Thranduil, Master of the Greenwood by user4050781

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Sultai Elf toolbox deck helmed by Thranduil, the Elvenking. Thranduil copies every activated ability of Elves in your graveyard and loots whenever another legendary Elf enters, so the primary plan is to dump a curated pile of Elves into the yard and turn one body into a mana engine, a pump outlet, and a table-wide drain. Buried Alive, Entomb, Hermit Druid, and Mesmeric Orb feed that toolbox, while classic elfball producers - Priest of Titania, Elvish Archdruid, Marwyn, the Nurturer, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds - pair with Staff of Domination or Thousand-Year Elixir for commander-independent infinite mana. Combat finishes run through Ezuri, Renegade Leader and a lethal Finale of Devastation. Thranduil is a five-mana value engine, not a hard lock on the command zone: the 99 can still Staff-loop or overrun if he is answered, but the graveyard-as-ability-box plan is why he sits there.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Balin's Tomb
  • 1 Barrow-Downs
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kagha, Shadow Archdruid
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Minas Morgul
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Prime Speaker Vannifar
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Quirion Ranger
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Dead Marshes
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Thranduil's Company
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tyvar the Bellicose
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Viridian Joiner
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Wirewood Lodge
  • 1 Woodland Weavemaster
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome