Thranduil, the Elvenking by user1592266

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Thranduil, the Elvenking is the engine of a graveyard-elfball deck. His command-zone ability turns every Elf in the yard into an activated ability, so milled dorks become mana, Wirewood Symbiote becomes untaps, and Ezuri becomes pump and regeneration. The primary plan is to accelerate with one-mana Elves, fill the graveyard with Buried Alive, Ripples, Underrealm Lich, and value mills, then assemble an untap loop (Bloom Tender or Devoted Druid plus Freed from the Real) into infinite mana and close with Finale of Devastation, Ezuri, Jarad, or Lathril. Secondary wins are wide Elf combat with Elvish Warmaster and Lys Alana plus one-sided tribal wipes. There is no hidden commander; Trystan is value/mill support, with its back face only an incidental drain option.

Decklist (102 cards)

• 1 Arbor Elf
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arwen, Weaver of Hope
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Champions of the Perfect
• 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
• 1 Coiling Oracle
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Deathbloom Ritualist
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Devoted Druid
• 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Eclipsed Realms
• 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
• 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
• 1 Elven Chorus
• 1 Elven Passage
• 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1 Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Elvish Warmaster
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 1 Force of Will
• 7 Forest
• 1 Freed from the Real
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Gilt-Leaf Palace
• 1 Glissa Sunslayer
• 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Immaculate Magistrate
• 1 Incubation Druid
• 1 Island
• 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1 Kindred Dominance
• 1 Kindred Summons
• 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
• 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Lys Alana Huntmaster
• 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
• 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Nurturing Peatland
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Priest of Titania
• 1 Raise the Palisade
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 Ruthless Winnower
• 1 Selfless Safewright
• 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1 Skemfar Avenger
• 1 Sol Ring
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
• 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Timberwatch Elf
• 1 Trystan, Callous Cultivator // Trystan, Penitent Culler
• 1 Tyvar the Bellicose
• 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
• 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Underrealm Lich
• 1 Urborg Elf
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Wastewood Verge
• 1 Waterlogged Grove
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Willowrush Verge
• 1 Winter Eladrin
• 1 Wirewood Channeler
• 1 Wirewood Lodge
• 1 Wirewood Symbiote
• 1 Yavimaya Coast