Alela, Artful Provocateur

Gameplan

Alela turns your noncreature spells into a growing flying army—every artifact or enchantment you cast spawns a 1/1 flying Faerie, and her anthem makes them all hit harder. You durdle out value pieces early, build a wide evasive board, then close with an anthem-fueled aerial swing or a token-payoff finisher. She's also a fine evasive blocker thanks to deathtouch and lifelink.

Key Cards

• Smothering Tithe — Artifact and enchantment that triggers Alela while flooding you with Treasure to fuel more spells.
• Esper Sentinel — Cheap artifact that triggers a Faerie and taxes opponents into drawing you cards.
• Shark Typhoon — Generates evasive bodies independent of Alela and pairs with her anthem.
• Sram, Senior Edificer — Card-draw engine off the equipment and auras that also trigger Faerie tokens.
• Coastal Piracy — Enchantment that triggers Alela and turns your evasive board into a card-draw machine.
• Cyclonic Rift — Premier blue reset that clears blockers for a lethal flying alpha strike.

Upgrade Path

Add more cheap, repeatable noncreature triggers (Esper Sentinel, Smothering Tithe, Sol Ring, fast mana) and token-anthem stackers like Intangible Virtue and additional flyer lords. Layer in protection for Alela (Swiftfoot Boots, Lightning Greaves, counterspells) and a compact win package such as an aristocrats drain loop or a Sword of Feast and Famine on a Faerie. Tighten the curve with efficient interaction—Swords to Plowshares, Counterspell, Cyclonic Rift—so you survive to the wide-board turn.