Lathril, Blade of the Elves - Aggro Elves

This listing is for a custom magic the gathering Commander/EDH deck. This is a complete ready-to-play 100-card deck, and all of the cards are authentic English-version magic cards.

General Summary

Lathril, Blade of the Elves is a potent force for the Elves. This deck leverages the natural synergy of the elf tribe to create a formidable board presence, generate vast amounts of mana, and eventually overwhelm your opponents in value. A typical game plan involves deploying Elves to the battlefield rapidly, enhancing them with various tribal buffs. The deck thrives in the mid-game, where its natural cohesiveness and massive mana advantage start to outpace the opponents, setting up for powerful late-game moves.

What Makes Lathril Special

Lathril is a very powerful commander. Firstly, she gets to produce elves equal to the damage she does to opponents. This, combined with menace, means that she is very likely to have at least one target she can connect with. Combined with anthems or single target buffs like Immaculate Magistrate and you will have a whole new army popping up every turn. These elves can not only use the anthems that we already have set up for Lathril, but can be tapped to nuke all of our opponents for 10. It doesn't take very many activations of that to just win a game!

General Gameplan

The general game plan of Lathril can be broken down into three main phases: setup, snowball, and finish.

1. Setup: Early game is about laying down the groundwork. You'll want to ramp up your mana production and start deploying Elves to the battlefield. The goal during this phase is to establish a solid board presence while maintaining enough resources to react to your opponents' moves or avoid being blown out by a boardwipe. Remember that your commander will make you a ton of troops, so keep some back in hand so you're not out of the game to one spell.

2. Snowball: Once you have a decent number of Elves on the board, it's time to start snowballing. This involves dropping anthems to buff your Elves, interacting with your opponents threats to make sure they can't contest you, and making sure to draw cards and keep your hand full. As long as you have cards, you're not out of it! Lathril should hopefully be cooking up an army for you to prepare for the final phase.

3. Finish: If you can just win by swinging in with your buffed up army, you should! But oftentimes as games go on, people's blockers and defenses become too much. Hopefully you chunked your opponents enough in the mid-game that only a few Lathril activations will result in kills. An essential note: you can activate Lathril at any time, so hold up your 11 elves as blockers first, then once the opponent who goes before you is finishing their turn, activate Lathril. If you do it during your turn, you're practically begging to be smacked by the full force of the other three players.