Overshadowed Eldraine Commander Soars 475% Thanks to Lorwyn Faerie Synergy

Last updated on January 21, 2026

Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor | Illustration by Ekaterina Burmak

Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor has seen an immense 475% price spike this week, per MTGStocks. This price spike can be attributed to Lorwyn Eclipsed, which introduced a powerful new faerie commander, Maralen, Fae Ascendant along with additional faerie support like Bitterbloom Bearer and Voracious Tome-Skimmer.

Source: MTGStocks.com

Why Does Maralen Want Tegwyll?

Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor | Illustration by Ekaterina Burmak

The most obvious reason for Tegwyll’s price spike is Maralen, Fae Ascendant, a new hybrid typal commander that supports both faeries and elves. Maralen has quickly become the most built ECL commander, per EDHrec; an impressive achievement considering the popularity of High Perfect Morcant, an elf commander that was spoiled well before Maralen.

Maralen’s hype makes perfect sense. Players love typal commanders and theft effects, plus three or more color commanders are always favorites. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Maralen is how it enhances faeries: The archetype has always been locked to blue and black, and Maralen provides access to green, one of the strongest colors in casual Commander. While one could have played jank like two partners or Morophon, the Boundless for access to additional colors, that was never worth the downside of losing a synergistic value engine like Alela, Cunning Conquerer (currently the most popular faerie commander by a mile, with over 4,000 decks).

Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor fits into this new deck neatly as one of the strongest faerie support cards in Commander. It’s the third most popular faerie commander, with a respectable 1,000 decks, and a great text box. The lord anthem works well with faerie’s go-to strategy: Wide, with small, tempo-oriented creatures like Spellstutter Sprite and Faerie Mastermind that could use the power boost to end the game. But the second ability holds the real charm: Drawing cards when your faeries die.

This matters on two levels. Firstly, since faeries are in black, faerie decks can run sacrifice synergies. Though far from mandatory, sacrifice outlets like Deadly Dispute, Village Rites, and Attrition can work well with faeries—especially in decks that produce lots of faerie tokens with cards like Bitterblossom and Oona, Queen of the Fae. If you choose these cards, Tegwyll’s death trigger makes them even stronger, drawing cards as your faeries are sacrificed for greater rewards.

Perhaps more importantly, it serves as a form of board wipe…not quite protection, but insulation. Wrath of God hurts far less when you draw a card for each creature you lost, mitigating the card disadvantage from losing multiple of your cards to one of your opponents—though it doesn’t make up the mana disadvantage. Faeries are better suited to dealing with wraths than other types, such as goblins, because the ready access to blue lets them hold up counterspells, but another layer of protection rarely hurts.

While much responsibility for Tegwyll’s price spike goes to Maralen, Fae Ascendant’s hype as an ECL commander, it’s important to remember that Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor stands on its own as a powerful faerie payoff, and belong in nearly any version of the archetype that affords both colors.