First printed in The Hobbit (2026)
Legendary Creature — Elf Noble
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.
In a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stone sat the Elvenking on a chair of carven wood.
5/6
- Illustrated by
- Magali Villeneuve
Legality
- Legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Pauper, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders
Rulings (3)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.007 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hobbit (HOB), Premier Draft | 45.7% | -10.5 | -4.0 | 1023 |
- GIH WR
- win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
- vs set
- points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
- IWD
- improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
- Games
- games in which the card was seen
Combos
5 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, Infinite green mana: Devoted Druid + Immaculate Magistrate + Thranduil, the Elvenking
- Infinite green mana, Infinitely large creatures you control until end of turn: Devoted Druid + Thranduil, the Elvenking + Timberwatch Elf
- Infinite green mana, Infinitely large creatures you control until end of turn: Devoted Druid + Greenhilt Trainee + Thranduil, the Elvenking
- 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…: Thranduil, the Elvenking + Umbral Mantle + Woodland Weavemaster
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite green mana…: Devoted Druid + Thranduil, the Elvenking + Tromell, Seymour's Butler