New Untitled Deck

Format: Commander

Commander: Lathril, Blade of the Elves

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 18

Deck overview

The deck develops a wide Elf board, uses Elf mana to accelerate its creature deployment, and turns that board into repeated life loss through Lathril, Blade of the Elves. Early mana creatures such as Llanowar Elves, Elvish Mystic, and Arbor Elf support a turn-4 or turn-5 Lathril, while Priest of Titania and Elvish Archdruid scale with the number of Elves in play. Harald, King of Skemfar, Eclipsed Elf, and Realmwalker improve access to tribal creatures and lands. In ordinary execution, ten untapped Elves and Lathril become operational around turn 7. The first activation is a strong must-answer clock, but it does not immediately win: four activations are needed to remove 40 life from each opponent. The deck has useful removal and some protection, but its board is vulnerable to sweepers and repeated spot removal. Its main weaknesses are slow recovery, limited tutoring for Lathril, and a lack of stack interaction or a compact combo finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abomination of Llanowar
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Champions of the Perfect
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Cultist of the Absolute
  • 1 Dawn-Blessed Pennant
  • 1 Demonic Embrace
  • 1 Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen
  • 1 Eclipsed Elf
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Elderfang Ritualist
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Dreadlord
  • 1 Elvish Guidance
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Visionary
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Eyeblight's Ending
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 14 Forest
  • 1 Full Steam Ahead
  • 1 Gala Greeters
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Gloom Ripper
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Golgari Findbroker
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Harald Unites the Elves
  • 1 Harald, King of Skemfar
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Miara, Thorn of the Glade
  • 1 Might of the Masses
  • 1 Moon-Vigil Adherents
  • 1 Morcant's Loyalist
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Overrun
  • 1 Pact of the Serpent
  • 1 Paradise Druid
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rope
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Selfless Safewright
  • 1 Shaman of the Pack
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Skemfar Avenger
  • 1 Skemfar Elderhall
  • 1 Skemfar Shadowsage
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Timberwatch Elf
  • 1 Trystan's Command
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Unbury
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Vorrac Battlehorns
  • 1 Windswift Slice
  • 1 Wirewood Channeler
  • 1 Wirewood Pride
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zephyr Boots