Elf by user2490083

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Sultai Elfball deck built around turning Thranduil, the Elvenking into a recursive, graveyard-powered engine. The primary plan is to flood the battlefield with cheap Elf mana producers, cast Thranduil early, then use the graveyard as a second hand: every Buried Alive, self-mill effect, and discarded Elf expands the pool of activated abilities Thranduil can access. Mana bursts from Priest of Titania, Deathbloom Ritualist, and Devoted Druid are converted into a giant Haldir, Lorien Lieutenant or Tyvar, the Pummeler overrun, while Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord provides a life-total finish by flinging an enormous Abomination of Llanowar. Backup layers include Lathril, Blade of the Elves token generation and her ten-Elf life-loss activation, plus mass reanimation via Bloodline Bidding and Haunting Voyage.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abomination of Llanowar
• 1 Arbor Elf
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Beastcaller Savant
• 1 Birchlore Rangers
• 1 Bloodline Bidding
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Blooming Marsh
• 1 Botanical Sanctum
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Canopy Tactician
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Culling Ritual
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkslick Shores
• 1 Deathbloom Ritualist
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Deathrite Shaman
• 1 Devoted Druid
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Eclipsed Realms
• 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
• 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
• 1 Elven Chorus
• 1 Elven Passage
• 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1 Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Elvish Clancaller
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Elvish Warmaster
• 1 Emerald Medallion
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 1 Firdoch Core
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 6 Forest
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Gnarlroot Trapper
• 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
• 1 Haldir, Lórien Lieutenant
• 1 Haunting Voyage
• 1 High Perfect Morcant
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Imperious Perfect
• 6 Island
• 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Kindred Dominance
• 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
• 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
• 1 Legolas, Master Archer
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
• 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
• 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1 Morcant's Loyalist
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Paradise Druid
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Priest of Titania
• 1 Quirion Elves
• 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Thranduil's Company
• 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
• 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
• 1 Trystan's Command
• 1 Trystan, Callous Cultivator // Trystan, Penitent Culler
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Tyvar Kell
• 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
• 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
• 1 Underrealm Lich
• 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1 Wirewood Channeler
• 1 Wirewood Herald
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Woodland Weavemaster
• 1 Zameck Guildmage