elf daddy by user6596531

Format: Commander

Commander: Thranduil, the Elvenking

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

This Sultai elf-combo deck is built around Thranduil, the Elvenking as a graveyard-powered toolbox, but its fastest and most reliable win is a Hermit Druid + Thassa's Oracle line. Secondary wins come from infinite elf mana into Staff of Domination, then drawing the deck, or from Finale of Devastation and Ezuri/Jarad combat damage. Thranduil lets the deck borrow activated abilities from any Elf card in the graveyard, turning the commander into a variable mana source and threat, while the legendary-elf trigger supplies card advantage. The other Thranduil legends in the 99 are support pieces and token/mill engines, not a hidden commander. With 38 lands and a dense tutor suite, the deck can pivot quickly.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathbloom Ritualist
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glimpse of Nature
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Heritage Druid
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Perfect Morcant
  • 1 Iron-Shield Elf
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant
  • 1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Quirion Ranger
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Thranduil the Strategist
  • 1 Thranduil's Company
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Thranduil, the Elvenking
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Zagoth Triome