Alela by Schmeats

Format: Commander

Commander: Alela, Artful Provocateur

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Alela, Artful Provocateur leads this Esper Faerie tribal deck that blends a wide army of evasive flyers with a dense enchantment-and-artifact subtheme. The primary game plan is to deploy Alela early, then every artifact or enchantment spell creates a 1/1 Faerie token. The deck amplifies that board with anthem effects like Favorable Winds, Intangible Virtue, Flowering of the White Tree, and Etchings of the Chosen, turning a swarm of small fliers into a lethal clock. Bitterblossom and Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor provide sustained token generation and card draw. Zur the Enchanter acts as a second command-zone tutor, fetching low-cost enchantments such as Ghostly Prison, Land Tax, or Smothering Tithe. The deck has no explicit infinite combos; it wins through incremental combat damage, with Overwhelming Splendor as a late-game lock piece. A modest interaction suite with counterspells, spot removal, and pillowfort enchantments protects the board while the army grows.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Alela, Artful Provocateur
  • 1 All That Glitters
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Changing Loyalty
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Curse of Verbosity
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Empyrean Eagle
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Etchings of the Chosen
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Favorable Winds
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Flowering of the White Tree
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel
  • 1 Glen Elendra Guardian
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Intangible Virtue
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Mace of the Valiant
  • 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overwhelming Splendor
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rally the Ranks
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Renewed Solidarity
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Scion of Oona
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spear of Heliod
  • 1 Spellstutter Sprite
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Unwanted Remake
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Zur the Enchanter