Toughness 09/26 by PorkyUK

Format: Commander

Commander: Doran, Besieged by Time

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

Doran, Besieged by Time leads an Abzan combat and midrange deck built around high toughness and toughness-to-power mechanics. Rather than relying on traditional high-power beaters, the deck deploys undercosted, defensive creatures such as Indomitable Ancients and Nyx-Fleece Ram. Doran accelerates deployment with a cost-reduction static ability and turns high toughness into overwhelming offensive power by granting creatures +X/+X equal to the difference between their power and toughness whenever they attack or block. A suite of redundant toughness-assignment effects like Assault Formation and Felothar the Steadfast ensures the strategy functions seamlessly even without the commander. The deck leverages asymmetric sweepers like Fell the Mighty, draw engines keyed to toughness such as Betor, Kin to All, and potent combat finishers including Overwhelming Stampede and True Conviction. While vulnerable to exile-based board wipes and lacking stack-based countermagic, its dense protection spells and massive creature stats generate an imposing, durable clock.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fangorn, Tree Shepherd
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta the Immovable
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Huatli, the Sun's Heart
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Indomitable Ancients
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Momentous Fall
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nyx-Fleece Ram
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pia, Aether Ascetic
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Reaping Willow
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sapling Nursery
  • 1 Seedguide Ash
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sovereign Okinec Ahau
  • 1 Spry and Mighty
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Arkenstone // Seek the Heart
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Timber Protector
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traverse the Outlands
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Treefolk Harbinger
  • 1 Treefolk Seedlings
  • 1 True Conviction
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Unstoppable Ash
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yedora, Grave Gardener