Elfs by Exim

Format: Commander

Commander: Galadriel, Light of Valinor

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Bant list is an Elf-tribal midrange engine built around Galadriel, Light of Valinor. Early turns deploy dorks such as Llanowar Elves, Bloom Tender, and Priest of Titania, then Galadriel turns every later creature into an Alliance payoff: three green mana to keep chaining, a +1/+1 counter on the team, or a scry-draw. The 99 backs that loop with counter doublers (Doubling Season, Branching Evolution, The Earth Crystal), Elf lords (Galadhrim Brigade, Wilt-Leaf Liege), and a singleton Simic Ascendancy as a non-combat win. There are no infinite combos; the deck closes by attacking with a pumped army or ticking Ascendancy to twenty growth counters. Galadriel is the primary value engine rather than a combo piece-she is easy to cast on turn four off the dork suite, and her own GGG mode helps recast her-but the list still functions as tribal midrange if she is answered. The ceiling clearly drops without the Alliance cycle.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arwen Undómiel
  • 1 Arwen, Mortal Queen
  • 1 Auroral Procession
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Celeborn the Wise
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copy Enchantment
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drizzt Do'Urden
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Elrond, Master of Healing
  • 1 Elvish Harbinger
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
  • 1 Galadhrim Brigade
  • 1 Galadriel, Gift-Giver
  • 1 Galadriel, Light of Valinor
  • 1 Graceful Takedown
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Legolas, Counter of Kills
  • 1 Legolas, Master Archer
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 1 Moon-Vigil Adherents
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Ordeal of Nylea
  • 1 Paradise Druid
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Ranger Class
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sentinel of Lost Lore
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strength of the Harvest // Haven of the Harvest
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 Throne of Eldraine
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Virtue of Strength // Garenbrig Growth
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Wildborn Preserver
  • 1 Wilt-Leaf Liege
  • 1 Yenna, Redtooth Regent