Thranduil Budget | $150 usd by WiiU

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Sultai Elfball deck helmed by Thranduil, the Elvenking, built entirely around his unique graveyard-lords ability. The plan is to ramp aggressively with 20+ mana dorks, cast Thranduil, then fill the graveyard with high-impact Elves so he gains their activated abilities - turning the commander himself into a command-zone mana battery via Priest of Titania, Wirewood Channeler, and Heritage Druid. His second ability turns every legendary Elf cast into a two-card draw, fueling further flooding. The deck wins primarily through Craterhoof Behemoth overruns, massive Genesis Wave dumps, and Tyvar, the Pummeler's X pump, with infinite-mana loops (Thranduil + Quirion Ranger + a mana Elf) as the fastest path. It's a mid-power, engine-driven combo-aggro deck that rewards graveyard setup, tutor density, and commander protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Birchlore Rangers
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Canopy Tactician
  • 1 Champions of the Perfect
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dwynen's Elite
  • 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Visionary
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Golgari Guildmage
  • 1 Greenhilt Trainee
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Harald, King of Skemfar
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Heritage Druid
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Joraga Treespeaker
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Tribe
  • 1 Llanowar Visionary
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nullmage Shepherd
  • 1 Omni-Changeling
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Planar Genesis
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Prime Speaker Vannifar
  • 1 Primeval Herald
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Quirion Ranger
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rimewood Falls
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Scryb Ranger
  • 1 Selfless Safewright
  • 1 Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru
  • 1 Sylvan Ranger
  • 1 Tangled Islet
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Viridian Joiner
  • 1 Voice of Many
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Wirewood Channeler
  • 1 Wirewood Symbiote
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Woodland Chasm
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast