Elven Royalty by FaustsAccord

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Sultai Elf tribal deck helmed by Thranduil, the Elvenking, a 4-mana 5/6 that doubles as a card-advantage engine and a late-game mana engine. Thranduil gains every activated ability of Elf cards in the graveyard - so once dorks like Priest of Titania or Elvish Archdruid die, he taps for enormous mana - and draws two, discards one whenever another legendary Elf enters, which this deck triggers constantly with its deep legendary-Elf package (Lathril, Blade of the Elves, Ezuri, Renegade Leader, Marwyn, the Nurturer, Dionus, Elvish Archdruid, and more). The primary plan is a classic go-wide Elf ball: ~15 mana dorks accelerate into a wide board of lords and token producers, then Craterhoof Behemoth or Ezuri, Renegade Leader's overrun closes the game. Secondary wins include Lathril, Blade of the Elves's tap-ten-Elves life-loss ability (which Thranduil can copy from the graveyard) and a Galvanic Alchemist infinite-mana line.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Bident of Thassa
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bramblewood Paragon
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Champions of the Perfect
• 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
• 1 Coastal Piracy
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Court of Garenbrig
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Círdan the Shipwright
• 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Door of Destinies
• 1 Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen
• 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
• 1 Elvenking's Harper
• 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1 Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Elvish Harbinger
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Elvish Skysweeper
• 1 Elvish Warmaster
• 1 Emil, Vastlands Roamer
• 1 Essence Warden
• 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Evolution Witness
• 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 6 Forest
• 1 Formidable Speaker
• 1 Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Galadhrim Ambush
• 1 Galvanic Alchemist
• 1 Glissa Sunslayer
• 1 Gyre Sage
• 1 High Perfect Morcant
• 1 Imperious Perfect
• 1 In Garruk's Wake
• 1 Incubation Druid
• 4 Island
• 1 Joraga Warcaller
• 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
• 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Lys Alana Huntmaster
• 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
• 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1 Metallic Mimic
• 1 Miara, Thorn of the Glade
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Negate
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Paradise Druid
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Priest of Titania
• 1 Realmwalker
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Selfless Safewright
• 1 Sinister Sabotage
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sphere Grid
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Sylvan Offering
• 1 Tainted Wood
• 1 Thranduil the Strategist
• 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
• 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Tyvar Kell
• 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
• 1 Underground Mortuary
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Virulent Emissary
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wirewood Channeler
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth