WIP Control Faeries by nucleus

Format: Commander

Commander: Alela, Cunning Conqueror

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a flash-tempo and tribal control deck commanded by Alela, Cunning Conqueror. The strategy focuses on casting spells on opponents' turns to generate an evasive army of 1/1 Faerie Rogue tokens. By attacking each opponent with flying Faeries, Alela goads their most dangerous creatures, forcing opponents to exhaust their resources against one another while protecting your life total. The deck backs up this plan with a dense suite of efficient counterspells, bounce spells, and ability-nullifying auras that trigger Alela while answering key opposing threats. Once a critical mass of Faeries is established, the deck finishes the game using powerful team-wide payoffs like Shadow Puppeteers, Banner of Kinship, Raise the Palisade, or a prowled Notorious Throng. The deck operates primarily at instant speed, leaving mana open on every turn to interact, draw cards, and build an evasive clock.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alela, Cunning Conqueror
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 As Foretold
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chain of Vapor
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Eaten by Piranhas
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faebloom Trick
  • 1 Faerie Artisans
  • 1 Faerie Fencing
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lofty Denial
  • 1 Malleable Impostor
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mocking Doppelganger
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Noggle the Mind
  • 1 Notorious Throng
  • 1 Nymris, Oona's Trickster
  • 1 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scion of Oona
  • 1 Secluded Glen
  • 1 Shadow Puppeteers
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spell Stutter
  • 1 Spellstutter Sprite
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unwelcome Sprite
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Utter Insignificance
  • 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
  • 1 Vapor Snag
  • 1 Voracious Tome-Skimmer
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Withering Torment