Thranduil, the Elvenking by steveski43

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Sultai Elf-tribal graveyard-toolbox deck built around Thranduil, the Elvenking, who turns every Elf card in the graveyard into an activated ability he can personally use. That makes milling and self-mill spells into flexible tutors: bin Bloom Tender and he taps for three colors; bin Prime Speaker Vannifar and he becomes a repeatable creature-tutor; bin Fauna Shaman and he becomes a creature-searcher too. The deck accelerates with a dense one-drop dork package, loads the graveyard with Entomb / Buried Alive / Ripples of Undeath, and draws heavily off legendary-Elf enters - especially with Leyline of Singularity making every Elf legendary. The primary win line is infinite colored mana from Bloom Tender plus Minamo, School at Water's Edge, then a stacked Ezuri, Renegade Leader overrun or Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord drain. The fallback is a straightforward elfball combat kill backed by Coat of Arms and mass reanimation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abomination of Llanowar
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
  • 1 Elven Chorus
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Galadhrim Ambush
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Perfect Morcant
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Leyline of Singularity
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Morcant's Eyes
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necklace of Girion
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Prime Speaker Vannifar
  • 1 Prowess of the Fair
  • 1 Raise Repulsor Shields
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Thranduil the Strategist
  • 1 Thranduil's Company
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth