Thrandaddy by Daredevil22

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Thranduil's graveyard-ability engine turns every Elf in the bin into a live tool. The deck's primary plan is to develop a fast board of Elf dorks, cast Thranduil early, then use Buried Alive or Entomb to stock the graveyard with Devoted Druid, Immaculate Magistrate, and Haldir. Once active, the loop produces arbitrarily large mana and +1/+1 counters, ending the game through Haldir's pump or Timberwatch's one-shot. Secondary paths are a conventional Elfball beatdown with Ezuri, Imperious Perfect, and Shaman of the Pack for life-loss. Thranduil is the heart of the deck, but the tribal shell remains functional even if it is offline.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Deepwood Denizen
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
  • 1 Elven Chorus
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Harbinger
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Visionary
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Glimpse of Nature
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Haldir, Lórien Lieutenant
  • 1 Heritage Druid
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
  • 1 Legolas, Master Archer
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necklace of Girion
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Paradise Druid
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Scryb Ranger
  • 1 Seeker of Skybreak
  • 1 Shaman of the Pack
  • 1 Silvan Reveler
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Thranduil's Company
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Timberwatch Elf
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wirewood Symbiote
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zagoth Triome