Maralen by user2283053

Format: Commander

Commander: Maralen, Fae Ascendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai Elf and Faerie midrange deck commanded by Maralen, Fae Ascendant. It combines efficient green mana acceleration with Dimir flash creatures, token generation, and reactive disruption to fuel a powerful theft and typal swarm engine. Early turns establish mana velocity through low-cost mana dorks like Elvish Mystic and Priest of Titania, deploying cheap Elves and Faeries to build board presence. Casting Maralen on Turn 4 immediately activates her ability to exile opponents' libraries on creature entry and cast exiled spells for free once each turn based on your creature count. Supported by flash enablers like Leyline of Anticipation and High Fae Trickster, the deck steals and casts spells on every opponent's turn. The midgame solidifies board dominance through counterspells and token multipliers before closing the game around Turn 7 with an overwhelming flying swarm buffed by Elvish Warmaster, Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor, or an extra-turn strike via Notorious Throng.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Alela, Cunning Conqueror
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage of Echoes
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Champions of the Perfect
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Harbinger
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Farseek
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Galadhrim Ambush
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Glen Elendra Guardian
  • 1 Glen Elendra's Answer
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Maraleaf Pixie
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Notorious Throng
  • 1 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
  • 1 Oko, Lorwyn Liege // Oko, Shadowmoor Scion
  • 1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Scion of Oona
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selfless Safewright
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Stutter
  • 1 Spellstutter Sprite
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Stolen by the Fae
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Vedalken Orrery
  • 1 Voracious Tome-Skimmer
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zagoth Triome