LOTR Series: The Elves of Lothlórien

Modern* Aggro BG (Golgari) Collected Company Combo Competitive Elves

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Creature (38)

• 3x Dwynen's Elite
• 4x Elvish Archdruid
• 4x Elvish Mystic
• 4x Elvish Warmaster
• 2x Ezuri, Renegade Leader
• 4x Heritage Druid
• 4x Leaf-Crowned Visionary
• 4x Llanowar Elves
• 3x Nettle Sentinel
• 2x Realmwalker
• 4x Shaman of the Pack

Land (18)

• 4x Blooming Marsh
• 2x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 4x Cavern of Souls
• 4x Forest
• 1x Lair of the Hydra
• 2x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Pendelhaven

Instant (4)

• 4x Collected Company

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 2x Assassin's Trophy
• 2x Force of Vigor
• 2x Weather the Storm

Enchantment (6)

• 2x Choke
• 4x Leyline of Vitality

Creature (3)

• 3x Endurance

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Maybeboard

Creature (28)

• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 4x Elvish Champion
• 4x Elvish Clancaller
• 3x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Essence Warden
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 2x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 4x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 2x Scavenging Ooze
• 3x Yixlid Jailer

Land (7)

• 4x Gilt-Leaf Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Turntimber, Serpentine Wood  ^Flip
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Lead the Stampede
• 1x Necromentia
• 2x Thoughtseize
• 1x Winding Way

Artifact (2)

• 2x Damping Sphere

Instant (6)

• 2x Chord of Calling
• 1x Fracturing Gust
• 2x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Surgical Extraction

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Grist, the Hunger Tide
• 1x Vivien, Champion of the Wilds

Enchantment (6)

• 4x Leyline of the Void
• 2x Shapers' Sanctuary

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Few Elves are powerless, but together, they form an everlasting bond. The Elves of Lothlórien band together to destroy their opponents. They seek the help from the race of Men, Melira, Sylvok Outcast, to battle their most fierce some enemies. The powerful spells, Leyline of Vitality and Fecundity, granted from Gandalf, help the Elves triumph over weak foes. The Dark Lord's power stretches over Middle Earth, but the Elves have used this power to their advantage... with Stain the Mind. The great Ents of Fangorn Forest assist the Elves on their quest, Treebeard himself Chameleon Colossus leads in this rally. Lord Elrond Ezuri, Renegade Leader, chants to his fellow Elves, giving them courage and power. Haldir will have his revenge.

Welcome to the Deck:

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Main Deck Creatures:

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Dwynen's Elite: This Elf pairs perfectly with Heritage Druid, which allows us access to more mana.

Elvish Archdruid: This is the lord of the Elves. He also gives us access to even more mana, which we can use for anything.

Elvish Mystic: One drop mana dork.

Elvish Visionary: A solid two drop Elf that is a can-trip when we are searching for other important cards/elves.

Ezuri, Renegade Leader: This is another WinCon within the deck. Since we have access to a lot of mana, we can trample over damage and destroy opponent in one attack.

Heritage Druid: This is a core Elf of the deck. It allows us to create so much mana, in the early game. He has many combos with the other Elves.

Llanowar Elves: One drop mana dork.

Nettle Sentinel: This Elf combos very nicely with Heritage Druid. Eventually we will have enough Elves on board to empty our entire hand. This guy will keep untapping, providing another creature for us to tap with Heritage Druid's ability. He is also a strong body against certain decks, such as Zoo or Burn.

Reclamation Sage: A single-ton answer to enchant/artifact threats. Very easy to fetch up with a Chord of Calling.

Shaman of the Pack: One of the WinCons within the deck. This Elf can straight up burn people out of the match, without having to attack with the team in a board stall.

Main Deck Spells:

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Chord of Calling: This is the best tool in mono-green that allows us to search up certain creatures that we need. Usually you can fetch anything relatively easily because of our immense amount of mana. It also helps us search up our sideboard creatures.

Collected Company: This card is perfect to play in the Elf deck. It will always hit something. Usually it can find us combo pieces that we need to finish off the opponent. If you want to flood the board quick, here is the answer.

Main Deck Lands:

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Cavern of Souls: Since this is a tribal deck, the Cavern of Souls is the perfect land to increase our match ups against control decks.

Forest: Basic forests here, because we are playing mono-green with a splash of black. You always need basics for Path to Exile spells.

Gilt-Leaf Palace: This usually can come into play untapped, which is nice for preserving life totals, when we need access to black mana. It's also the Elf Land...why wouldn't you include this.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx: The Shrine is essentially another Elf within the deck that can provide us with immense amounts of mana.

Overgrown Tomb: Here is a green/black source that we can fetch up with Verdant Catacombs.

Verdant Catacombs: The fetchlands thin our deck and retrieve important sources of black mana. Thinning our deck is incredibly important, because top decking lands in the late game is horrible.

Side Board Choices:

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Chameleon Colossus: This is a changeling, so he is technically an Elf. Jund/Grixis decks will not be able to remove him. He is also great against Junk, but they do have Path to Exile.

Fecundity: This is an enchantment you want to have against decks playing heavy removal or board wipes. This will insure that you can empty your hand onto the board again. Bring this in against Living End, a poor match up for us.

Fracturing Gust: You will want to board this card in against Bogles, Prison decks, Affinity, and Lantern Control. Any deck that really relies on enchantments/artifacts, bring this in.

Leyline of Vitality: This is an incredibly powerful enchantment within the Elf deck. It is HIGHLY underrated, in my honest opinion. I bring this in against decks playing Electrolyze, which includes UWR control. Obviously, this comes in against Burn, which is a far superior choice compared to Essence Warden. Burn can easily target this Elf with a spell, in response to you casting your creature spells, yielding no life gain. However, no one is expecting this enchantment game 2, so I rarely ever see Destructive Revelry coming in, unless there is a game three. Also, being able to cast this for free is back breaking against Burn.

Melira, Sylvok Outcast: This deck has zero creature removal, which makes Infect one of our worst match ups. Our only hope is us racing them or getting a Spellskite/Melira into play. Technically once these are boarded in, you're running multiple copies of them. Chord of Calling is essentially a copy of these creatures.

Scavenging Ooze: Scavenging Ooze is the best answer in green against decks abusing their graveyard. Since we have such a large amount of green mana available, we can usually eat their entire graveyard. He is a magnet for removal though.

Spellskite: This comes in against Infect/Bogles and other various decks, but mainly Infect/Bogles.

Stain the Mind: Stain the Mind is our answer to combo decks, however we have no way of searching our library for this card. So we have to hope to draw into it or race the opponent.

Craterhoof Behemoth: I have not tested this creature. Some Elf players include it. I'm not sure about it, Ezuri covers this area. If Ezuri fails, then burn them out with the Shaman.

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Top Ranked	Achieved #17 position overall 8 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 3 Mythic Rares 32 - 8 Rares 15 - 2 Uncommons 7 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.12
Tokens	Elf Warrior 1/1 G
Folders	Mildly Entertaining, COOL WISH DECKS, Elves, Deck Inspiration