Fae Dominion Upgrade - Improving the Precon Commander Deck with $100

What do you think of Alela, Cunning Conqueror?
$300 Upgrade: • Fae Dominion Upgrade -...
Decklist: www.moxfield.com/decks/6gAl6e...
Follow us on instagram: / guysthatmagic
Follow us on twitter: / guysthatmagic
Follow us on tiktok: / guysthatmagic
In this video:
00:00 Intro
03:12 Additions
14:39 Removals
31:53 Outro

[@shyer6646]

Cloud of faeries goes infinite with a ton of things including dimir aqueduct. And Myriad Landscape seems good in this deck. Think about it, your goal is to tap out on your opponents turn. But if they don't give you good incentive to use your permission/removal, then you either have to try and force something or that mana goes to waste, so Myriad Landscape gives you backup so that you don't actually waste the turn, and instead you end up coming out ahead. Plus the curve seems low enough that it probably puts you ahead more often than it limits you.

[@deadbybears9563]

Just picked up this deck for the wife. Love your vids. Keep them up! I’ll be here watching every one!!!

[@GuysThatMagic]

Awesome! I hope she enjoys it! It’s definitely a fun deck and thank you for watching!

[@jayjayhooksch1]

I think Nettling Nuisance and Misleading signpost are good support if you want to build around Alela instead of Tegwyll. Alela has a goad mechanic, she wants your opponents to worry about the attack step while you worry about other things (like combos and interaction which you can defend at instant speed). I took this as a build around aspect, added some more Goad effects as well as Propaganda effects which work well with Bident of Thassa.

[@spupergames7771]

Nettling nuisance is hilarious in 1v1 tho. Almost destroyed it on the draw

[@liveanotheranime3526]

Costs slightly more mana but I like “Didn’t Say Please”, “Faerie Trickery”, and “Familiar’s Ruse” for counter spells for flavor reasons. Good additions and removals. Looking forward to getting my deck in the mail.

[@GuysThatMagic]

It’s a fun deck! Those are some great flavor additions.

[@rodzeroher]

There is a infinite combo in the deck as it is with Cloud of faeries, hullbreacher, quickling sol ring or a two mana land and Oona, Infinite mana and you deck your opponent

[@LukeFromNY]

Too many pieces tbh I took it out

[@jamessalisbury5419]

Super janky with that many cards

[@dariusmetz9791]

I really like grim hireling in this deck aswell it performed superb in every single game I got it out in so far

[@josephlck]

I would just like to say, technically, a seahorse is a fish. So wavebreak hippocamp is a seahorse horse.

[@GuysThatMagic]

🤔

[@MrEbilly20]

Damn right. I run Dimir aqueduct in my Oloro deck and it gets targeted more than half the time I play it. Lol. Good call.

[@Winterhe4rt]

perplexing test is an Instant btw. I think this might be a big oversight. or the least a bit of a misevaluation, as far as mass bounce goes, this is prolly the best after rift.

[@jacknelson8640]

YAY love me some faeries ! Love the flash play style 😁

[@GuysThatMagic]

It’s a lot of fun!

[@NaniTCG]

Missing out on a wincon if you take Cloud of Faeries out, also, Displacer Kitten would be a nice add - there are a lot of ETBs in this deck.

[@GuysThatMagic]

Not a bad option!

[@Chrs-hk1jk]

Just shower thoughts. You guys should start a patreon! What would be really cool is about 24 hours after an upgrade video you could make a post to make it easy to see what’s out and in in a list style. These 32 out… These 32 in… would make it more fun to watch than making sure to pause at each different screen. We could just enjoy the pace of the video and listen to your reasons and strategies then go over there and copy pasta into my Helvault to see what I have. Love the channel as always.

[@GuysThatMagic]

We are actually creating a patreon very soon! Stay tuned. Also thank you for watching!

[@ichias16]

Faerie Tauntings and Faerie Harbinger would work great with Alela, too ;)

[@TheGridMedia]

Really looking for a spicy 300 + upgrade vid.

[@PaulissVegan]

probably all the super staples like Mana crypt etc.

[@xoiyoub]

I'm cutting out "Perplexing Test" from this deck and adding it to "Buckle Up!" (the vehicle deck) 🙂

[@djkillermemestar1265]

I went in a complete different direction with this deck

[@donman7307]

Hey, looking into getting a fairy deck. Can you help me understand what kind of deck this could be? control? midrange? etc?

[@GuysThatMagic]

Using Alela, it is definitely more of a control deck.

[@edgarenho3723]

The 300$ upgrade video posted on the description is private :(

[@GuysThatMagic]

It wasn't out yet, but it is now!

[@nebula8851]

One major problem. Most removal/counterspells are 1 for 1 at best, and a deck built around 'heavy interaction', especially when the archetype doesn't have the necessary support as of yet in this type, might not work as intended.

[@GuysThatMagic]

The deck is a lot of fun! Try it out on moxfield if you haven’t already.

[@PixieLilacDreams]

I agree. What are your suggestions to add into the deck instead of more simple removals?

[@jayjayhooksch1]

​@@PixieLilacDreamseither more card advantage, more removal that synergizes with the deck or both. I really like Run Away together in this list, it's already in the stock list though. I really like Familiar's Ruse for similar reasons. Ertai Resurrected and Venser Shaper Savant work really well with your bounce effects and even Archmage of Echoes. If you want to get cute you can add Riptide Laboratory since there is actually a lot of wizards in the deck.

[@hiddenleaf414]

Tempo/control is a heavily supported archetype. There are a plethora of cards that draw you cards when you cast a spell on your opponents turn. On top of the blue enchantments that draw you cards whenever a creature deals combat damange. Yea there is more than plenty of support for this deck.

[@VJarnbjorn]

Feels like you could do much more with $100! E.g. Bitterblossom is good but it’s too expensive and could probably be replaced by 2-4 very good other cards!

[@GuysThatMagic]

Bitterblossom has a lot of synergy for it not to be added. Once the set is released it will be interesting to see what the price of the Enchanting Tales version of it will be.

[@Sinfamous81]

"I don't like 7 mana cards" includes Cyclonic Rift. Lol

[@jamessalisbury5419]

The same cyclonic rift that has use at 1U?

[@kaluszwig5854]

@@jamessalisbury5419literally nobody uses the non overloaded cost

[@jamessalisbury5419]

@@kaluszwig5854 YOU don't use the low cost. That's a you problem.

[@CountDravda]

I'd like to point out there are 4 potential commanders, not 2.

[@GuysThatMagic]

Technically there are 5 with Obyra, Oona, and Nymris but the two that are exclusive to the deck are just Tegwyll and Alela.

[@queenieevergreen]

I wish you made a video for Tegwyll… Alexa is horrible 1v1… Not everyone has a group to play with every time. 😢

[@Boyzinthehoof]

Faerie harbinger tho

[@GuysThatMagic]

That’s another really great faerie!

[@Winterhe4rt]

Myriad Landscape is so bad. Its insane its in the precons and people willingly put it in their decks. If you activate it you have like minus 6 mana or something on tempo, its just absurdly bad.

[@markos50100]

It taps for a colorless, so just the tap on play portion is bad. There are turns where you leave 3 mana up for counters but if no one does anything worth playing one, you can spin landscapes at the end step of the turn before yours to pull two lands you don't have to hard play. Timing is the most important use for it.

[@Winterhe4rt]

@@markos50100 Thats just wrong. Its not only bad cause it comes into play tapped. The moment you activate it you lose mana and tempo as well.

[@markos50100]

@Winterhe4rt you aren't activating it immediately. You activate it when you leave mana up to interact on an opponents turn, and they don't do anything worth playing a counter on. That's when you activate it. You still have a mana to tap it every turn. It's just colorless. And this also makes it so you don't hard draw two basic lands and hard play them on your turn.

[@Winterhe4rt]

@@markos50100 so you play a colorless tap land you probabyl never ever going to activate. got it.

[@Polemion]

I dont like that every deck gets the same removal/counter spell package. put more flavor into the deck. the 300$ upgrade will include rhystic studies, fierce guardienship, demonic tutor, vampiric tutor, and more staples xD

[@PaulissVegan]

they are called staples for a reason ;-)

[@GuysThatMagic]

This deck focuses on interaction on our opponents turns so we have optimized the deck with $100 with the best cards possible in our opinion.

[@simplyyunak3189]

Since i really like the lorwyn weird style artwork: peppersmoke will be in my deck :)

[@Station9.75]

No one’s forcing you to run staples…

[@MaiHead92]

I have about 10 games under me with Aleila as the commander, and I gotta say that she's way stronger than the face commander. I have tuned my deck somewhat in terms of interaction and land base, but it's all been way under 100 euros. Regardless, I can still pilot this deck vs aggressive Muldrotha decks, control decks, rakdos turbo etc. I've won 6 games out of the 10 which is a pretty decent winrate considering the relatively high power level at my locals. Wotc did an amazing job providing us great interaction pieces and synergy in the precon, along with great reprints and a janky infinite combo that some people have already figured out. I threw in Mana Vault to make getting infinite mana from Hullbreacher a lot easier. I feel so bad for the Selesnya deck. Its not good at all compared to Fae Dominion.

[@edwarddaignault5243]

I've heard people say the green/white deck is stronger, it gets confusing at times to know how good something really is. I just bought the faerie deck today, and plan on using Alela. Again, some people said Alela is weak, and the goad sucks lol.