Doran Treefolk by HerBkm

Format: Commander

Commander: Doran, the Siege Tower

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan toughness-matters midrange strategy led by Doran, the Siege Tower. The game plan revolves around turning cheap, high-toughness creatures into massive offensive threats by assigning combat damage with toughness instead of power. With cards like Indomitable Ancients, a four-mana 2/10 effectively attacks as a 10/10 creature. The deck backs up Doran with six redundant toughness-assigning effects, including Assault Formation, Huatli, the Sun's Heart, and Bedrock Tortoise. The mana base leverages green ramp spells to accelerate into heavy Treefolk threats while utilizing premier Abzan spot removal like Assassin's Trophy, Anguished Unmaking, and Swords to Plowshares to dismantle opposing engines. While the deck possesses immense battlefield presence and resilience against damage-based removal, its reliance on fair combat damage without infinite combos gives opponents standard response windows to answer wide boards with sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Beastmaster
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Ancient Adamantoise
  • 1 Ancient Lumberknot
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Black Poplar Shaman
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Blossoming Sands
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bosk Banneret
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Colfenor, the Last Yew
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dauntless Dourbark
  • 1 Deadwood Treefolk
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
  • 1 Dungrove Elder
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fangorn, Tree Shepherd
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heartwood Storyteller
  • 1 Huatli, the Sun's Heart
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Indomitable Ancients
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Krosan Verge
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Elder
  • 1 Magnigoth Treefolk
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Orchard Warden
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Quickbeam, Upstart Ent
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rootless Yew
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sapling of Colfenor
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Secluded Steppe
  • 1 Seedguide Ash
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Timber Protector
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Treefolk Harbinger
  • 1 Unstoppable Ash
  • 1 Verdeloth the Ancient
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wickerbough Elder
  • 1 Woodfall Primus
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery