Alela, Esper by Bongo

Format: Commander

Commander: Alela, Artful Provocateur

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 20

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper aggressive-control build centered on Alela, Artful Provocateur. Its strategy revolves around casting artifacts and enchantments to generate an evasive flying Faerie army while answering key opposing threats with versatile removal and countermagic. Once Alela enters on Turn 4, every noncreature permanent spell doubles as board presence and chip damage. The deck amplifies its aerial swarm using anthem effects from Alela and Syr Vondam, the Lucent, burst draw from Harmonized Crescendo, and token overruns via Champions from Beyond. However, the deck operates with a lean mana base of 32 lands and minimal early ramp, which limits explosive starts. It relies heavily on natural draws due to a lack of tutors, and its reliance on combat damage over multiple turn rotations leaves its board vulnerable to sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alela, Artful Provocateur
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Banishing Light
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blue Mage's Cane
  • 1 Bound by Moonsilver
  • 1 Champions from Beyond
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Convolute
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Cryogen Relic
  • 1 Cryoshatter
  • 1 Cut a Deal
  • 1 Dauntless Scrapbot
  • 1 Dawn-Blessed Pennant
  • 1 Dazzling Theater // Prop Room
  • 1 Decode Transmissions
  • 1 Desculpting Blast
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Divert Disaster
  • 1 Dubious Delicacy
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Final Judgment
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flow State
  • 1 Forum of Amity
  • 1 Glamermite
  • 1 Glen Elendra's Answer
  • 1 Gravkill
  • 1 Gremlin Tamer
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Hideous End
  • 1 Hylderblade
  • 1 Into the Story
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Krovod Haunch
  • 1 Liminal Hold
  • 1 Lofty Dreams
  • 1 Lost in Space
  • 1 Masterful Flourish
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Omni-Changeling
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Pinnacle Starcage
  • 1 Pious Interdiction
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Prideful Feastling
  • 1 Pyrrhic Strike
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Rabid Attack
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Run Behind
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sleep Paralysis
  • 1 Spiral into Solitude
  • 1 Squire's Lightblade
  • 1 Summon: Good King Mog XII
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Sygg's Command
  • 1 Syr Vondam, the Lucent
  • 1 Temporal Cleansing
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Unexpected Assistance
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Unwelcome Sprite
  • 1 Uthros Scanship
  • 1 Vanish from Sight
  • 1 Wild Unraveling
  • 1 Winged Words
  • 1 Zero Point Ballad