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Thranduil, the Elvenking

Thranduil, the Elvenking

Legendary Creature — Elf Noble · {2}{B}{G}{U} · Black/Green/Blue commander

Thranduil has all activated abilities of all Elf cards in your graveyard. Whenever another legendary Elf you control enters, draw two cards, then discard a card.
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What Thranduil, the Elvenking actually does

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What a Thranduil, the Elvenking deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Thranduil, the Elvenking

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

A creature with an activated ability worth copying or borrowing

  1. Delighted Halfling1 mana
  2. Elvish Mystic1 mana
  3. Fyndhorn Elves1 mana
  4. Llanowar Elves1 mana
  5. Arbor Elf1 mana
  6. Deathrite Shaman1 mana
  7. Elves of Deep Shadow1 mana
  8. Gilded Goose1 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Elvish Mystic1 mana
  2. Fyndhorn Elves1 mana
  3. Llanowar Elves1 mana
  4. Arbor Elf1 mana
  5. Deathrite Shaman1 mana
  6. Elves of Deep Shadow1 mana
  7. Bloom Tender2 mana
  8. Allosaurus Shepherd1 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Aftermath Analyst2 mana
  4. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  5. Brain Freeze2 mana
  6. Mindcrank2 mana
  7. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  8. Codex Shredder1 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Reality Shift2 mana
  3. Pongify1 mana
  4. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  5. Resculpt2 mana
  6. Defile1 mana
  7. Tragic Slip1 mana
  8. Suspend1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Displacement Wave2 mana
  4. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Innocent Blood1 mana
  7. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  8. Forced March3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Lively Dirge2 mana
  6. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  7. Imperial Seal1 mana
  8. Insatiable Avarice1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Black Market Connections3 mana
  7. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  8. Garruk's Uprising3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  2. Gleaming Overseer3 mana
  3. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  4. Cryptothrall4 mana
  5. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  6. Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
  7. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  8. Lightning Greaves2 mana

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