Elven King by TheAceWheelie
Format: Commander
Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking
Bracket: 4
Deck overview
This is a Sultai Elfball deck helmed by Thranduil, the Elvenking that layers classic go-wide tribal aggression with a graveyard-fueled activated-ability toolbox. The primary plan floods the board with efficient Elf dorks and lords, then converts that density into explosive mana via Priest of Titania, Elvish Archdruid, Marwyn, the Nurturer, and Canopy Tactician. Thranduil, the Elvenking turns every Elf in the graveyard into a shared activated-ability suite while filtering cards off legendary Elf ETBs. Win paths include infinite-mana loops with Staff of Domination, life-drain finishes through Lathril, Blade of the Elves or Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, overrun combat with Ezuri, Renegade Leader, and aristocrats drain via Poison-Tip Archer and Ayara, First of Locthwain. Dense self-mill and reanimation (Buried Alive, Entomb, Animate Dead, Victimize) keep the engine online and feed Thranduil's ability sponge.
Decklist (100 cards)
- 1 Ancient Tomb
- 1 Animate Dead
- 1 Arcane Signet
- 1 Assassin's Trophy
- 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
- 1 Beast Whisperer
- 1 Bitter Triumph
- 1 Bloom Tender
- 1 Bojuka Bog
- 1 Breeding Pool
- 1 Buried Alive
- 1 Canopy Tactician
- 1 Cavern of Souls
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Corpse Connoisseur
- 1 Cultivate
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Deathrite Shaman
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Devoted Druid
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen
- 1 Elvish Archdruid
- 1 Elvish Champion
- 1 Elvish Mystic
- 1 Elvish Warmaster
- 1 Entomb
- 1 Eternal Witness
- 1 Evolution Witness
- 1 Evolving Wilds
- 1 Exotic Orchard
- 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
- 1 Fabled Passage
- 7 Forest
- 1 Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
- 1 Fyndhorn Elves
- 1 Go for the Throat
- 1 Greater Good
- 1 Grim Flayer
- 1 Guardian Project
- 1 Heritage Druid
- 1 Hinterland Harbor
- 1 Immaculate Magistrate
- 1 Infernal Grasp
- 1 Island
- 1 Jarad's Orders
- 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
- 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
- 1 Llanowar Elves
- 1 Llanowar Wastes
- 1 Lys Alana Huntmaster
- 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
- 1 Miara, Thorn of the Glade
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Nath of the Gilt-Leaf
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- 1 Opulent Palace
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Paradise Druid
- 1 Path of Ancestry
- 1 Phyrexian Arena
- 1 Poison-Tip Archer
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Priest of Titania
- 1 Reanimate
- 1 Satyr Wayfinder
- 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
- 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
- 1 Skullclamp
- 1 Skyshroud Poacher
- 1 Snuff Out
- 1 Sol Ring
- 1 Staff of Domination
- 1 Stitcher's Supplier
- 1 Survival of the Fittest
- 4 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Terramorphic Expanse
- 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
- 1 Three Tree City
- 1 Timberwatch Elf
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Victimize
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Wirewood Symbiote
- 1 Woodland Cemetery
- 1 Yavimaya Coast