The King by user5840183

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Sultai Elf-tribal deck built around Thranduil, the Elvenking as a graveyard-powered activated-ability engine. The core plan is to flood the board with Elf mana producers and token generators while putting key Elves into the graveyard-via Buried Alive, discard from Thranduil's draw trigger, or natural deaths-so that Thranduil can use their tap abilities from the graveyard. That turns him into a mana dork, a creature tutor, an overrun, and even a life-drain outlet all at once. The deck wins primarily by assembling a critical mass of Elves and ending the game with a high-X Finale of Devastation, an Ezuri, Renegade Leader overrun, or a large Exsanguinate. A secondary engine pairs High Perfect Morcant with Flourishing Defenses to clear opposing boards while generating more Elf tokens. The deck can operate without its commander, but his presence multiplies both card flow and mana generation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abomination of Llanowar
  • 1 All-Fates Scroll
  • 1 Alloy Myr
  • 1 Alpha Authority
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arwen, Weaver of Hope
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blossoming Defense
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Brawn
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Círdan the Shipwright
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
  • 1 Elven Ambush
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flourishing Defenses
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Galadhrim Ambush
  • 1 Germination Practicum
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Perfect Morcant
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
  • 1 Magic Damper
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Nature's Spiral
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revive
  • 1 Rhys the Exiled
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Road of Return
  • 1 Selfless Safewright
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sultai Banner
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Thranduil the Strategist
  • 1 Thranduil's Company
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tyvar the Bellicose
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome