[Archive] Thranduil by jeffhanrahan

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Sultai elfball-combo deck built to weaponize its own graveyard. Thranduil, the Elvenking gains every activated ability of Elf cards in the graveyard, turning him into a recursive toolbox that can tap for mana like Priest of Titania, regenerate like Ezuri, Renegade Leader, and grow like Marwyn, the Nurturer - while drawing two cards for every legendary Elf that enters. The true engine, however, is a fast mana-dork package (Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, Deathbloom Ritualist, Priest of Titania, Elvish Archdruid) combined with Staff of Domination to generate infinite mana and draw the entire library. Primary wins come from an overrun via Ezuri, Renegade Leader or Tyvar, the Pummeler, or a Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord fling with a graveyard-fed creature. Hermit Druid bins nearly the whole deck (only two basics), while Survival of the Fittest, Fauna Shaman, and premium tutors assemble the kill quickly.

Decklist (107 cards)

• 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Arbor Elf
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Badgermole Cub
• 1 Bayou
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Boreal Druid
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Chomping Changeling
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concordant Crossroads
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Dawnhand Dissident
• 1 Deathbloom Ritualist
• 1 Deathrite Shaman
• 1 Deepwood Denizen
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Devoted Druid
• 1 Dina's Guidance
• 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Eldritch Evolution
• 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
• 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1 Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Forest
• 1 Formidable Speaker
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Gaea's Cradle
• 1 Gifts Ungiven
• 1 Hermit Druid
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Immaculate Magistrate
• 1 Imperious Perfect
• 1 Incubation Druid
• 1 Intuition
• 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1 Lively Dirge
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Mana Vault
• 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Mox Diamond
• 1 Nature's Rhythm
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Pact of Negation
• 1 Paradise Druid
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Priest of Titania
• 1 Prime Speaker Vannifar
• 1 Quirion Ranger
• 1 Rhys the Exiled
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 Rivendell
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1 Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Staff of Domination
• 1 Survival of the Fittest
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Shire
• 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
• 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
• 1 Tropical Island
• 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
• 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
• 1 Umbral Mantle
• 1 Underground Sea
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Unmarked Grave
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wirewood Channeler
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Worldly Tutor
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth