Abzan Armor - Felothar by fjuanma

Format: Commander

Commander: Felothar the Steadfast

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Felothar the Steadfast leads a toughness-matters/defender deck that turns the format's most defensive creatures into an attacking army. The commander's first ability makes every 0/4 wall and 0/13 tree assign combat damage equal to its toughness, while the activated ability lets a high-toughness sacrifice become a massive draw. The core plan is to build a board of defenders, then use a toughness-damage enabler (Doran, the Siege Tower, Assault Formation, Bedrock Tortoise, Baldin, Century Herdmaster) to swing for huge chunks. Backup wins come from Blight Pile and Catapult Captain draining life, the Tree of Perdition/Tree of Redemption life-exchange, and a mass-recursion suite (Nethroi, Apex of Death, Reunion of the House, Luminous Broodmoth, Colfenor, the Last Yew) that rebuilds after wipes. It is a slow, grindy, inevitability deck that wins through attrition and recursion rather than speed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Angelic Chorus
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Behind the Scenes
  • 1 Blight Pile
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Carven Caryatid
  • 1 Catapult Fodder // Catapult Captain
  • 1 Colfenor, the Last Yew
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expel the Interlopers
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 1 Flumph
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Indomitable Ancients
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Meekstone
  • 1 Nethroi, Apex of Death
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perimeter Captain
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Radiant Grove
  • 1 Rampart Architect
  • 1 Reunion of the House
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sapling of Colfenor
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Towering Titan
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Unhallowed Phalanx
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery