Elf and Bears by user8698947

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a midrange Sultai Elf value deck helmed by Thranduil, the Elvenking. The plan layers Elf tribal bodies, landfall engines, and +1/+1 counter growth into a combat finish, while the commander turns the graveyard into a toolbox of activated abilities and converts legendary Elf ETBs into loot. Supporting packages include multiple Vivien planeswalkers for creature access and flash, Class enchantments for incremental advantage, and a light wolf/ferocious subtheme. There are no infinite combo lines; wins come from overwhelming boards backed by trample enablers such as Aggressive Mammoth and token/landfall engines like Dancing from Dark to Dawn and Thranduil, Sindarin Liege. The deck plays a patient value game-ramp, fill the yard with Elves, recast Thranduil, the Elvenking, then grind opponents down in combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggressive Mammoth
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arlinn, Voice of the Pack
  • 1 Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and Tend
  • 1 Bilbo Baggins, Burglar // Take a Glance
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boughside Wanderers
  • 1 Burakos, Party Leader
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Combine Guildmage
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Dancing from Dark to Dawn
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Druid Class
  • 1 Duskwatch Hunter
  • 1 Elvenking's Halls
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Galion, Elvenking's Butler
  • 1 Galloping Lizrog
  • 1 Glass of the Guildpact
  • 1 Glowspore Shaman
  • 1 Goldvein Pick
  • 1 Grappling Kraken
  • 1 Gretchen Titchwillow
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Guardian of the Halls
  • 1 Gyre Engineer
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Incubation // Incongruity
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Jaheira's Respite
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Mirkwood
  • 1 Mirkwood Pathmaker
  • 1 Molderhulk
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Moss Diamond
  • 1 Neoform
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Paradise Druid
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plunder the Trollshaws
  • 1 Primal Command
  • 1 Ranger Class
  • 1 Ravening Warg
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Root Snare
  • 1 Sharktocrab
  • 1 Silvan Reveler
  • 1 Simic Locket
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 The Chief Warg
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thranduil's Company
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Verdant Force
  • 1 Vivien, Arkbow Ranger
  • 1 Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
  • 1 Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
  • 1 Wargling
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Woodland Weavemaster