FAERIES III by gooseguard

Format: Commander

Commander: Alela, Cunning Conqueror

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Dimir draw-go tempo strategy helmed by Alela, Cunning Conqueror. The core game plan focuses on deploying cheap mana rocks and early setup pieces before casting Alela on Turn 4. Once Alela is established, the deck transitions entirely into playing on opponents' turns, casting efficient 1-to-2 mana counterspells, bounce spells, and cantrips to generate 1/1 flying Faerie Rogue tokens at each opponent's turn step. In combat, connecting with these evasive fliers triggers Alela's goad ability, forcing opposing threats to attack each other and preventing crackbacks. The deck transitions into a lethal clock around Turn 6 by resolving high-impact asymmetric payoffs such as Notorious Throng, Gravitational Shift, or Raise the Palisade. It maintains high resilience through dense countermagic and phasing protection while slowly draining opponents through evasive combat and goad attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alela, Cunning Conqueror
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anticipate
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
  • 1 Cast Down
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Control Magic
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Cunning Nightbonder
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emrakul's Messenger
  • 1 Faerie Conclave
  • 1 Faerie Vandal
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glamer Gifter
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Gravitational Shift
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Impulse
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Into the Roil
  • 20 Island
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Miscalculation
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Mistbind Clique
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Notorious Throng
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Peek
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Quickling
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Scion of Oona
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sower of Temptation
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spell Stutter
  • 1 Spellstutter Sprite
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Syncopate
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tegwyll's Scouring
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undying Evil
  • 1 Vapor Snag
  • 1 Vendilion Clique
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
  • 1 Withering Torment