Alela, Cunning Conqueror by exodious13

Format: Commander

Commander: Alela, Cunning Conqueror

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

An instant-speed faerie control deck built around Alela, Cunning Conqueror. The first spell on each opponent's turn makes a flying token, and those tokens goad enemy attackers, keeping the table honest while Alela, Nymris, and Bitterblossom develop a board. Card advantage comes from Nymris, Enduring Curiosity, Kindred Discovery, and Rhystic Study, and the same flash shell carries 13 counterspells and cheap removal. The fastest kill is Demonic Consultation + Thassa's Oracle, but the primary game plan is a gradual evasive faerie army supported by Notorious Throng and Shadow Puppeteers. Hullbreaker Horror acts as a flash lock piece and can generate looped mana removal. It is a tempo-control deck with a compact combo finish rather than a dedicated combo deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alela, Cunning Conqueror
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bitterblossom
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
• 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consider
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Demonic Consultation
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Enduring Curiosity
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faerie Conclave
• 1 Faerie Mastermind
• 1 Faerie Tauntings
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Flusterstorm
• 1 Force of Negation
• 1 Force of Will
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1 Gloomlake Verge
• 1 High Fae Trickster
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 7 Island
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Kindred Dominance
• 1 Leyline of Anticipation
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Misleading Signpost
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Notorious Throng
• 1 Nymris, Oona's Trickster
• 1 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
• 1 Oona's Blackguard
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Raise the Palisade
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Reconnaissance Mission
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Scion of Oona
• 1 Secluded Glen
• 1 Shadow Puppeteers
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Snap
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spellstutter Sprite
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
• 1 Thassa's Oracle
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Undercity Sewers
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Vendilion Clique
• 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
• 1 Withering Torment