Mirkwood Legion - Thranduil by Nicktheye1997

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Thranduil, the Elvenking is the deck's central engine: one commander who turns every Elf in the graveyard into an activated-ability toolbox while the "another legendary Elf enters" trigger draws and discards, deliberately feeding that same graveyard. The primary plan is interactive elf-ball: accelerate with cheap Elf druids, stock the graveyard with Buried Alive/Entomb/Gifts Ungiven, then use Thranduil to activate Priest/Archdruid-scale mana abilities and win through Staff of Domination into Exsanguinate. Secondary paths are an overwhelming Elf board through Ezuri/Tyvar/Wonder and the Devoted Druid + Immaculate Magistrate counter loop, which makes Thranduil enormous. The Sindarin Liege adventure and other legendary Elves are support pieces, not a second commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abomination of Llanowar
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Champions of the Perfect
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Deathbloom Ritualist
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Elrond, Lord of Rivendell
  • 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elven Raft-Steerer
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Champion
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Galadhrim Ambush
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Perfect Morcant
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kagha, Shadow Archdruid
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Tribe
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Morcant's Loyalist
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhys the Exiled
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Selfless Safewright
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 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 Timberwatch Elf
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Tyvar the Bellicose
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg Elf
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wirewood Lodge
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast