Maralen, Fae Ascendant builds a wide board of Elves and Faeries, using every creature entering to exile cards from opponents' libraries while simultaneously casting those exiled spells for free when your tribal count is high enough. The deck floods the board through token generation from Faerie producers like Bitterblossom, Elf token doublers, and changeling creatures that count as both tribes, all while leveraging anthem effects and mana dorks to accelerate and pump the army. The primary win conditions are draining opponents through mass life loss from Lathril, Blade of the Elves or Obyra's enter triggers, countering key spells with a suite of Faerie-scaled counterspells to protect the gameplan, and occasionally stealing an extra turn via Notorious Throng after Faerie Rogues connect in combat.

Maralen, Fae Ascendant decklist

• Alchemist's Refuge
• Alela, Cunning Conqueror
• An Offer You Can't Refuse
• Arcane Signet
• Beast Whisperer
• Bender's Waterskin
• Bitterbloom Bearer
• Bitterblossom
• Bloom Tender
• Bojuka Bog
• Boseiju, Who Endures
• Cavern of Souls
• Celestial Reunion
• Champions of the Perfect
• Chomping Changeling
• Cloud of Faeries
• Cloudstone Curio
• Command Tower
• Deadeye Navigator
• Distant Melody
• Doubling Season
• Eclipsed Realms
• Elven Ambush
• Elves of Deep Shadow
• Elvish Archdruid
• Elvish Mystic
• Elvish Promenade
• Elvish Warmaster
• Emergence Zone
• Faebloom Trick
• Faerie Conclave
• Faerie Harbinger
• Faerie Mastermind
• Firdoch Core
• 4× Forest
• Formidable Speaker
• Fyndhorn Elves
• Galadhrim Ambush
• Glen Elendra Archmage
• Glen Elendra Guardian
• Glen Elendra's Answer
• Heroic Intervention
• High Fae Trickster
• High Perfect Morcant
• Illusion Spinners
• Imperious Perfect
• 4× Island
• Kindred Discovery
• Lathril, Blade of the Elves
• Leyline of Anticipation
• Llanowar Elves
• Maraleaf Pixie
• Mistbind Clique
• Mistrise Village
• Morcant's Loyalist
• Notorious Throng
• Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
• Otawara, Soaring City
• Patchwork Banner
• Path of Ancestry
• Priest of Titania
• Reclamation Sage
• Reflections of Littjara
• Reliquary Tower
• Rogue's Passage
• Run Away Together
• Scarblade's Malice
• Scion of Oona
• Secluded Glen
• Shifting Woodland
• Sol Ring
• Spell Stutter
• Spellstutter Sprite
• Springleaf Parade
• Stolen by the Fae
• 5× Swamp
• Swan Song
• Sylvan Offering
• Talion, the Kindly Lord
• Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
• Three Tree City
• Tyvar Kell
• Unforgiving Aim
• Urborg Elf
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• Virulent Emissary
• Voracious Tome-Skimmer
• Wirewood Lodge
• Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth