Thranduil by nicolaslessard1

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Thranduil, the Elvenking turns your graveyard into a toolbox: every Elf in the bin grants him activated abilities, making him a resilient mana engine, reanimation outlet, and finisher all in one. This deck's primary plan is to flood the board with Elf tokens and lords while self-milling to stock the graveyard. Secondary paths include reanimator beats via Victimize or Bloodline Bidding, and a compact combo of Devoted Druid plus Haldir and Immaculate Magistrate to produce arbitrarily large threats. Maralen, Fae Ascendant offers a pseudo-combo by exiling cards and casting them for free once you have enough Elves. The deck is commander-centric: Thranduil's ability to use abilities from the graveyard is unique, but the Elf-token subtheme and many lords still function without him to a moderate degree.

Decklist (104 cards)

  • 1 Abomination of Llanowar
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arwen, Weaver of Hope
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awaken the Honored Dead
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deathbloom Ritualist
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Down in the Valley
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
  • 1 Elven Chorus
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elven Raft-Steerer
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Promenade
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Ezuri, Claw of Progress
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
  • 1 Galadhrim Ambush
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Haldir, Lórien Lieutenant
  • 1 Harvest Season
  • 1 High Perfect Morcant
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kagha, Shadow Archdruid
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Summons
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lys Alana Huntmaster
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Prime Speaker Vannifar
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thranduil's Company
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Tyvar Kell
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wirewood Symbiote
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zameck Guildmage