Thranduil, the Elvenking
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
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.
Combos with Thranduil, the Elvenking
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Devoted Druid Immaculate Magistrate Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Infinite green mana
- Umbral Mantle Woodland Weavemaster Infinite
- Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to activate abilities of certain creatures
- Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast spells of a certain creature type
- Infinitely large creature until end of turn
- Devoted Druid Tromell, Seymour's Butler Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite green mana
- Infinite proliferate
- Devoted Druid Greenhilt Trainee Infinite
- Infinite green mana
- Infinitely large creatures you control until end of turn
- Devoted Druid Timberwatch Elf Infinite
- Infinite green mana
- Infinitely large creatures you control until end of turn
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2026-06-29
Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keyword abilities are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.
- 2026-06-29
If Thranduil, the Elvenking gains a set of linked activated abilities (for example, one ability that exiles a card and another that refers to the card "exiled with" the object), that link only lasts for as long as Thranduil has those abilities. If it loses the abilities and then regains them, the link is lost.
- 2026-06-29
If an activated ability of an Elf card in your graveyard references the card it's printed on by name, treat Thranduil, the Elvenking's instance of that ability as though it referenced Thranduil by name instead.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
As a commander
Decks built with Thranduil, the Elvenking in the command zone.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Thranduil, the Elvenking, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maralen, Fae Ascendant | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Sultai 1 deck
Thranduil, the Elvenking price history
The The Hobbit #167 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.36 | $0.52 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.36 | $0.52 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.39 | $0.52 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $0.43 | $0.56 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.55 | $0.61 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $0.58 | $0.61 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $0.59 | $0.60 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $0.53 | $0.64 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $0.51 | $0.64 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $0.46 | $0.63 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $0.49 | $0.64 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.47 | $0.61 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $0.46 | $0.63 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.41 | $0.63 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.51 | $0.67 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.54 | $0.77 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.49 | $0.82 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.48 | $0.84 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.49 | $0.85 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.50 | $0.83 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $0.48 | $0.83 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.49 | $0.79 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.55 | $0.78 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.63 | $0.74 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.64 | $0.74 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.51 | $0.74 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.51 | $0.73 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.49 | $0.69 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.57 | $0.71 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.57 | $0.91 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Thranduil, the Elvenking
3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
The Hobbit
- Normal
- $0.36
- Foil
- $0.52
Inverted
The Hobbit
- Normal
- $4.21
- Foil
- $7.18
Inverted
The Hobbit
- Foil
- $52.01
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Thranduil, the Elvenking. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
