Thranduil Combos by mordonextra

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Thranduil acts as a hybrid value engine and untap-ability hub for an elfball combo deck; there is no hidden commander. The primary plan is to accelerate with one- and two-mana Elf druids, then assemble an untap loop-Bloom Tender or Incubation Druid with Freed from the Real/Pemmin's Aura-to produce unbounded green/black/blue mana and finish with Exsanguinate or Torment of Hailfire. Backup lines use Staff of Domination or Umbral Mantle on Marwyn/Archdruid to draw or untap into the same finisher. If the combo stalls, Ezuri, Tyvar the Pummeler, Haldir, and Lathril turn the Elf horde into an overrun kill. Thranduil's graveyard ability lets him adopt dumped dork abilities, while legendary Elf ETBs draw and filter.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Eladamri, Lord of Leaves
  • 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
  • 1 Elven Chorus
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Gilt-Leaf Palace
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Haldir, Lórien Lieutenant
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Mentor
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Nullmage Shepherd
  • 1 Numa, Joraga Chieftain
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Quirion Ranger
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Selfless Safewright
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Timberwatch Elf
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Tyvar Kell
  • 1 Tyvar the Bellicose
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Umbral Mantle
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg Elf
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wirewood Channeler
  • 1 Wirewood Lodge
  • 1 Wirewood Symbiote
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zagoth Triome