Doran by Veronis

Format: Commander

Commander: Doran, Besieged by Time

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Abzan Treefolk "toughness matters" deck helmed by Doran, Besieged by Time, who discounts every creature with toughness greater than its power and pumps your attackers each combat. The core plan is to flood the board with high-toughness Treefolk, turn on toughness-based damage through a redundant suite of enablers (Doran, the Siege Tower, Tapestry Warden, The Kingpin of Crime, Felothar the Steadfast, Ancient Lumberknot, Bark of Doran), and close the game through either overwhelming combat or the life-total manipulation of Betor, Kin to All and Tree of Perdition. The deck is a midrange value engine with strong recursion (Colfenor, the Last Yew, Perennation, Zero Point Ballad) and a dense removal suite, but it lacks counterspells and fast combo lines, winning through incremental board advantage and inevitability rather than speed.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Akroma's Memorial
• 1 All-Fates Scroll
• 1 Ancient Adamantoise
• 1 Ancient Lumberknot
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bark of Doran
• 1 Betor, Kin to All
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bleachbone Verge
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Captain America's Shield
• 1 Cease // Desist
• 1 Celestial Reunion
• 1 Chelonian Tackle
• 1 Colfenor, the Last Yew
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crime // Punishment
• 1 Damnation
• 1 Deathsprout
• 1 Deceptive Landscape
• 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
• 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
• 1 Earth's Mightiest Heroes
• 1 Eclipsed Realms
• 1 Evolution Charm
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Expel the Interlopers
• 1 Fangorn, Tree Shepherd
• 1 Felothar the Steadfast
• 1 Festering Thicket
• 5 Forest
• 1 Formidable Speaker
• 1 Gaea's Blessing
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Gravkill
• 1 Great Forest Druid
• 1 Harmonize
• 1 Heartwood Storyteller
• 1 Hissing Quagmire
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
• 1 Lignify
• 1 Liliana Vess
• 1 Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Nature's Rhythm
• 1 Origin of Metalbending
• 1 Orzhov Basilica
• 1 Overkill
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Perennation
• 3 Plains
• 1 Plaza of Heroes
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Restoration Magic
• 1 Risky Shortcut
• 1 Rootgrapple
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Sapling Nursery
• 1 Sapling of Colfenor
• 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1 Sephiroth's Intervention
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Sinister Gnarlbark
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stroke of Midnight
• 1 Summoner's Pact
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tainted Treats
• 1 Tapestry Warden
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Kingpin of Crime
• 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• 1 Timber Protector
• 1 Tree of Perdition
• 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
• 1 Treefolk Harbinger
• 1 Ultimate Magic: Holy
• 1 Ulvenwald Observer
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Vesuva
• 1 Villainous Wrath
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 World War Hulk
• 1 Zero Point Ballad