Rivendell B4/5 by SNEEKATTAX

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 72

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Sultai Elf combo and control strategy commanded by Thranduil, the Elvenking. It leverages explosive fast mana and mana dorks to deploy Thranduil ahead of curve while using single-card graveyard enablers like Buried Alive, Intuition, and Entomb to bin key Elves. Because Thranduil gains all activated abilities of Elves in the graveyard, combining Devoted Druid, Priest of Titania, and Ezuri, Renegade Leader generates infinite green mana, infinite power, and trample to eliminate the table on turn 4. The deck protects its combo using format-defining free countermagic (Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, Pact of Negation) and uncounterable effects (Allosaurus Shepherd, Veil of Summer). If Thranduil is unavailable, the deck pivots seamlessly into independent infinite mana combos such as Basalt Monolith with Rings of Brighthearth or Umbral Mantle with Priest of Titania, sinking mana into Thrasios, Triton Hero or Finale of Devastation to close out the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flourishing Defenses
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Intuition
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Thrasios, Triton Hero
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Trickbind
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Umbral Mantle
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will
  • 1 Zameck Guildmage