FT, FY Playtest by user9437569

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai Elf tribal and +1/+1 counters midrange deck commanded by Thranduil, the Elvenking. The strategy focuses on establishing early Elf mana dorks and utility creatures, distributing counters with engines like Arwen, Weaver of Hope and Corpsejack Menace, and leveraging the graveyard. Thranduil, the Elvenking acts as a potent ability aggregator, inheriting all activated abilities of Elf cards in the graveyard while filtering cards whenever legendary Elves enter. The deck closes games through overwhelming combat damage aided by trample enablers like Bramblewood Paragon and Ghalta the Unstoppable, direct life loss from Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and Lathril, Blade of the Elves, or extra combats via Genji Glove. While resilient against spot removal due to graveyard recursion and Asceticism, the list lacks hyper-fast mana and compact infinite combos, playing at an authentic casual midrange pace that reaches critical lethality around Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherborn Marauder
  • 1 Arwen, Weaver of Hope
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Ashes of the Fallen
  • 1 Bow of Nylea
  • 1 Bramblewood Paragon
  • 1 Call to Mind
  • 1 Calming Verse
  • 1 Cathedral Acolyte
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Copperhorn Scout
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen
  • 1 Edgar, Moonlit Sovereign
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elven Raft-Steerer
  • 1 Elvenking's Halls
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Genji Glove
  • 1 Ghalta the Unstoppable
  • 1 Hellish Rebuke
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Joyous Respite
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
  • 1 Leyline of Transformation
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Morcant's Eyes
  • 1 Morcant's Loyalist
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Natural End
  • 1 Necklace of Girion
  • 1 Prismatic Undercurrents
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Respite
  • 1 Rimefire Torque
  • 1 Rootwater Diver
  • 1 Sapseep Forest
  • 1 Scarblade's Malice
  • 1 Silvan Reveler
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of Inspiration
  • 1 Stifle
  • 1 Storrev, Devkarin Lich
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Taunting Elf
  • 1 Thranduil the Strategist
  • 1 Thranduil's Company
  • 1 Thranduil's Decree
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Trystan's Command
  • 1 Trystan, Callous Cultivator // Trystan, Penitent Culler
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Vorel of the Hull Clade
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Wilderland Scrounger
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wrecking Ball Arm