Thranduil, Son of Oropher, Silvan King of the Great Mirkwood Halls by Paddynice

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Sultai Elf-combo build helmed by Thranduil, the Elvenking, who effectively turns your graveyard into a second command zone by granting the deck access to every activated ability of every Elf in the yard. The deck is built to do two things at once: flood the board with a dense, synergistic Elf-tribal package (mana dorks, lords, and token generators) while assembling a compact set of infinite-mana combos in the 99. The primary win paths are infinite mana via Devoted Druid + Freed from the Real or a big Marwyn, the Nurturer/Priest of Titania + Umbral Mantle, then converting that mana through Staff of Domination, Torment of Hailfire, or a giant Finale of Devastation. Thranduil's second ability turns every Elf entering the battlefield into card filtering, and he acts as a massive engine that recycles the graveyard full of druids the deck naturally fills via Buried Alive and Survival of the Fittest.

Decklist (101 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1 Balin's Tomb
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concordant Crossroads
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deathrite Shaman
• 1 Devoted Druid
• 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Dramatic Reversal
• 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
• 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
• 1 Elven Ambush
• 1 Elven Chorus
• 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1 Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Elvish Champion
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Elvish Warmaster
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 8 Forest
• 1 Freed from the Real
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Galadhrim Ambush
• 1 Golgari Charm
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 High Perfect Morcant
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Immaculate Magistrate
• 1 Imperious Perfect
• 1 Incubation Druid
• 4 Island
• 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
• 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
• 1 Legolas Greenleaf
• 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
• 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Palantír of Orthanc
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Priest of Titania
• 1 Raise the Palisade
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhys the Exiled
• 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Staff of Domination
• 1 Survival of the Fittest
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1 Thranduil the Strategist
• 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Time Warp
• 1 Torment of Hailfire
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
• 1 Umbral Mantle
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Underrealm Lich
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Vanquisher's Banner
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wirewood Lodge
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Zagoth Triome