.. by imdenni

Format: Commander

Commander: Felothar the Steadfast

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan toughness-matters combat engine commanded by Felothar the Steadfast. It leverages cheap, high-toughness defenders and walls to establish an impenetrable early defense before converting that defense into overwhelming offensive power. By assigning combat damage based on toughness and ignoring defender attack restrictions, low-cost creatures like Wall of Omens, Wall of Blossoms, and Indomitable Ancients attack as massive threats. The commander also serves as a potent card-draw engine, sacrificing low-power walls to draw immense hand advantage. Evasive enablers such as Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa and global stat amplifiers like Baldin, Century Herdmaster and Tower Defense push decisive damage through opposing boards. The deck supports this game plan with low-CMC removal, one-sided power-based sweepers like Dusk // Dawn and Fell the Mighty, and mass recursion tools like Reunion of the House that rebuild wiped boards instantly. Overall, the deck delivers consistent midgame combat pressure with exceptional card replenishment and resilience.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Charm
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Blight Pile
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Canopy Gargantuan
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Captain America's Shield
  • 1 Carven Caryatid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Ensnaring Bridge
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghalta the Immovable
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Indomitable Ancients
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Radiant Grove
  • 1 Rampart Architect
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reunion of the House
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selesnya Signet
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
  • 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
  • 1 Smile at Death
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Tip the Scales
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Towering Titan
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wakestone Gargoyle
  • 1 Walking Bulwark
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Limbs
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wall of Reverence
  • 1 Wall of Roots
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wingmantle Chaplain
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn