Rishkar, Peema Renegade cares very strongly about counters, and mixing a huge army of small elves with counters to make them bigger can be a massive threat. Mana generation is probably the strongest suit Magic’s elves have, and +1/+1 counters have a ton of support in green. Sometimes it’s about weirdest or most fun concept. Kethis, the Hidden Hand would probably be at its strongest with a less tribal deck, but then again, EDH isn’t always about strongest.
There are about 75 legendary elves out there, and most of them are some kind of combination of green, white, and black. This could be a graveyard commanders list at this point. Since there’s so many black elves now, especially ones like Skemfar Avenger, building a sacrifice-heavy elf tribal deck can be a fun idea. Not unlike the previous entry, Savra, Queen of the Golgari is another Golgari commander that cares about your elves dying. Being able to bring creatures back from your graveyard in tribal decks can be great for cards like Door of Destinies, and there are also quite a few elves with ETB effects that add an extra benefit to this card’s ability. Graveyard recursion is a staple of the Golgari swarm, and Storrev, Devkarin Lich plays right into that. But elves have a bunch of ways to create tokens, and being able to prevent any damage that would be dealt to them can be amazing. Emmara TandrisĪrguably the most important elf in the Selesnya ( ) guild, Emmara Tandris focuses specifically on tokens and shines brighter in a token deck than it would in an elf tribal.
But even so, your commander can fundamentally change how your deck is built or works, so let’s take a look at some of the best elf commanders in Magic. This becomes impossible in a mono-green or Golgari EDH build, but you can always have places to dump your mana into and generate a win condition.Įlf commanders can be strong as individual cards, but the truth is that the other 99 is what’ll make your elf deck shine. There’s actually a fundamental elf strategy called elfball, which is basically using elves to generate absurd amounts of mana so that you can fling a Fireball at your opponent and win. One of the most prominent effects on elves is mana generation. This plays right into what I just mentioned about quantity, but it also grants you attackers and blockers without needing to risk some of your more effect-oriented creatures. This tribe has another advantage, and that’s that they have quite a few ways to make creature tokens. Commander allows you to take even greater advantage of this by having space for a ton of elves in your deck so that you can exploit all of the effects that care about having them. They tend to have a ton of synergies and “do X for each elf you control” effects. Not unlike goblins, elves shine their brightest when they’re working as a team. You’re gonna build it because they’ve had a ton of support and are one of the game’s strongest tribes.Īlmost 30 years of being one of the game’s staple creatures has allowed elves to be an absurdly powerful tribe. But of course you’re not just gonna build a deck around a creature type just because they’ve been around for a long time. They’ve been around since the start of the game and they’ll keep showing up in pretty much every set for as long as the game goes on.
Marwyn, the Nurturer | Illustration by Chris RahnĮlves are the quintessential green tribe.
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