Thranduil - Newest by Aeledrae

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 57

Deck overview

This Sultai Commander deck blends traditional Elf tribal mana generation with a potent graveyard-activated combo engine led by Thranduil, the Elvenking. The deck rapidly develops mana using efficient dorks like Elvish Mystic and Priest of Titania, while deploying card advantage engines like Beast Whisperer and Guardian Project. Its primary game plan uses Buried Alive to entomb Devoted Druid, Immaculate Magistrate, and a payoff such as Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord directly into the graveyard. Once Thranduil, the Elvenking hits the battlefield, he inherits these activated abilities, creating infinite green mana and infinite +1/+1 counters to drain the table with Jarad or trample over with Ezuri, Renegade Leader and Finale of Devastation. Even if graveyard strategies are contested, the deck retains full independence as a resilient go-wide tribal beatdown strategy backed by countermagic and Heroic Intervention.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abomination of Llanowar
  • 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Champions of the Perfect
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathbloom Ritualist
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
  • 1 Elven Chorus
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Dreadlord
  • 1 Elvish Harbinger
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Emil, Vastlands Roamer
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Galadhrim Ambush
  • 1 Gilt-Leaf Palace
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Perfect Morcant
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Necklace of Girion
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Prime Speaker Vannifar
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Thranduil the Strategist
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Trystan's Command
  • 1 Tyvar the Bellicose
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Zagoth Triome