Doran, the f4-ck tower by Raychu231

Format: Commander

Creator: Raychu231

Commander: Doran, Besieged by Time

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan combat and combo strategy commanded by Doran, Besieged by Time. The primary plan leverages low-power, high-toughness creatures that benefit from the commander's cost-reduction ability and combat stat-scaling trigger. By turning high toughness into immense offensive power, cards like Tree of Redemption, Weathered Sentinels, and Dauntless Dourbark quickly become lethal threats. The deck supports this aggressive posture with redundant toughness-damage enablers such as Doran, the Siege Tower, Assault Formation, and Ancient Lumberknot. To ensure its beatdown succeeds, the list packs exceptional protection including Grand Abolisher, Silence, Ranger-Captain of Eos, and Heroic Intervention. In addition to combat, the deck carries a compact two-card infinite win condition in Witherbloom Apprentice plus Chain of Smog, providing a sudden bypass against stax or locked boards. With flexible removal, asymmetric sweepers like Slaughter the Strong, and robust recovery, the deck applies relentless pressure while maintaining strong table control.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Ancient Lumberknot
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bosk Banneret
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauntless Dourbark
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Huatli, the Sun's Heart
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nemata, Primeval Warden
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Sapling Nursery
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sinister Gnarlbark
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Reconfiguration
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Timber Protector
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Treefolk Harbinger
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Vizier of Remedies
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wrenn and Seven
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth