thranduil, the elvenking by Arcan1s

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Sultai elfball deck that treats the graveyard as a second hand and Thranduil, the Elvenking as a living toolbox. The central plan is to self-mill or entomb key Elf cards, then cast Thranduil and use his ability to gain every activated ability of those Elves. That turns him into a massive mana dork, an overrun machine, a drain finisher, and an untap engine all in one. The primary wins are Ezuri, Renegade Leader overruns activated from the graveyard, Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord table-drain lines, and Staff of Domination mana/draw loops. The backup plan is a straightforward Elf beatdown with Elvish Archdruid, Imperious Perfect, and Allosaurus Shepherd. The deck's low 2.41 average mana value keeps the ramp and setup phases compact.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dawnhand Dissident
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathbloom Ritualist
  • 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 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Greenhilt Trainee
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Prime Speaker Vannifar
  • 1 Quirion Ranger
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhys the Exiled
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wirewood Channeler
  • 1 Wirewood Lodge
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome