elves and faeries stealing your fun by user9762999

Format: Commander

Commander: Maralen, Fae Ascendant

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This Sultai deck blends Elf mana velocity and Faerie flash synergies under Maralen, Fae Ascendant. In the opening turns, low-cost mana dorks and scaling mana generators like Priest of Titania, Bloom Tender, and Gaea's Cradle accelerate development. Once Maralen enters, every entering Elf or Faerie exiles cards from opposing libraries, giving you free spells every turn while drawing cards off engines like Beast Whisperer and Guardian Project. The deck closes games through two primary angles: generating large amounts of mana to cast a lethal Finale of Devastation (X>=10) that overruns the table with hasty, buffed creatures, or assembling Aluren with Cloudstone Curio to bounce cheap creatures endlessly, exiling all opposing libraries with Maralen or draining life with Obyra, Dreaming Duelist. A high-quality suite of free counterspells and flash enablers protects your board and lets you win on your terms.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Alela, Cunning Conqueror
  • 1 Aluren
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Champions of the Perfect
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Cloudstone Curio
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dawnhand Dissident
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Regrower
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Glen Elendra Guardian
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Heritage Druid
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Maraleaf Pixie
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
  • 1 Oko, Thief of Crowns
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Selfless Safewright
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellstutter Sprite
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tyvar the Bellicose
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wirewood Symbiote
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome