Bigbutts by Stiggs

Format: Commander

Commander: Felothar the Steadfast

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

Felothar the Steadfast leads an Abzan toughness-matters deck that converts inexpensive, high-toughness defenders into massive combat threats. The game plan focuses on deploying durable creatures like Indomitable Ancients, Wall of Blossoms, and Tree of Perdition during the first three turns before casting Felothar on Turn 4. Felothar immediately allows defenders to attack and assign damage using their toughness, while also providing an activated sacrifice engine that draws massive cards with negligible discard. The deck breaks parity using asymmetric board wipes like Slaughter the Strong and Wave of Reckoning, alongside disruption like Meekstone that keeps opposing attackers tapped while 0-power defenders untap freely. Redundant enablers such as Doran, Besieged by Time and Assault Formation ensure the strategy functions without the commander. The deck reliably presents lethal combat pressure by Turn 5 and eliminates all opponents across two response cycles using finishers like Tower Defense and Akroma's Will.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abandoned Air Temple
• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Adept Watershaper
• 1 Akroma's Will
• 1 Ancient Ziggurat
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arbor Adherent
• 1 Arboreal Grazer
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assault Formation
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Axebane Guardian
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Bedrock Tortoise
• 1 Betor, Kin to All
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brave the Sands
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Captain America's Shield
• 1 Catapult Fodder // Catapult Captain
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crashing Drawbridge
• 1 Crystal Barricade
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deceptive Landscape
• 1 Despark
• 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Expel the Interlopers
• 1 Fecund Greenshell
• 1 Felothar the Steadfast
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 7 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Ghalta the Immovable
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Great Forest Druid
• 1 Guardian Project
• 1 Heliod's Intervention
• 1 Indomitable Ancients
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jaws of Defeat
• 1 Last March of the Ents
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
• 1 Meekstone
• 1 Nurturing Peatland
• 1 Ohran Frostfang
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Overgrown Battlement
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 6 Plains
• 1 Rampart Architect
• 1 Requisition Raid
• 1 Reunion of the House
• 1 Robe of Stars
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Seedborn Muse
• 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
• 1 Slaughter the Strong
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stoneskin
• 1 Sungrass Prairie
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sylvan Caryatid
• 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• 1 Tower Defense
• 1 Tree of Perdition
• 1 Tree of Redemption
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Voice of Victory
• 1 Walking Bulwark
• 1 Wall of Blossoms
• 1 Wall of Shards
• 1 Wave of Reckoning
• 1 Weathered Sentinels
• 1 Welcoming Vampire
• 1 Will of the Abzan
• 1 Woodland Cemetery