Doran culi by user9210964

Format: Commander

Commander: Doran, Besieged by Time

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 22

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan combat deck built around Doran, Besieged by Time. It turns high-toughness, low-power creatures into formidable attackers by triggering Doran's ability, which grants +X/+X based on the difference between power and toughness whenever a creature attacks or blocks. The deck establishes early mana and utility creatures, deploys Doran by turn 4, and leverages cost reductions to flood the board with resilient bodies. High-synergy equipment like Slagwurm Armor and Duelist's Heritage turn the commander into a swift elimination threat against single targets. Asymmetric board sweepers like Wave of Reckoning, Dusk // Dawn, and Fell the Mighty break parity by wiping high-power opposing boards while leaving your high-toughness defenders untouched. However, the deck lacks nonland tutors, stack interaction, and repeatable card advantage, requiring multiple combat steps to close out the full table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 Accorder's Shield
  • 1 Ancient Adamantoise
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bark of Doran
  • 1 Black Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Blighted Blackthorn
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bosk Banneret
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chelonian Tackle
  • 1 Circle of Protection: Black
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dauntless Dismantler
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Duelist's Heritage
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Fire Navy Trebuchet
  • 1 Fisk Tower
  • 1 Floriferous Vinewall
  • 1 Foggy Bottom Swamp
  • 1 Foraging Wickermaw
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Frodo Baggins
  • 1 Ghalta the Immovable
  • 1 Gnarlbark Elm
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Gríma Wormtongue
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Hedron-Field Purists
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 1 Inner Sanctum
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kabira Vindicator
  • 1 Kyoshi Village
  • 1 Lashwhip Predator
  • 1 Long Goodbye
  • 1 Market Gnome
  • 1 Meltstrider's Resolve
  • 1 Misty Palms Oasis
  • 1 Moonlit Lamenter
  • 1 Morningtide's Light
  • 1 Orchard Warden
  • 1 Overgrown Zealot
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reaping Willow
  • 1 Resurrection
  • 1 Reverent Howl
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Scene of the Crime
  • 1 Screeching Soulbreaker
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Serra Redeemer
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shelter
  • 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
  • 1 Slagwurm Armor
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steel Wall
  • 1 Stone by Sunlight
  • 1 Stonehorn Dignitary
  • 1 Strategic Betrayal
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Tapestry Warden
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Kingpin of Crime
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Turtle-Duck
  • 1 Unbury
  • 1 Unmake
  • 1 Valorous Stance
  • 1 Vigorbloom Charm
  • 1 Village Bell-Ringer
  • 1 Wave of Reckoning
  • 1 Wild-Field Scarecrow
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm