Maralen by Octagonalvia

Format: Commander

Commander: Maralen, Fae Ascendant

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This Sultai Elf/Faerie deck is built around Maralen, Fae Ascendant as a five-mana value engine: every entering Elf or Faerie exiles two cards from an opponent's library, and once per turn Maralen free-casts one of those exiled spells with mana value up to the number of Elves/Faeries you control. The rest of the deck is a wide tribal board that grows through token makers, landfall triggers, +1/+1 counters, and lord effects. The primary path is a midgame combat kill, often accelerated by Doubling Season plus Rite of Replication. Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally supports the Elf plan rather than functioning as a hidden commander. Without Maralen, the deck can still win as an Elf tribal deck, but it loses its main card-advantage engine.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adventurous Impulse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bioengineered Future
• 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
• 1 Cauldron of Essence
• 1 Circuitous Route
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contaminated Aquifer
• 1 Convolute
• 1 Cost of Brilliance
• 1 Dawn-Blessed Pennant
• 1 Dina's Guidance
• 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Dismal Backwater
• 1 Divert Disaster
• 1 Doubling Season
• 1 Dream Harvest
• 1 Dream Seizer
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Dwynen's Elite
• 1 Eclipsed Elf
• 1 Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Elvish Regrower
• 1 Elvish Warmaster
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faebloom Trick
• 1 Fetid Pools
• 1 Firdoch Core
• 1 Flitterwing Nuisance
• 1 Flourishing Defenses
• 1 Foreboding Landscape
• 7 Forest
• 1 Gathering Stone
• 1 Gloom Ripper
• 1 Go Forth
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Grapple with Death
• 1 Haunted Mire
• 1 High Fae Trickster
• 1 High Perfect Morcant
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Immaculate Magistrate
• 1 Imperious Perfect
• 1 Inexorable Tide
• 6 Island
• 1 Jungle Hollow
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Mana Sculpt
• 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
• 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1 Mirrormind Crown
• 1 Mocking Sprite
• 1 Moon-Vigil Adherents
• 1 Morcant's Eyes
• 1 Morcant's Loyalist
• 1 Necromantic Selection
• 1 Opt
• 1 Opulent Palace
• 1 Perfect Intimidation
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Rite of Replication
• 1 Safewright Cavalry
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Think Twice
• 1 Thirst for Identity
• 1 Thornweald Archer
• 1 Thornwood Falls
• 1 Thranduil's Company
• 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
• 1 Trystan's Command
• 1 Unbury
• 1 Unforgiving Aim
• 1 Virulent Emissary
• 1 Voracious Tome-Skimmer
• 1 Wardens of the Cycle
• 1 Wild Unraveling
• 1 Wilt
• 1 Zagoth Crystal