king of elves by spicyonion

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Sultai elf deck is built around Thranduil, the Elvenking, who turns every Elf card in the graveyard into an extra activated ability on a 5/6 body. The plan is to deploy early elf mana, cast Thranduil on turn three or four, then aggressively fill the graveyard with Hermit Druid, Buried Alive, Entomb, Mesmeric Orb, and Ripples of Undeath. Once the yard is loaded, Thranduil can tap for huge mana through Priest of Titania-style effects and untap through Wirewood Symbiote/Quirion Ranger chains, setting up effectively infinite mana with Staff of Domination or Devoted Druid/Dionus, Elvish Archdruid. The primary finishes are an X 10 Finale of Devastation giving the whole elf team haste and +X/+X, an Ezuri, Renegade Leader overrun, or a Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord drain. The deck is a high-synergy combo engine whose commander is both the access point and the payoff.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
• 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Balin's Tomb
• 1 Barrow-Downs
• 1 Bayou
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Blooming Marsh
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Botanical Sanctum
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concordant Crossroads
• 1 Deathrite Shaman
• 1 Devoted Druid
• 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
• 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1 Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Elvish Reclaimer
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 1 Force of Vigor
• 4 Forest
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Green Sun's Zenith
• 1 Hermit Druid
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Immaculate Magistrate
• 1 Island
• 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1 Kagha, Shadow Archdruid
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1 Mesmeric Orb
• 1 Minas Morgul
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Necklace of Girion
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Priest of Titania
• 1 Prismatic Vista
• 1 Quirion Ranger
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 Seedborn Muse
• 1 Seeker of Skybreak
• 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1 Shifting Woodland
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Staff of Domination
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Sylvan Tutor
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 The Dead Marshes
• 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1 Thranduil's Company
• 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
• 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Tropical Island
• 1 Tyvar the Bellicose
• 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Underrealm Lich
• 1 Unmarked Grave
• 1 Veil of Summer
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Wastewood Verge
• 1 Willowrush Verge
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wirewood Lodge
• 1 Wirewood Symbiote
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Woodland Weavemaster
• 1 Yavimaya Coast
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Zagoth Triome