Maralen, Fae Ascendant by banditfox

Format: Commander

Commander: Maralen, Fae Ascendant

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Maralen, Fae Ascendant heads a Sultai Elf/Faerie swarm deck. The primary plan is to ramp early, land Maralen once the tribe count is meaningful, and use every Elf/Faerie entry to exile opponent cards and unlock a free spell each turn. The secondary path is Lathril, Blade of the Elves, acting as the hidden commander: combat tokens and the ten-Elf activation steal games once a board develops. Reflections of Littjara and Maskwood Nexus multiply creature spells and triggers. The deck is not a fast combo deck; it wins by out-drawing, out-token-making, and draining the table through Obyra and Lathril.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Blossoming Defense
  • 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
  • 1 Champions of the Perfect
  • 1 Changeling Wayfinder
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dawn's Light Archer
  • 1 Dawnhand Eulogist
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dwynen's Elite
  • 1 Eclipsed Elf
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faebloom Trick
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Glamer Gifter
  • 1 Glamermite
  • 1 Glen Elendra Guardian
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 High Perfect Morcant
  • 1 Illusion Spinners
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Into the Fae Court
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Legolas, Counter of Kills
  • 1 Lifespring Druid
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lys Alana Dignitary
  • 1 Lys Alana Informant
  • 1 Maraleaf Pixie
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Meditation Pools
  • 1 Mirrormind Crown
  • 1 Mischievous Sneakling
  • 1 Moon-Vigil Adherents
  • 1 Moonglove Extractor
  • 1 Morcant's Eyes
  • 1 Morcant's Loyalist
  • 1 Mutant Town
  • 1 Nightmare Sower
  • 1 Nymris, Oona's Trickster
  • 1 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
  • 1 Omni-Changeling
  • 1 Paradox Gardens
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Scarblade's Malice
  • 1 Selfless Safewright
  • 1 Serpent's Pass
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Silvan Reveler
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellscorn Coven // Take It Back
  • 1 Stolen by the Fae
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Temporal Cleansing
  • 1 Thornweald Archer
  • 1 Topiary Lecturer
  • 1 Unforgiving Aim
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Voracious Tome-Skimmer