Maralen’s Friends by Esraom

Format: Commander

Commander: Maralen, Fae Ascendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This Sultai deck combines Elf mana acceleration and Faerie tempo under the command of Maralen, Fae Ascendant. The primary strategy utilizes low-cost mana dorks and ramp spells to cast Maralen on Turn 4 alongside early typal creatures. Maralen turns creature density into immense card advantage and tempo by exiling cards from opponents' libraries and casting them without paying mana costs, utilizing flash Faeries to trigger casts on opponents' turns. The deck scales this advantage with secondary engines like Alela, Cunning Conqueror for token generation and goad disruption, Obyra, Dreaming Duelist for persistent life drain, and Ezuri, Claw of Progress or Thranduil, Sindarin Liege to build an overwhelming combat force. A rich suite of counterspells and targeted removal protects key threats and disrupts opposing game plans while the evasive board closes the game over two combat cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alela, Cunning Conqueror
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blossombind
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Cantankerous Keepers
  • 1 Champions of the Perfect
  • 1 Changeling Wayfinder
  • 1 Chase Inspiration
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Deed
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dissipate
  • 1 Dissolve
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Down in the Valley
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eclipsed Elf
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elvenking's Halls
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enchanted River's Grasp
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Ezuri, Claw of Progress
  • 1 Faebloom Trick
  • 1 Faerie Formation
  • 1 Faerie Harbinger
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flitterwing Nuisance
  • 1 Flow State
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Glamer Gifter
  • 1 Glamermite
  • 1 Glen Elendra Guardian
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Illusion Spinners
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Malleable Impostor
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Mischievous Mystic
  • 1 Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
  • 1 Moonglove Extractor
  • 1 Morcant's Eyes
  • 1 Muse Seeker
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nymris, Oona's Trickster
  • 1 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
  • 1 Oko, Lorwyn Liege // Oko, Shadowmoor Scion
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Peel from Reality
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Prime Speaker Vannifar
  • 1 Proctor's Gaze
  • 1 Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Stolen by the Fae
  • 1 Subterranean Cavern
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Thranduil's Company
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Topiary Lecturer
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Voracious Tome-Skimmer
  • 1 We Say Thee Nay!
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zimone's Experiment