mtg lotr elf commander deck Lightly Upgrading Elven Council card deck (including 2 Foils Lord of the Rings Elven

Decklist: 1 Breeches, Brazen Plunderer

If you manage to transform it for a whopping 9 or 10 mana, you get an even better 11/11 with trample, indestructible, and damage with poison counters

And while I doubt that many are going to go in your deck, you could certainly run more than the standard four copies

If you tee it up with a card like Not Dead After All or Kayas Ghostform, Ancient Adamantoise will return to the battlefield before it can be exiled by its death trigger

The former one puts a three or fewer cost permanent into your hand but if you are the Monarch into play

And this middle-aged axe-swinging curmudgeon might just have the grit to do it