My So-Called Cruel Grixis Fae Life

Ever since I saw the prerelease for Lorwyn I knew that I wanted to build a Faerie deck (there is just something sexy about the Fae)...However, once the cards came out, everyone and their mother began building Faerie decks. So my goal was to build a cool, powerful Faerie deck that was different from all others out there. Here is my latest build. It is a very controlling deck (especially against creature heavy opponents).

The deck is designed to lock down your opponent until you can overrun him/her with creatures or the awesome sorcery Cruel Ultimatum. A fun card that causes your opponent to sacrifice a creature, discard 3 cards, and lose 5 life while you return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw 3 cards, and gain 5 life. This awesome card tilts the game in your favor everytime it is played and typically will win the game for you.



The deck runs 12 creature cards (Sower of Temptation to steal your opponent's favorite creature, Scion of Oona to boost your Faerie creatures and give them shroud, and Spellstutter Sprite to counter spells) and the awesome token generating Bitterblossom.





The rest of the deck is designed to lockdown your opponents every move. The deck runs 8 counter spells (the versatile Cryptic Command and Broken Ambitions).



And 8 powerful burn spells to slow down your opponent's creatures (Firespout and Lightning Bolt). Typically each time I play the deck, Firespout is the card that pushes the game in my favor. It deals 3 damage to each creature without flying (totally demolishing most token and aggro decks) and gives me time to setup my lockdown. Both of these burn spells are Faerie's answers to Green's new Hero Great Sable Stag.



Also included in the deck are 2 awesome Shards of Alara cards (Grixis Charm and the sideboarded Swerve). Grixis Charm is a powerful game changing card (bounce a permament to its owners hand, kill a creature by giving it -4/-4, and overun your opponent by giving your creatures +2/+0). Swerve is a fun card that can totally surprises your opponent. Redirect one of their spells in your favor (ex. I once redirected my opponent's Oblivion Ring from targeting my Bitterblossom toward his powerful Planeswalker...he couldn't overcome this surprise).



Here is my final build:

Maindeck:
creatures:
4 Sower of Temptation
4 Scion of Oona
4 Spellsutter Sprite

spells:
3 Cruel Utlimatum
4 Bitterblossom
4 Cryptic Command
4 Broken Ambitions
3 Grixis Charm
3 Fire Spout
3 Lightning Bolt

Sideboard:
creatures:
3 Glen Elendra Archmage

spells:
3 Swerve
1 Firespout
2 Peppersmoke
3 Doomblade
3 Sleep

Hopefully this new build will inspire you to think outside of the box with your builds. Feel free to leave comments with your thoughts and ideas.