Felothar by JustRob

Format: Commander

Commander: Felothar the Steadfast

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This Abzan deck is a dedicated toughness-matters combat engine led by Felothar the Steadfast. The strategy revolves around deploying inexpensive, high-toughness defenders during the early turns to build an impenetrable defense and generate substantial mana through creatures like Overgrown Battlement and Axebane Guardian. Once Felothar resolves, static toughness-to-damage conversion allows these cheap walls to strike as massive offensive threats, converting 0/4 and 2/10 bodies into lethal attackers. The deck leverages its low-power profile to break parity on asymmetric sweepers such as Slaughter the Strong and Expel the Interlopers, decimating opposing boards while preserving its own. Additionally, Felothar the Steadfast acts as a massive draw engine by sacrificing high-toughness, zero-power creatures to refill the hand without discard penalties. Evasion pieces like Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa and burst pumps like Tower Defense ensure combat damage pushes through to close the game across turns 5 to 7.

Decklist (109 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Monument
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Behind the Scenes
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Blight Pile
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Canopy Gargantuan
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Captain America's Shield
  • 1 Carven Caryatid
  • 1 Catapult Fodder // Catapult Captain
  • 1 Colfenor's Urn
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expel the Interlopers
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghalta the Immovable
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Indomitable Ancients
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaddi Offshoot
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
  • 1 Meekstone
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Radiant Grove
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rampart Architect
  • 1 Reunion of the House
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Tip the Scales
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Towering Titan
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Walking Bulwark
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wall of Reverence
  • 1 Wave of Reckoning
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery