Hero card

Thranduil, the Elvenking

Legendary Creature - Elf Noble

PayoffThe more of what it needs is on the battlefield, the stronger it gets: the deck has to feed it a lot

Needs: Graveyard, Elf

Gives: Graveyard, Mayhem, Card Draw

Not in winning lists yet: read from the card text and the graph

Build a deck with Thranduil, the Elvenking as the hero

Makes it work

Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist · Cantankerous Keepers · Dawnhand Eulogist · Maralen, Fae Ascendant · Trystan, Callous Cultivator · Gloom Ripper · Starving Revenant · Billowing Shriekmass

Benefits from it

Drag to the Roots · Cloud of Darkness · Squirming Emergence · Badlands Revival

Use instead if you don't have it

Wistfulness · Benthic Criminologists · Mistmeadow Council · Tenured Concocter · Tom, Bert, and William · Stirring Honormancer

Cards in the meta that answer it

Countersculpt (Azorius Control) · Get Lost (Azorius Control) · Inevitable Defeat (4-Color Control) · Bitter Triumph (Dimir Aggro)