maralen by BigMozzarella

Format: Commander

Commander: Maralen, Fae Ascendant

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is an Elf and Faerie kindred midrange strategy led by Maralen, Fae Ascendant. The game plan revolves around deploying cheap mana-producing Elves and evasive Faeries in the opening turns, establishing mana stability, and casting Maralen on Turn 5. Upon entering and with subsequent kindred entries, Maralen exiles cards from opponents' libraries and casts them for free based on creature count, generating continuous card advantage and mana tempo. The deck converts this board presence into a lethal clock around Turn 6 through anthems and overrun effects like Thranduil, Sindarin Liege and Root Manipulation, closing the game through combat damage by Turn 8. While the deck boasts strong kindred redundancy and robust recovery through token generators and backup engines like Vivien, Monsters' Advocate, it relies heavily on taplands that introduce early tempo friction and remains vulnerable to board wipes due to limited mass protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Barrow Naughty
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blighted Burgeoning
  • 1 Carnivorous Cultivator // Enroot
  • 1 Changeling Wayfinder
  • 1 Citanul Stalwart
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dance of the Tumbleweeds
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawn's Light Archer
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dreadship Reef
  • 1 Dream Seizer
  • 1 Eclipsed Elf
  • 1 Edge of Autumn
  • 1 Elven Raft-Steerer
  • 1 Elvenking's Halls
  • 1 Elvenking's Harper
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth
  • 1 Emil, Vastlands Roamer
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Foggy Bottom Swamp
  • 1 Follow the Lumarets
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Foul Orchard
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Glamermite
  • 1 Gloom Ripper
  • 1 Graveshifter
  • 1 Hellish Rebuke
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 1 Illegitimate Business
  • 1 Iron-Shield Elf
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Joraga Visionary
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Meditation Pools
  • 1 Mirkwood Nurturer
  • 1 Moonglove Extractor
  • 1 Morcant's Eyes
  • 1 Mutant Town
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nightveil Sprite
  • 1 Norwood Priestess
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Paradox Gardens
  • 1 Paradox Surveyor
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Proctor's Gaze
  • 1 Promising Vein
  • 1 Quandrix Campus
  • 1 Relentless Pursuit
  • 1 Root Manipulation
  • 1 Serpent's Pass
  • 1 Sharpshooter Elf
  • 1 Shoot the Sheriff
  • 1 Silhana Ledgewalker
  • 1 Silvan Reveler
  • 1 Simic Guildgate
  • 1 Sinister Hideout
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stingblade Assassin
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Tajuru Blightblade
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Theorix Annex
  • 1 Thornweald Archer
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Transformative Commons
  • 1 Unforgiving Aim
  • 1 Unscrupulous Agent
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wolfwillow Haven
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Woodland Stream
  • 1 Woodland Weavemaster