what about Leonin Arbiter and Gemstone Caverns

Agent_Fire To be able to fetch on my turn after flashing Maralen in, with leonin in play I need to pay 2 and won't have the mana to cast Mindlock Orb. Also, already in the maybeboard.

Gemstone Caverns I really, really don't want to draw into it with a 3 color deck that needs a colored mana every turn with (BB) (UU) in mana costs.

But thanks alot for your suggestions if you have anything more I'm all hears :)

I'm a little confused with your lands because you have 2 Marsh Flats and 2 Flooded Strand, yet no islands, swamps or plains to search for.

Sizorninja77 Hello mate! here's what you are looking for!

Watery Grave - Hallowed Fountain

These are fetchable.

But lands still need work. I'm not sure about fetch/shock lands in a deck based on life loss every turn. (Maralen)

Uncanny_Ghoul Did you see saffron's decklist? I like ours a lot more but I haven't playtested either so.

YourBoi-tman TO be honest I think his list is really bad.

I did tell him that I felt green wasn't the right call for the deck and he said he didn't really know how to build Maralen either so.

I can't tell if this deck is any better though.

I playtested quite a few times and I hit maralen combo pretty often now. thanks to remand/scour/opt.

I just goldfished a couple of hands. How long does it usually take you to establish the lock?

Turn 5-8, 7 most often. Not too bad I suppose. Definetly not competitive though.

Been working on this for a while now, it is sweet in a death and taxes build. Maralen Hatebears is my take on it, with all of the issues with this deck sovled for the most part.

SynergyBuild thanks but I'm currently trying to do something else with this list. Everyone builds Maralen in the same shell and that something I'm keenly staying away from.

But thanks for passing by :)

Have you considered Archive Trap? If you have Maleren out it's a free mill 13.

However, if you're facing a graveyard deck, it's just a dead card.

PurpleGame0 thanks for the suggestion!

I'm not a fan of Archive Trap, if the lock is in place, I'm giving the opponent a chance to hit something which can come back from the raveyard (dredge/zombie/flashback/etc). I'm not entirely sure what else it does in this kind of deck tbh?

Unless We go an alternative plan and aim for a mill deck with a lock as alt/wincon.

Nice! When I was playing with the deck - Dark Confidant and Anticipate were my go to cards. The reason being was that they get you more cards without "drawing" them.

The typical dream play;

Turn 1 Inquisition of Kozilek/Thoughtseize.

Turn 2 Dark Confidant

Turn 3 Maralen of the Mornsong

Turn 4 Mindlock Orb

+1 by the way!