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Alela, Artful Provocateur

Legendary Creature — Faerie Warlock

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+0.
Whenever you cast an artifact or enchantment spell, create a 1/1 blue Faerie creature token with flying.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{W}{U}{B}
Color identity
BUW
Rarity
mythic
Set
The List
Price
$0.57
EDHREC rank
#4977
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Alela, Artful Provocateur card art
Alela, Artful Provocateur generates a 1/1 flying faerie every time you cast an artifact or enchantment, turning each Sensei's Divining Top activation or Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain trigger into a board presence with no extra mana spent. At three mana for a 3/2 flying deathtouch, the rate is real — you're not paying a premium for the token engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain

Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain

24.2% of decks · synergy 0.21

Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain creates a copy of each equipment that attaches to a creature, and Alela, Artful Provocateur is a native flying deathtouch body that wants those equipment triggers — each copied artifact doubles as another faerie off Alela's ability, snowballing the board faster than either card does alone.

02
Eriette, the Beguiler

Eriette, the Beguiler

18.7% of decks · synergy 0.16

Eriette, the Beguiler taxes opponents for each Aura you control and drains life to match, so Alela, Artful Provocateur's ability to produce faerie tokens every time you slam another enchantment keeps the creature count high enough to defend the Aura-laden board while Eriette bleeds the table out.

03

Soundwave, Sonic Spy

18.2% of decks · synergy 0.15

Soundwave, Sonic Spy cares about artifacts entering and leaving play, and Alela, Artful Provocateur converts each of those artifact casts into a 1/1 flier — the two commanders share enough overlap in artifact-heavy shells that Alela slots in as a free value engine rather than a flex pick.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Alela, Artful Provocateur earns her reputation: a three-mana commander who passively floods the board with flying tokens across a 99-card artifact-and-enchantment shell is exactly the kind of incremental engine that compounds over a long game. In Legacy and Vintage she's legal but irrelevant — those formats move too fast for a five-color-identity Esper creature whose engine requires setup. Modern and Pioneer offer the legal status but not the context; there's no shell that wants a slow token generator when cheaper, narrower payoffs exist. Oathbreaker gives her a second home, where a well-chosen signature spell can chain artifacts or enchantments on the spot and immediately trigger her ability, compressing the setup time that holds her back elsewhere.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.57 bulk tier

At $0.57, Alela, Artful Provocateur is bulk pricing for a commander who headlined a precon and still shows up in nearly ten thousand Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain lists alone — the supply is deep enough that the price should stay in this range for the foreseeable future. Pick up copies freely; there's no budget reason to hesitate.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.