Spellthief by user5128341

Format: Commander

Commander: Maralen, Fae Ascendant

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Maralen, Fae Ascendant is the deck's engine, not its only finisher. The primary plan is to make a wide Elf/Faerie board with Bitterblossom, Imperious Perfect, and token producers while every entering creature exiles the top two cards of an opponent's library. Those exiles stock Maralen's once-per-turn free cast, letting the deck use enemy answers and haymakers without paying mana. The secondary path is to keep the board dense and win with Craterhoof Behemoth or Triumph of the Hordes, with Oona and Lathril filling the board if Maralen is taxed. There is no hidden commander; the deck is built around Maralen's elf/faerie trigger and can fall back on an elf-ball plan if it is unavailable.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alela, Cunning Conqueror
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
• 1 Bitterblossom
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Cabal Pit
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Chomping Changeling
• 1 Cloud of Faeries
• 1 Coat of Arms
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Deathrite Shaman
• 1 Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen
• 1 Eclipsed Realms
• 1 Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Elvish Champion
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Elvish Promenade
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
• 1 Faerie Mastermind
• 7 Forest
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1 Glen Elendra Guardian
• 1 Gonti, Night Minister
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 High Fae Trickster
• 1 Immaculate Magistrate
• 1 Imperious Perfect
• 3 Island
• 1 Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief
• 1 Joraga Treespeaker
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Lys Alana Huntmaster
• 1 Maraleaf Pixie
• 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
• 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1 Maskwood Nexus
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
• 1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
• 1 Opulent Palace
• 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Panharmonicon
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Priest of Titania
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Scion of Oona
• 1 Selfless Safewright
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spell Stutter
• 1 Spellstutter Sprite
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
• 1 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
• 1 Thranduil's Company
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Triumph of the Hordes
• 1 Underground Mortuary
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Vedalken Orrery
• 1 Vendilion Clique
• 1 Voracious Tome-Skimmer
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Yavimaya Coast