Thranduil, the Elvenking - by Tyler Savesya Bucks by Fredrikie

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Sultai Elf tribal deck helmed by Thranduil, the Elvenking, built around a graveyard-matters engine. Thranduil gains all activated abilities of Elf cards in the graveyard, so the deck mills itself aggressively - via Consider, Frantic Search, Grisly Salvage, Diresight, Midnight Tilling, Scout the City, Malevolent Rumble, Kagha, Shadow Archdruid, Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist, Trystan, Callous Cultivator, and Morcant's Eyes - to stock the yard with Elves whose abilities Thranduil then borrows (Priest of Titania mana, Llanowar Mentor tokens, Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar draw, Izoni, Thousand-Eyed draw, Kagha play-from-graveyard). His second ability draws two, discards one for every other legendary Elf that enters, and the deck runs roughly sixteen legendary Elves to feed it. The primary win is a wide Elf swarm finished by Overrun, Overwhelming Stampede, or Trystan's Command, with Lathril, Blade of the Elves' ten-Elf drain as a secondary line.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aftermath Analyst
• 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
• 1 Auroral Procession
• 1 Awaken the Honored Dead
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Champions of the Perfect
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consider
• 1 Diresight
• 1 Distant Melody
• 1 Eclipsed Elf
• 1 Elrond, Lord of Rivendell
• 1 Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fact or Fiction
• 1 Festering Thicket
• 1 Fetid Pools
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 10 Forest
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Galadriel, Elven-Queen
• 1 Gathering Stone
• 1 Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
• 1 Glissa Sunslayer
• 1 Grisly Salvage
• 1 Growth Spiral
• 1 Haldir, Lórien Lieutenant
• 1 Harald Unites the Elves
• 1 Harald, King of Skemfar
• 1 Harmonized Crescendo
• 1 Hidden Grotto
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Imperious Perfect
• 1 Incubation Druid
• 1 Iron-Shield Elf
• 1 Island
• 1 Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
• 1 Kagha, Shadow Archdruid
• 1 Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory
• 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
• 1 Lethal Scheme
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Mentor
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
• 1 Maester Seymour
• 1 Malevolent Rumble
• 1 Midnight Tilling
• 1 Morcant's Eyes
• 1 Morcant's Loyalist
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Negate
• 1 Origin of Metalbending
• 1 Overrun
• 1 Overwhelming Stampede
• 1 Paradise Druid
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Priest of Titania
• 1 Prime Speaker Vannifar
• 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
• 1 Rhys the Exiled
• 1 Sail into the West
• 1 Scout the City
• 1 Selfless Safewright
• 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
• 1 Shire Terrace
• 1 Sodden Verdure
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Tear Asunder
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Temple of Mystery
• 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
• 1 Trystan's Command
• 1 Trystan, Callous Cultivator // Trystan, Penitent Culler
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Urborg Elf
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1 Viridescent Bog
• 1 Wild Growth
• 1 Wood Elves
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Woodland Weavemaster
• 1 Yavimaya Coast