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"Let me play among the stars"

In other words, listen to this song while looking at this deck ;)
Groovy
Hello there, and welcome to my Trelasarra, Moon Dancer build.

Deck Premise

This is a more casual brew for FNM. At its core it's a soul sisters deck. The focus is on lifegain effects that trigger often, allowing us to scry regularly. This deck seeks to make use of this engine through the following means:

  • Growing our commander, making use of some power matters cards and evasion-granting effects for Commander damage KO's
  • Manipulating the top of our deck to get value
  • Stacking up lifegain triggers for value

Game Plan

The main game plan with the deck is to assemble one or more value engines. A nice example that this deck can accumulate is combining a token maker, like Attended Healer with an effect that gives us life when a creature enters, like Soul Warden. These can give us a lot of tokens and grow our commander to a threatening size quite quickly. It gets even better with a card like Lurking Predators, who's creatures we hit trigger the warden, making us scry deeper to hit the next creature.

An aspect to Trelasarra that I really liked over similar life-gain commanders is the scry ability, granting us control over what’s on top of our library and gaining value from that through cards like Augur of Autumn, Oracle of Mul Daya and the before mentioned Lurking Predators. This gives Trelasarra a nice twist and provides another avenue to gameplay than just the “gain life + profit” approach.

We can win through combat by generating a lot of tokens and then pumping them with something like Akroma's Will or through Commander damage. Approach of the Second Sun presents an on-theme alternative wincon every now and then, but I ended up removing it because of how hard it is to interact with it. I also avoided alternative life-base wincons such like Felidar Sovereign.

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There is also a +1/+1 counter subtheme in here that I'll probably keep tweaking a bit. It's a nice bonus, but since this isn't a Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn deck, I didn't go overboard with those synergies. Still, cards like Animation Module and Archangel of Thune are great includes here.

A similar thing can be said about the power matter cards. It's a great thing to get every once in a while, but since Trelasalla, Moon Dancer can be removed so easily, I found it too risky to lean further into the power matters theme here. Yet, landing that Rishkar's Expertise or Traverse the Outlands is just too good value to pass up :).

Some other great cards that I want to highlight for Trelasarra builds are Cleric Class, Scholar of New Horizons, Lifegift, Powerleech, Leonin Elder, Terminus and Overwhelming Stampede.

Deckbuilding Considerations

For the deck’s mana curve I tried limiting the number of cards in de 2-cmc slot. I want to be casting my commander on turn 2 every game, so I prioritized 1 and 3 mana value cards over 2-mana equivalents.

The deck also runs little tutors and no infinite combos by design. So no Spike Feeder or Walking Ballista here on purpose. I wanted to create a fun synergistic build, but at a moderate power level. The tutors that I did include can go fetch some nice 1-drops to get better access to lifegain enablers.

Intended Power Level

Category (Jank - Low - Mid - High - Competitive)
Mid
alt

Thanks for checking out this casual brew! And let me know if you think of any nice cards that could find a home in here.

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GL & HF
Beebles

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+1 simply for the song reference, but I love the deck too!

April 6, 2022 2:48 p.m.

Thanks RebelGenius!

April 6, 2022 3:01 p.m.

Upvote because, Frank-ly, I love the name.

June 14, 2022 3:15 p.m.

For a more constructive analysis, I would strongly advise more protection. Merely glancing at the deck with the custom categories you have developed, you only list 6 cards in total. You'd likely be lucky to get 1 in any given game.

You'd probably want closer to 10 - 15 to really ensure you get one out ASAP. Protecting her will be your highest priority, so it is worth the space.

June 14, 2022 3:23 p.m.

Good feedback. You're right about that. I'm not sure yet if I want to add more protection though, because I don't want to optimize the deck too much. If Trelasarra get's killed once or twice I don't really mind that much. At the same time I haven't got that many reps in yet, so I'll pay attention to this when playing the deck again. Thanks, TypicalTimmy!

June 14, 2022 3:31 p.m. Edited.

Love the deck! How's prize pig working out? So many new options from the LOTR set I was interested to see that this one made the cut

July 6, 2023 6:05 p.m.

Thanks sean360. I haven’t been able to jam games yet since the LOTR release. I guess life is happening in my playgroup :).

Were there any other goodies from the LOTR set you had expected to see?

July 7, 2023 3:32 a.m.

Beebles There are a few that seem great, like The Gaffer and Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles. Gwaihir giving Trelly flying when we attack seems great, and its another token producer. I think we have enough separate life gain triggers that often hitting 3 shouldn't be an issue.

Treebeard, Gracious Host seems strong but expensive at 4cmc, Arwen, Mortal Queen combos nicely with Trelly as well.

July 7, 2023 9:58 a.m.

Thanks sean360. Those flew under my radar. I’ll consider adding them!

July 7, 2023 10:52 a.m.

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