Maralen, Fae Bae by Jaenari
Format: Commander
Commander: Maralen, Fae Ascendant
Bracket: 3
Deck overview
This is a Sultai Elf/Faerie tribal deck helmed by Maralen, Fae Ascendant, built to flood the board with cheap Elves and Faeries and convert every single tribal ETB into raw card advantage. Each Elf or Faerie that enters exiles the top two cards of an opponent's library, and once per turn Maralen lets you cast one of those exiled spells for free as long as its mana value is at or below your Elf/Faerie count - a snowballing engine that turns a wide board into free spells. The deck leans on mana dorks like Priest of Titania and Woodland Weavemaster for explosive mana, landfall synergies from Thranduil, Sindarin Liege and Silvan Reveler to keep the board growing, and wins through go-wide combat backed by lords (Imperious Perfect, Morcant's Loyalist) or the alternate drain lines of Lathril, Blade of the Elves and Poison-Tip Archer. It is a midrange value deck with no infinite combos, relying on incremental advantage and a critical mass of tribal bodies.
Decklist (100 cards)
- 1 Arbor Elf
- 1 Arcane Signet
- 1 Blossoming Defense
- 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
- 1 Bushwhack
- 1 Champions of the Perfect
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Cultivate
- 1 Dawn-Blessed Pennant
- 1 Deathcap Glade
- 1 Dispel
- 1 District Guide
- 1 Down in the Valley
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Druid of the Cowl
- 1 Dwynen's Elite
- 1 Elven Raft-Steerer
- 1 Elvenking's Halls
- 1 Elvish Harbinger
- 1 Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth
- 1 Explore
- 1 Fabled Passage
- 1 Faerie Impostor
- 8 Forest
- 1 Formidable Speaker
- 1 Frontier Guide
- 1 Fyndhorn Elves
- 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
- 1 Greenweaver Druid
- 1 High Fae Trickster
- 1 High Perfect Morcant
- 1 Hinterland Harbor
- 1 Imperious Perfect
- 1 Incubation Druid
- 5 Island
- 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
- 1 Llanowar Elves
- 1 Lys Alana Huntmaster
- 1 Magic Damper
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Maraleaf Pixie
- 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
- 1 Maskwood Nexus
- 1 Morcant's Loyalist
- 1 Negate
- 1 Ochran Assassin
- 1 Omni-Changeling
- 1 Overflowing Basin
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Paradise Druid
- 1 Path of Ancestry
- 1 Poison-Tip Archer
- 1 Presence of Gond
- 1 Priest of Titania
- 1 Reclamation Sage
- 1 Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll
- 1 Run Away Together
- 1 Scryb Ranger
- 1 Silvan Reveler
- 1 Sodden Verdure
- 1 Sol Ring
- 1 Spell Pierce
- 1 Sultai Ascendancy
- 1 Sultai Charm
- 1 Sunken Hollow
- 5 Swamp
- 1 Sylvan Ranger
- 1 Terramorphic Expanse
- 1 Thornweald Archer
- 1 Thranduil's Company
- 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
- 1 Trystan's Command
- 1 Twilight Mire
- 1 Urborg Elf
- 1 Virulent Emissary
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Wild Rose Rebellion
- 1 Wildborn Preserver
- 1 Wood Elves
- 1 Woodland Cemetery
- 1 Woodland Champion
- 1 Woodland Weavemaster
- 1 Yarok, the Desecrated
- 1 Yavimaya Coast
- 1 Zagoth Triome