How to cause more mischief?
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Posted on Aug. 28, 2020, 3:45 p.m. by JarringTiger
Hello friends,
Another new deck that needs some eyes coming at ya. I've been dying to make a faerie tribal deck for a while now, and even though I had most of the big pieces, I just wasn't inspired by Oona as commander. Somehow, Alela, Artful Provocateur had slipped my mind. Maybe I read her card once and just glazed over it, but I realized that Alela was the best for pure faerie value, so I put together this enchantress build:
The goal of the deck is to spam enchantments, get a billion faerie tokens, then slap some equipment or auras on Alela and rumble in. I want to really embody the spirit of the fae, so I want the deck to be annoying, but not oppressive or stax-y. Just slow people down enough for the faerie formation to block out the sun. But, I don't know every enchantment ever, obviously. Have I missed any good ones? Did I overlook some obvious synergies? Does the deck look terrible/miserable to play against? Let me know.
Thanks for your help.
Hey, looks like a cool deck.
You've hit most of the enchantments I can think of already but I would for sure fit Darksteel Mutation in and I'm always a sucker for Necropotence.
On the theme of fae trickery you could run Puppeteer Clique which is great value and kinda graveyard hate because it exiles at end of turn. There's also Faerie Artisans that can be really tricky to play against because you will end up getting the ETB first.
Paying some respect to the classic combination of ninjas and faeries you could also consider Fallen Shinobi which with all the evasive creatures you get will have no trouble getting in and if you get to return say a spellstutter sprite then it's just filthy.
August 30, 2020 6:51 a.m.
JarringTiger says... #4
Necropotence triple black scares me a bit, but I am trying to fit in another card draw source that doesn't break the bank. I'm trying to get my friend into the game and we opened a mystery booster box together and I picked out a few ones to keep and gave the rest to him. Really regretting saying "well, everyone should have a rhystic study" now!
I do want one of the cliques, I just don't know what to cut. I'm sure I'm way too committed to flavor and that both puppeteer and Vendilion Clique are probably better than Rankle, but Rankle's mentioned on Alela's card! Can't take him out lol. Interesting ninja idea.
August 31, 2020 6:51 p.m.
I think necro is generally worth the mana requirement (if it's worth the $ is a different matter) but you already got skullclamp, remora, arena, and a enchantress so maybe you already got the draw sorted. Even if study and remora is more stax than draw in my mind because people should not be giving you cards if they can help it.
Rankle is really good, the edict option when you have a steady supply of 1/1 tokens is amazing, I also find myself using the discard quite often but that's much more situational. Probably the last card I would cut.
Making cuts is always the hardest. Frogify, Revel in Riches, and Hushbringer looks kinda medium to me. If you are able to crank out a lot of tokens Propaganda might not be needed. But I get you want to keep critical mass of enchantments too.
September 1, 2020 4:53 a.m.
JarringTiger says... #7
keijser I keep going back and forth on how heavy I want to commit to the theme, and frogify and hushbringer are pretty much only in for flavor purposes (there are plenty of situations where hushbringer could hurt me, it's just a card I already have so it's one less thing to buy :p). Revel is mostly there because I could easily see games where I can't get a ton going and will need a way to end the game lol.
But I think propaganda and hushbringer are probably first in line, and Rest in Peace might be a little oppressive for what I want to be doing.
MagicMarc says... #2
I saw this post and could not help but notice you say "faerie formation" here in your post. So i would like to suggest this card for your deck: Faerie Formation.
It's not in line with spamming enchantments but does let you spam fairies.
August 28, 2020 5:37 p.m.