Toughness Matters by user5014476

Format: Commander

Commander: Doran, Besieged by Time

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a "toughness matters" tribal-combat deck helmed by **Doran, Besieged by Time**. The primary game plan is to deploy creatures with high toughness (walls, treefolk, and turtles), use effects like **Assault Formation** or **Doran, the Siege Tower** to make them deal combat damage equal to their toughness, and then overrun opponents with massive, hard-to-kill creatures. The commander provides a cost reduction for creatures with toughness > power and a combat buff, while the 99 contains multiple redundant enablers. Secondary win conditions include **Betor, Kin to All**'s life-total halving, **Last March of the Ents** for a huge burst of creatures, and **Eerie Ultimatum** to rebuild from the graveyard. The deck is a slow, value-oriented midrange strategy that relies on inevitability through resilient, high-toughness bodies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Ancient Adamantoise
  • 1 Ancient Lumberknot
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bosk Banneret
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Colfenor, the Last Yew
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Eerie Ultimatum
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expel the Interlopers
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Fangorn, Tree Shepherd
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Indomitable Ancients
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Primal Rage
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reunion of the House
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sapling Nursery
  • 1 Sapling of Colfenor
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stoneskin
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Towering Titan
  • 1 Transdimensional Bovine
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Treefolk Harbinger
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery