Maralen by Zweaty_J

Format: Commander

Creator: Zweaty_J

Commander: Maralen, Fae Ascendant

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This deck is a highly synergistic Sultai (BGU) tribal strategy helmed by Maralen, Fae Ascendant, focusing on Elves and Faeries to generate overwhelming value. The primary game plan revolves around deploying a critical mass of low-cost Elves to ramp mana and increase the tribal count, followed by casting Maralen. Once the commander is online, the deck utilizes a suite of flash creatures and token generators to trigger Maralen's ability on both your turn and your opponents' turns. By exiling cards from opponents' libraries, the deck effectively steals their best spells and casts them for free, bypassing mana costs entirely. The deck forgoes traditional infinite combos in favor of massive combat inevitability through Elf lords like Elvish Archdruid and High Perfect Morcant, alongside the sheer card advantage generated by the commander. Secondary win conditions include utilizing Rite of Replication for explosive board states. It plays as a resilient, adaptive midrange deck that scales in power based on the opponents' decks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Helix
  • 1 Altered Ego
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Buster Sword
  • 1 Celestial Reunion
  • 1 Champions of the Perfect
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Creakwood Safewright
  • 1 Deathbloom Ritualist
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dwynen's Elite
  • 1 Eclipsed Elf
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Elvish Regrower
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fate Transfer
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Glamer Gifter
  • 1 Glen Elendra Guardian
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Gloom Ripper
  • 1 Gohn, Town of Ruin
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Graveshifter
  • 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
  • 1 High Perfect Morcant
  • 1 Illegitimate Business
  • 1 Illusion Spinners
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
  • 1 Lie in Wait
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lush Oasis
  • 1 Lys Alana Dignitary
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Meditation Pools
  • 1 Mistbind Clique
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Moon-Vigil Adherents
  • 1 Morcant's Loyalist
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Oath of the Ancient Wood
  • 1 Pestermite
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Progenitor Mimic
  • 1 Rancor
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Safewright Cavalry
  • 1 Sapling Nursery
  • 1 Scarblade's Malice
  • 1 Shimmerwilds Growth
  • 1 Simic Guildgate
  • 1 Sinister Hideout
  • 1 Sowing Mycospawn
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Stoic Grove-Guide
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Treno, Dark City
  • 1 Uncharted Haven
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unforgiving Aim
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Voracious Tome-Skimmer
  • 1 Wardens of the Cycle
  • 1 Wear Down
  • 1 Web of Life and Destiny
  • 1 Webweaver Changeling
  • 1 Wildwood Rebirth
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Witherbloom Campus
  • 1 Witherbloom Command