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Maralen of the Mornsong
Legendary Creature — Elf Wizard · {1}{B}{B} · Black commander
What Maralen of the Mornsong actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · otherAt the beginning of each player's draw step, that player loses 3 life, searches their library for a card, puts it into their hand, then shuffles.
- Static ability · taxPlayers can't draw cards.
What a Maralen of the Mornsong deck needs
Plays as stax. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- stax pieces, taxes and hatebears that break parity in your favor
- combo pieces and silver bullets worth finding (it tutors on repeat)
The Maralen of the Mornsong deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 24× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Refill your hand
- 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Maralen of the Mornsong
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- Grafdigger's Cage1 mana
- Opposition Agent3 mana
- Cursed Totem2 mana
- Defense Grid2 mana
- Winter Moon2 mana
- Crawlspace3 mana
- Pithing Needle1 mana
- Petrified Hamlet0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
- Brotherhood Regalia2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Maralen of the Mornsong
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Maralen of the Mornsong is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Maralen of the Mornsong + Opposition Agent7,986 decks
- Maralen of the Mornsong + Stranglehold441 decks
- Maralen of the Mornsong + Mindlock Orb123 decks
- Maralen of the Mornsong + Nexus Of Fate + Clearwater Goblet3 decks
- Maralen of the Mornsong + Timestream Navigator + Temur Ascendancy1 decks
- Maralen of the Mornsong + Timestream Navigator + Akroma's Memorial1 decks
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