the Happening

Format: Commander

Commander: Doran, Besieged by Time

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Doran, Besieged by Time leads an Abzan Treefolk deck that turns high toughness into offensive power. Doran reduces the casting cost of high-toughness creatures and grants an attacking bonus equal to the difference between a creature's power and toughness. This converts defensive bodies into massive attackers. The deck deploys resilient Treefolk and changelings, ramps with mana creatures and lands, and reinforces the board with alternative toughness-damage effects like Ancient Lumberknot and Doran, the Siege Tower. Win conditions rely on overwhelming combat damage powered by Fangorn, Tree Shepherd, anthem boosts from Chronicle of Victory and Verdeloth the Ancient, and asymmetric board clearing with Winnowing.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ancient Lumberknot
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Belonging
• 1 Bitter Downfall
• 1 Blighted Blackthorn
• 1 Bloodline Bidding
• 1 Bogslither's Embrace
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bosk Banneret
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Celestial Reunion
• 1 Changeling Wayfinder
• 1 Chomping Changeling
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Chronicle of Victory
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contagion Clasp
• 1 Creosote Heath
• 1 Dawn-Blessed Pennant
• 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
• 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
• 1 Dormant Grove // Gnarled Grovestrider
• 1 Eventide's Shadow
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fangorn, Tree Shepherd
• 1 Ferrafor, Young Yew
• 1 Firdoch Core
• 3 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Generous Ent
• 1 Gnarlbark Elm
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Grave Venerations
• 1 Graveshifter
• 1 Great Forest Druid
• 1 Herbology Instructor // Malady Invoker
• 1 Jungle Hollow
• 1 Keep Out
• 1 Krosan Verge
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Midnight Tilling
• 1 Moment of Reckoning
• 1 Morningtide's Light
• 1 Nemata, Primeval Warden
• 1 Nesting Grounds
• 1 Old Man Willow
• 1 Old-Growth Educator
• 1 Orchard Warden
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Perfect Intimidation
• 1 Personify
• 3 Plains
• 1 Prideful Feastling
• 1 Prismatic Undercurrents
• 1 Protective Response
• 1 Quickbeam, Upstart Ent
• 1 Razorverge Thicket
• 1 Reaping Willow
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Render Inert
• 1 Ride the Shoopuf
• 1 Riverguard's Reflexes
• 1 Rooftop Percher
• 1 Rootless Yew
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Shimmercreep
• 1 Shimmerwilds Growth
• 1 Sinister Gnarlbark
• 1 Spelunking
• 1 Springleaf Drum
• 1 Springleaf Parade
• 1 Stalactite Dagger
• 1 Stew the Coneys
• 1 Sungrass Prairie
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Temple of Plenty
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Tend the Sprigs
• 1 Timberland Ancient
• 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Unbreakable Formation
• 1 Unnatural Restoration
• 1 Verdeloth the Ancient
• 1 Viridescent Bog
• 1 Wickerbough Elder
• 1 Winnowing
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yedora, Grave Gardener