Elf by Jerry2234

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil the Strategist

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Thranduil the Strategist leads an Elf-ball deck that turns small Elves into mana and tokens. The commander gives your other Elves "{T}: Add {G} or {U}" and creates a 1/1 Elf on each landfall, so every land ramps and grows the board. The main plan assembles infinite mana with Bloom Tender plus Pemmin's Aura or Freed from the Real, or with Elf mana doublers plus Staff of Domination or Umbral Mantle, then wins with Staff card draw, Finale of Devastation, or Craterhoof Behemoth. A second engine uses Kodama of the East Tree with bounce lands like Simic Growth Chamber and Guildless Commons plus Retreat to Coralhelm and Scute Swarm for infinite landfall tokens. Thranduil, Sindarin Liege acts as a hidden commander that doubles the anthem and token plan.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elven Raft-Steerer
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Guildless Commons
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Heritage Druid
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Scout
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Quirion Ranger
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Scout
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Thranduil the Strategist
  • 1 Thranduil's Company
  • 1 Thranduil's Decree
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Umbral Mantle
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Weavemaster
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth