Elfen & Ge(h)hilfen

Format: Commander

Commander: Dionus, Elvish Archdruid

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a mono-green Elf-Vehicle hybrid midrange deck helmed by Dionus, Elvish Archdruid. Dionus turns every Elf into a once-per-turn pseudo-vigilance engine that also grows: whenever an Elf taps on your turn it untaps and receives a +1/+1 counter. The list floods the board with cheap Elf dorks, converts that mana and those counters into oversized bodies and easy Vehicle crews, then closes through combat. Primary win paths are go-wide Elf overruns (especially via Ezuri, Renegade Leader), crewed flying Vehicles, and station payoffs such as Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought. Secondary value comes from +1/+1-counter draw engines and artifact recursion. The commander is a powerful force-multiplier but not a hard lock-piece; the 99 still functions as a classic Elfball/Vehicle beatdown deck if Dionus is answered.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Airship
  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Armorcraft Judge
  • 1 Arwen, Weaver of Hope
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Boreal Druid
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cache Grab
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Compost
  • 1 Cybership
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Defend the Rider
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Druid of Purification
  • 1 Druid of the Cowl
  • 1 Earthrumbler
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Extinguisher Battleship
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 26 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Galadhrim Ambush
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Heirloom Epic
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Lifecraft Engine
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
  • 1 Malevolent Rumble
  • 1 Manascape Refractor
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Mech Hangar
  • 1 Midnight Tilling
  • 1 Mighty Servant of Leuk-o
  • 1 Nautiloid Ship
  • 1 Necron Monolith
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Paradise Druid
  • 1 Pinnacle Kill-Ship
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Ranger's Guile
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Recon Craft Theta
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Seeker of Skybreak
  • 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
  • 1 Smuggler's Copter
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Stocking the Pantry
  • 1 Surgehacker Mech
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Symbiotic Deployment
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Taunting Elf
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Thunderhawk Gunship
  • 1 Thunderous Velocipede
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Weatherlight