Sultai Elves (TI 47)

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This Sultai Commander deck pairs classic Elf tribal acceleration with a graveyard combo engine piloted by Thranduil, the Elvenking. The primary strategy accelerates early mana using efficient Elf dorks, seeds the graveyard with key activated abilities via Buried Alive or targeted self-mill, and casts Thranduil on Turn 4. On Turn 5, Thranduil executes an infinite mana and power loop by combining the activated abilities of Devoted Druid and Greenhilt Trainee (or Immaculate Magistrate). The deck converts this loop into a same-turn victory through Ezuri, Renegade Leader trample damage, Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord life drain, or Exsanguinate. If Thranduil is disrupted, the deck pivots naturally into a traditional Elfball overrun strategy using Lathril, Blade of the Elves, Priest of Titania, and mass reanimation via Haunting Voyage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abomination of Llanowar
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Champions of the Perfect
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Deathbloom Ritualist
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Greenhilt Trainee
  • 1 Ground Seal
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Guardian of the Halls
  • 1 Hair-Strung Koto
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 High Perfect Morcant
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Immaculate Magistrate
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Iron-Shield Elf
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jarad's Orders
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Midnight Tilling
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Neoform
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Safewright Cavalry
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Selfless Safewright
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Thirst for Identity
  • 1 Thirst for Knowledge
  • 1 Thranduil's Company
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Timberwatch Elf
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg Elf
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Whetstone
  • 1 Wirewood Channeler
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Woodland Weavemaster
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast