Thranduil, Combo King by tacospartan

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Thranduil, the Elvenking is the centerpiece of a self-mill elf-ball. The deck fills the graveyard with functionally important Elves, then uses Thranduil to reuse their activated abilities-especially Immaculate Magistrate's +1/+1 counter burst-while legendary Elf enters trigger draw cards. Spare Elves become a wide board through landfall tokens. Wins come from a critical-mass pump with Tyvar, the Pummeler or Ezuri, Renegade Leader, from Jarad sacrificing a huge Abomination of Llanowar for mass life loss, or from Staff of Domination loops for infinite mana into Finale of Devastation. Thranduil the Strategist and Thranduil, Sindarin Liege add landfall token engines. The deck is resilient because several axes overlap: mana dork combos, massive overruns, and graveyard recursion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abomination of Llanowar
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arwen, Weaver of Hope
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Champion
  • 1 Elvish Harbinger
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Heritage Druid
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Perfect Morcant
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kagha, Shadow Archdruid
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morcant's Loyalist
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Quirion Ranger
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Storrev, Devkarin Lich
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tyvar the Bellicose
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wirewood Lodge
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome