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Elvenking’s Halls

Blue–Green (UG)

Extra land entries or faster Elf spells

DesignedDual land Elvenking's Halls52.9% game win · 4,269 games · -3.5 vs 56.5% average · Pick-Two Draft, Aug 11–29, 2026 · 17Lands ↗
Silvan RevelerSilvan RevelerSignpostElvenking's HallsElvenking's HallsDual land
Strategy
Mode

How it wins

Landfall rewards lands entering the battlefield, including lands found by spells. Your normal land each turn is the baseline; search lands and Wood Elves can add another entry. First make sure you can stay alive while arranging those turns.

AttercopQuarrelElven Raft-SteererThranduil's CompanyWood ElvesSilvan RevelerHobbit HoleElven Passage
Early
Deploy Attercop or another useful creature. Do not spend every early turn on cards that improve a future board but leave the present one empty.
Middle
Cast a landfall reward before the land you intend to trigger it with, when your mana allows. Add Wood Elves or a search land for another entry.
Finish
Turn land entries into counters or tapped blockers. Raft-Steerer can clear an attack; Company can build a large vigilant threat.

What it needs

You see a reason to build the package and the cards that make it work: land-entry support for landfall, or useful Elf spells for Weavemaster. A lone appealing green card is not the complete plan.

Four checks while you draft

  1. 1
    Early board and interaction

    Can you contest attacks before assembling landfall?

    Attercop can block flyers and threatens lethal deathtouch damage.

    AttercopQuarrel
  2. 2
    A useful landfall reward

    Which permanent benefits when a land enters?

    Extra lands need a reward beyond more available mana.

    Elven Raft-SteererThranduil's CompanyThranduil, Sindarin Liege
  3. 3
    Ways to add land entries

    Can you trigger a reward more than once in a turn?

    Searching a land onto the battlefield triggers landfall too.

    Wood ElvesHobbit HoleElven Passage
  4. 4
    Lands available to use

    Does Company have another Elf and another land to play?

    Extra-land permission does not put a land into your hand.

    Silvan RevelerThranduil's CompanyThranduil, Sindarin Liege

Choose the missing job before another reward that needs it.

What to take next

You have rewards but only normal land drops.

Take Wood Elves or a useful search land.

A second entry makes the existing reward do more.

Wood ElvesHobbit HoleElven Passage

Your early board is weak.

Repair defense before another slow enchantment.

Hospitality adds counters only when you have a creature to target.

AttercopQuarrelBeorn's Hospitality

The support is missing

Keep broadly useful creatures and interaction if the specialized support dries up. Do not fill the deck with weak Elves or slow enchantments merely to preserve the label.

Signals to watch
  • Land-entry effects arriving with useful landfall rewards are evidence for that package. An isolated payoff with no early defense is a reason to inspect support, not force the pair.
  • Weavemaster plus useful Elf spells can support the ramp branch. Do not count weak Elves as guaranteed playables merely because a creature-type label matches.

Repeated useful cards are clues, not proof that the colors are open.

Don’t
Hand is not battlefield

Thrór’s Map finds a basic into your hand. Its search alone triggers no landfall.

Reveler needs a land

Its entry ability puts the discarded card onto the battlefield only if you discard a land. Do not count it as automatic ramp.

Pick-Two: check both jobs

Two landfall payoffs do not supply the lands. Extra-land permission is also not a land in hand; count entries, available lands and the early defense separately.

Best commons & uncommons

Thranduil, Sindarin LiegeThranduil, Sindarin Liege61.3% GIH · 1,051 instancesBilbo, LuckwearerBilbo, Luckwearer59.9% GIH · 895 instancesMirkwood PathmakerMirkwood Pathmaker58.6% GIH · 942 instancesWood ElvesWood Elves57.7% GIH · 1,526 instancesAttercopAttercop57.7% GIH · 1,682 instancesMaster's CouncillorsMaster's Councillors56.8% GIH · 597 instances

17Lands ↗ · Aug 11–29, 2026 · at least 100 card-in-hand instances in this pair’s no-splash decks. Choose the job your deck needs first.

Bombs in these colors

Beorn the FierceBeorn the Fierce 3GGAt your combat, turns one creature into a Bear and can draw cards. Keep creatures coming; GG asks for a green base.Thranduil's CompanyThranduil's Company 2GULand drops grow your threats; another Elf unlocks extra lands. Plan for both G and U, plus creatures and land access.The ArkenstoneThe Arkenstone 52WColorless main spell boosts creatures and draws cards. Fits any mana base; only the optional Adventure needs white.

17Lands Pick-Two ↗ · Aug 11–29, 2026 · 100-instance minimum

Cards for this pair

By jobA card can fill more than one job.
Build-arounds
Beorn the Fierce

Keep early bodies; modestly upgrade Bears and protection.

Thranduil's Company

Raise fetch lands and land-entry creatures; keep early defense.

Dancing from Dark to Dawn

Raise land entries and creature spells; preserve early defense.

Lakeshore Apothecary

Take reliable second draws before stacking more unsupported payoffs.

Master's Councillors

Raise second-draw enablers; multiple Councillors can combine mill triggers.

GoldUncommons and rares in both colors
All 121 castable cards →Including hybrid and colorless cards

Worked turns

2 examples

Examples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.

Thranduil's Company + Hobbit Hole

  1. With Company already in play, play Hobbit Hole; put two counters on your chosen creature.
  2. Tap and sacrifice Hole to find a basic, which enters tapped and triggers Company again.
  3. Put the next two counters where useful, then attack if safe. Another Elf is needed only for Company’s additional land play.
Thranduil's CompanyThranduil's CompanyHobbit HoleHobbit Hole

Use two land entries to clear two blockers

  1. With Raft-Steerer already in play, play Hobbit Hole during your main phase. Its landfall trigger can tap an opposing creature you want out of the way.
  2. Tap and sacrifice Hole to find a basic land tapped. That land entry triggers Raft-Steerer again, letting you tap a different opposing creature before attacking.
  3. The basic enters tapped, so do not also budget it as fresh mana this turn. Tapping a creature after it has already been declared as a blocker would not remove it from combat.
Elven Raft-SteererElven Raft-SteererHobbit HoleHobbit Hole

Adapt the plan to your format

Pick-TwoOne-pickSealed
When a landfall reward is secured, pair a useful land-entry card with the blocker or interaction the deck lacks. Two rewards do not put extra lands into play or protect the turn spent setting them up.Pick the missing defense, land supply or useful Elf spell rather than every card bearing the theme. Extra-land permission has little value without another land to play.Count the pool’s actual land-entry support and useful Elves before choosing a branch. If the package is shallow, prioritize a normal creature curve and answers instead of slow enchantments and unsupported extra-land effects.

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