Eclipsed Faerie Swarm by TheAndrewsArchives

Format: Commander

Commander: Alela, Cunning Conqueror

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Faerie flash-tempo build commanded by Alela, Cunning Conqueror. It wins through incremental evasive combat damage, life drain, and board control. The core strategy revolves around casting instant-speed spells and flash creatures during each opponent's turn to repeatedly trigger Alela, generating an army of 1/1 flying Faerie Rogue tokens. These tokens trigger Alela's combat ability upon dealing damage, goading key opposing threats and directing hostile attacks away from your life total and into other players. The list is supported by kindred lords like Scion of Oona and Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor, card draw engines including Kindred Discovery and Faerie Mastermind, and an extensive suite of low-cost counterspells and removal. While lacking compact two-card infinite combos, the deck achieves consistent victories by draining opponents with Obyra, Dreaming Duelist, clearing blockers with Cyclonic Rift, and overpowering opponents in the air.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alela, Cunning Conqueror
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
• 1 Bitterblossom
• 1 Bloodline Bidding
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
• 1 Castle Locthwain
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
• 1 Cloud of Faeries
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consider
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Creeping Tar Pit
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Dawn-Blessed Pennant
• 1 Dig Through Time
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dream Fracture
• 1 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Faerie Conclave
• 1 Faerie Formation
• 1 Faerie Harbinger
• 1 Faerie Macabre
• 1 Faerie Mastermind
• 1 Faerie Seer
• 1 Faerie Tauntings
• 1 Faerie Trickery
• 1 Fatal Push
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Flitterwing Nuisance
• 1 Glamer Gifter
• 1 Glamermite
• 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1 Glen Elendra Guardian
• 1 Glen Elendra's Answer
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare
• 1 Illusion Spinners
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Into the Story
• 9 Island
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Memory Deluge
• 1 Mornsong Aria
• 1 Murderous Cut
• 1 Mutavault
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
• 1 Oona's Grace
• 1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
• 1 Opt
• 1 Pestermite
• 1 Puppeteer Clique
• 1 Quickling
• 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 River of Tears
• 1 Scion of Oona
• 1 Secluded Glen
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spell Snare
• 1 Spellstutter Sprite
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
• 1 Thieving Sprite
• 1 Thoughtseize
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Vendilion Clique
• 1 Watery Grave