The King - Thranduil by grindz

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This Sultai Commander deck transforms traditional Elfball into a lethal graveyard combo engine commanded by Thranduil, the Elvenking. Thranduil acts as a specialized Necrotic Ooze, inheriting all activated abilities of Elf creature cards in the graveyard. The primary strategy utilizes single-card graveyard tutors such as Buried Alive, Entomb, and Gifts Ungiven to deposit Devoted Druid, Immaculate Magistrate, and Imperious Perfect or Lathril, Blade of the Elves directly into the graveyard. Once deployed alongside another Elf, Thranduil pumps himself with Immaculate Magistrate and untaps with Devoted Druid to generate infinite power, toughness, and green mana. He then spawns infinite Elf tokens and activates Lathril to drain all three opponents for lethal damage on turn 4. Dense mana acceleration, robust countermagic, and protective spells like Heroic Intervention and Legolas's Quick Reflexes ensure the deck executes its combo decisively while defending against disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brawn
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Guidance
  • 1 Elvish Harbinger
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jarad's Orders
  • 1 Kagha, Shadow Archdruid
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Louisoix's Sacrifice
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Nullmage Shepherd
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Prime Speaker Vannifar
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riftsweeper
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Seeker of Skybreak
  • 1 Selfless Safewright
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Stifle
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Tyvar Kell
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viridian Joiner
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast