Are We Playing Yugioh? by zytel

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

This is a Sultai combo-Elves deck built around Thranduil, the Elvenking as a graveyard-activated-ability engine. The central plan is to stock the graveyard with key Elf pieces-Devoted Druid for its untap ability and high-output mana Elves like Marwyn, the Nurturer, Deathbloom Ritualist, or Circle of Dreams Druid-then cast Thranduil and borrow those abilities to produce enormous mana. That mana feeds Staff of Domination or Walking Ballista for a deterministic kill, while Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation provides a compact, commander-independent backup. The deck packs an unusually dense tutor package (Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Worldly Tutor, Mystical Tutor, Buried Alive, Finale of Devastation) and a strong counter/protection suite to force the combo through. It can also pivot to combat via Finale of Devastation, Ezuri, Renegade Leader, or Tyvar, the Pummeler if the combo is disrupted.

Decklist (292 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 3 Allosaurus Shepherd
  • 3 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 3 Arcane Signet
  • 3 Ashes of the Fallen
  • 3 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 3 Beast Whisperer
  • 3 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 3 Bloom Tender
  • 3 Breeding Pool
  • 3 Buried Alive
  • 3 Cabal Ritual
  • 3 Chord of Calling
  • 3 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 3 City of Brass
  • 3 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 3 Culling the Weak
  • 3 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 3 Dark Ritual
  • 3 Deadly Rollick
  • 3 Deathbloom Ritualist
  • 3 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 3 Demonic Consultation
  • 3 Demonic Tutor
  • 3 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 3 Elven Passage
  • 3 Elvish Archdruid
  • 3 Elvish Mystic
  • 3 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 3 Entomb
  • 3 Evolution Witness
  • 3 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 3 Fauna Shaman
  • 3 Fierce Guardianship
  • 3 Finale of Devastation
  • 3 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 12 Forest
  • 3 Formidable Speaker
  • 3 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 3 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 3 Hedge Maze
  • 3 Heroic Intervention
  • 3 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 3 Incubation Druid
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 3 Llanowar Elves
  • 3 Lotus Petal
  • 3 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 3 Misty Rainforest
  • 3 Mystic Remora
  • 3 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 3 Overgrown Tomb
  • 3 Pact of Negation
  • 3 Path of Ancestry
  • 3 Polluted Delta
  • 3 Priest of Titania
  • 3 Reanimate
  • 3 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 3 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 3 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 3 Staff of Domination
  • 10 Swamp
  • 3 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 3 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 3 Talisman of Dominance
  • 3 Talisman of Resilience
  • 3 Thassa's Oracle
  • 3 The One Ring
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 3 Thrasios, Triton Hero
  • 3 Three Tree City
  • 1 Timberwatch Elf
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 3 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 3 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 3 Underground Mortuary
  • 3 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 3 Vampiric Tutor
  • 3 Veil of Summer
  • 3 Verdant Catacombs
  • 3 Walking Ballista
  • 3 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 3 Wirewood Lodge
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 3 Woodland Cemetery
  • 3 Worldly Tutor