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Format: Commander

Commander: Doran, Besieged by Time

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a toughness-matters midrange strategy helmed by Doran, Besieged by Time. It leverages multiple enablers like Assault Formation, Bedrock Tortoise, and Felothar the Steadfast to let high-toughness creatures deal combat damage equal to their toughness. The deck ramps heavily with mana dorks and land-search spells, draws cards through creature-based engines, and recurs creatures from the graveyard. Primary win conditions are overwhelming combat damage, often amplified by Unnatural Growth or Betor, Kin to All's life-halving end-step trigger. The deck is resilient to board wipes due to its dense recursion suite and protection spells, but it lacks fast combo lines and relies on incremental value to close out games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Assemble the Players
  • 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Biophagus
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Colfenor, the Last Yew
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dinosaur Egg
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Expel the Interlopers
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Gluntch, the Bestower
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hakoda, Selfless Commander
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hushwood Verge
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Indomitable Ancients
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kain, Traitorous Dragoon
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Leinore, Autumn Sovereign
  • 1 Luminate Primordial
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Oft-Nabbed Goat
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overgrown Zealot
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Rampart Architect
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reunion of the House
  • 1 Runic Armasaur
  • 1 Sapling Nursery
  • 1 Sapling of Colfenor
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selvala, Explorer Returned
  • 1 Sinister Gnarlbark
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Slumbering Walker
  • 1 Smile at Death
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spry and Mighty
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Treefolk Harbinger
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn