Copy of - Thranduil, The Strategist by user9346720

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil the Strategist

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Simic deck is a landfall-driven value build that uses Thranduil the Strategist as an accelerant rather than a combo piece. The commander turns other Elves into repeatable mana dorks and creates an Elf token on every landfall, while the 99 is packed with ramp and extra-land effects like Nature's Lore, Cultivate, Harrow, Exploration, Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait, and Thranduil's Company. Those land drops feed a large draw package - Tatyova, Benthic Druid, Nissa, Resurgent Animist, Traveling Chocobo, Kindred Discovery, and Horn of Greed - and a swarm of payoff creatures: Avenger of Zendikar, Rampaging Baloths, Scute Swarm, and Mossborn Hydra. The deck wins by overwhelming opponents with wide Plant/Elf/Beast token boards and giant tramplers, often finishing through Garruk's Uprising or Tyvar, the Pummeler. There are no infinite combos; the path to victory is incremental landfall supremacy.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elven Raft-Steerer
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Filter Out
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 16 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Horn of Greed
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Nissa, Vital Force
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Planar Engineering
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reshape the Earth
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Roil Elemental
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thranduil the Strategist
  • 1 Thranduil's Company
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Traveling Chocobo
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast