City of Troy by GlennM598

Format: Commander

Commander: Doran, Besieged by Time

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Abzan deck is a high-synergy combat and attrition strategy helmed by Doran, Besieged by Time. The primary game plan converts high-toughness defenders into formidable offensive threats. Doran reduces the casting cost of creatures with toughness greater than their power and provides a massive +X/+X boost whenever creatures attack or block. Supporting pieces like Felothar the Steadfast and Assault Formation allow defenders to attack freely and deal combat damage using their toughness. To control the pace of the game, the deck employs an asymmetric forced-combat package. Cards like Maddening Imp, Norritt, and Gideon Jura compel opponents to attack into lethal walls such as Wall of Nets and Wall of Glare, while Caltrops and Lightmine Field punish wide boards. Defensively, premier phase and hexproof spells like Teferi's Protection, Clever Concealment, and Asceticism safeguard key pieces. The deck reliably closes games on Turn 8 through overwhelming combat damage, skulk evasion, and life-halving triggers from Betor, Kin to All.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Finality
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Blight Pile
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Caltrops
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Catapult Fodder // Catapult Captain
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Colossus of Akros
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Court of Bounty
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Eldrazi Monument
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Gideon Jura
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Imps' Taunt
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Leyline of the Void
  • 1 Lightmine Field
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
  • 1 Maddening Imp
  • 1 Marchesa's Decree
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nettling Imp
  • 1 Norritt
  • 1 Odric, Lunarch Marshal
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Mana
  • 1 Overgrown Arch
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Protector of the Crown
  • 1 Ready // Willing
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Souls of the Faultless
  • 1 Spidersilk Armor
  • 1 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Towering Viewpoint
  • 1 Traproot Kami
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vedalken Orrery
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wall of Bone
  • 1 Wall of Essence
  • 1 Wall of Glare
  • 1 Wall of Nets
  • 1 Wall of Shadows
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth