Thranduil by user9683441

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This Sultai Commander deck adapts the classic Elfball strategy by using Thranduil, the Elvenking as a graveyard-fueled combo engine. In the early game, cheap mana dorks provide explosive mana velocity and fix your three colors. Mid-game turns leverage efficient graveyard tutors like Buried Alive, Entomb, and Survival of the Fittest to entomb key Elves with activated abilities. When Thranduil enters, he inherits all activated abilities of Elves in the graveyard. Combining Devoted Druid and Immaculate Magistrate creates an infinite loop of +1/+1 counters and untaps on Thranduil, generating infinite colored mana. The deck converts this advantage into an immediate same-turn win using Ezuri, Renegade Leader for an unblockable trample overrun, Exsanguinate for table-wide life loss, or Staff of Domination to draw into protection and combo pieces. Robust protection spells and alternate Elfball lines ensure high resilience against disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arwen, Weaver of Hope
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boreal Druid
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deathbloom Ritualist
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
  • 1 Elven Chorus
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Harbinger
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gilt-Leaf Palace
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Heritage Druid
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Quirion Elves
  • 1 Quirion Ranger
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 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 Three Visits
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Trystan's Command
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wirewood Channeler
  • 1 Wirewood Lodge
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Woodland Weavemaster
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth