebloom Trick
  • 1 Faerie Duelist
  • 1 Faerie Formation
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Feywild Visitor
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glamer Gifter
  • 1 Glen Elendra Guardian
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lys Alana Huntmaster
  • 1 Maraleaf Pixie
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Miara, Thorn of the Glade
  • 1 Morcant's Loyalist
  • 1 Notorious Throng
  • 1 Nymris, Oona's Trickster
  • 1 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Presence of Gond
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Prowess of the Fair
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Quickling
  • 1 Quirion Ranger
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Scuttling Sentinel
  • 1 Selfless Safewright
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Stutter
  • 1 Stolen by the Fae
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Offering
  • 1 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
  • 1 The Indomitable
  • 1 Trystan's Command
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Wildborn Preserver
  • 1 Windswift Slice
  • 1 Wirewood Symbiote
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast