alela by Cronana

Format: Commander

Commander: Alela, Artful Provocateur

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Esper "cast artifacts and enchantments" value deck built around Alela, Artful Provocateur. The core plan is simple but powerful: every artifact or enchantment spell cast turns into a 1/1 flying Faerie, then layers of lords, token doublers, combat-draw, and drain effects convert that board into an overwhelming aerial threat. The deck also leans heavily on Faerie synergies from Obyra, Dreaming Duelist, Bitterblossom, and Roaming Throne, while Anointed Procession and Thalisse, Reverent Medium amplify token generation. There are no infinite combos; instead, the deck wins through grinding card advantage, building a wide flying army, and finishing with either an alpha strike, Mirkwood Bats/Obyra, Dreaming Duelist drain, or a big Exsanguinate / Bolas's Citadel activation. Alela is the engine, but the 99 contains enough secondary token and draw engines to keep functioning even if she is answered.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Ruins
• 1 Alela, Artful Provocateur
• 1 All That Glitters
• 1 Altar of Dementia
• 1 Ancient Den
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Anointed Procession
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Bident of Thassa
• 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
• 1 Bitterblossom
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Carrion Feeder
• 1 Cathars' Crusade
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Coastal Piracy
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Court of Grace
• 1 Darksteel Mutation
• 1 Doom Variant
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Empyrean Eagle
• 1 Etchings of the Chosen
• 1 Etherium Sculptor
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Faerie Bladecrafter
• 1 Favorable Winds
• 1 Flickering Ward
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Foundry Inspector
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Idol of Oblivion
• 1 Inkshield
• 1 Intangible Virtue
• 5 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Kindred Dominance
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mirrormade
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 5 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Raffine's Tower
• 1 Reconnaissance Mission
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1 Scion of Oona
• 1 Seat of the Synod
• 1 Shadowbringers
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Starnheim Courser
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Thunderclap Wyvern
• 1 Time Wipe
• 1 Vampiric Rites
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Vault of Whispers
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Watcher of the Spheres
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Winged Words