Elven Legacy - Tolarian Academie "Precon" by TheAceWheelie

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

This is a high-power Sultai Elf combo deck that treats Thranduil, the Elvenking as a graveyard-powered activated-ability hub. The core plan is to flood the board with cheap Elf dorks, stuff the yard with high-value Elves via Buried Alive, Entomb, and Gifts Ungiven, and let Thranduil inherit tap-for-mana, untap, pump, and overrun abilities. Parallel two-card infinites live entirely in the 99 - Umbral Mantle on any four-mana Elf, Freed from the Real on Bloom Tender, and Intruder Alarm with Heritage Druid plus Imperious Perfect - and dump into Torment of Hailfire, a lethal Finale of Devastation, or repeated Ezuri, Renegade Leader overruns. Thranduil also loots whenever another legendary Elf enters, but only four such Elves sit in the 99, so that trigger is a bonus rather than the plan. Fast mana, a dense black tutor suite, and a cEDH-grade counter package let the list race and protect the window. Recasting the five-mana commander hurts, yet the battlefield combos still function if he is answered.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boreal Druid
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glimpse of Nature
  • 1 Greenhilt Trainee
  • 1 Heritage Druid
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Imposter Mech
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Machine God's Effigy
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Quirion Ranger
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Timberwatch Elf
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Umbral Mantle
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wirewood Lodge
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor