Gemini 2.0

Format: Commander

Commander: Lathril, Blade of the Elves

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a classic Golgari Elfball deck helmed by Lathril, Blade of the Elves, built to ramp hard with a dense suite of mana dorks, flood the board with Elf tokens, and close the game through overrun effects or a compact infinite-mana combo. The primary plan is to deploy Lathril early, attack to generate Elf Warrior tokens, then pump the wide board with lords like Elvish Archdruid, Elvish Champion, and Ezuri, Renegade Leader before finishing with Craterhoof Behemoth, Beastmaster Ascension, or Lathril's tap-ten-Elves drain. Secondary lines include Staff of Domination plus infinite green mana to draw the deck, and Presence of Gond on Wirewood Symbiote for infinite tokens. The deck is fast, redundant, and largely functions without its commander thanks to combo lines living entirely in the 99.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Binding the Old Gods
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Canopy Tactician
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Champions of the Perfect
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Collected Company
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dwynen's Elite
  • 1 Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen
  • 1 Elven Ambush
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Champion
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Visionary
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Joraga Warcaller
  • 1 Kagha, Shadow Archdruid
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Lifecrafter's Bestiary
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lys Alana Huntmaster
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Nettle Sentinel
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Presence of Gond
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Quirion Ranger
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Shantotto's Coercion
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Tyvar Kell
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wirewood Symbiote
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat