Thranduil, Elf King by SlimJim84

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Thranduil is a Sultai elfball commander whose real engine is the graveyard: he borrows every activated ability from Elf cards in the yard, letting one permanent generate mana, untap, and pump itself. The primary win is to cast Buried Alive for Devoted Druid, Immaculate Magistrate, and Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, then use Thranduil to loop green mana into a lethal Exsanguinate. Secondary paths are Natural Order into Ashaya for a huge land-creature beatdown, Gilt-Leaf Archdruid land theft with Leyline of Transformation, and Maralen's free-cast pressure. The commander is the keystone of the fastest lines, but the deck still has functional elf/value backup if he is unavailable.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arbor Elf
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Boreal Druid
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Champions of the Perfect
• 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Devoted Druid
• 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Elven Passage
• 1 Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Farseek
• 6 Forest
• 1 Formidable Speaker
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Gilt-Leaf Archdruid
• 1 Growth Spiral
• 1 Harmonize
• 1 Harrow
• 1 Hedge Maze
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Immaculate Magistrate
• 6 Island
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Leyline of Anticipation
• 1 Leyline of Transformation
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Machine God's Effigy
• 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
• 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
• 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1 Morcant's Loyalist
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Natural Order
• 1 Pact of Negation
• 1 Priest of Titania
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Quirion Ranger
• 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1 Sakashima the Impostor
• 1 Scryb Ranger
• 1 Selfless Safewright
• 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1 Shamanic Revelation
• 1 Sodden Verdure
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul of the Harvest
• 1 Spark Double
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Tainted Wood
• 1 Tajuru Preserver
• 1 Temur Sabertooth
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Thranduil's Company
• 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Through the Forest Gate
• 1 Underground Mortuary
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Wastewood Verge
• 1 Willowrush Verge
• 1 Wirewood Channeler
• 1 Wirewood Symbiote
• 1 Wood Elves
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Zagoth Triome