Tranduil the Hair Commercial by Jarules

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Thranduil, the Elvenking is a Sultai Elf-ball combo deck. Its primary plan is to put efficient Elf mana dorks into the graveyard, then use Thranduil's ability-stealing to turn him into a huge mana engine. Staff of Domination converts that mana into an infinite draw-and-untap loop; the kill finishes through Lathril's drain after Staff untaps ten Elves, or through an Ezuri/Elvish Champion trample/forestwalk combat step. The fallback is classic go-wide Elves with Elvish Archdruid, Elvish Warmaster, and Tyvar, the Pummeler. Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler and Thousand-Year Elixir act as secondary engines by letting tapped creatures use activated abilities despite summoning sickness. There is no hidden commander; the Trystan pair is a self-mill value piece, and the deck is built to maximize Thranduil's graveyard synergies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Balin's Tomb
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathbloom Ritualist
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Dol Amroth
  • 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Champion
  • 1 Elvish Harbinger
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fangorn Forest
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Galadhrim Ambush
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Out of the Tombs
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Riddles in the Dark
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Selfless Safewright
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 The Dead Marshes
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Trystan, Callous Cultivator // Trystan, Penitent Culler
  • 1 Tyvar Kell
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Windswift Slice
  • 1 Wirewood Lodge
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wooded Foothills