Defenders by Bombshell

Format: Commander

Commander: Felothar the Steadfast

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

Felothar the Steadfast commands an Abzan toughness-matters combat deck that turns low-cost, high-toughness defenders into massive offensive threats and potent card-draw engines. By deploying resilient walls on Turns 1 through 3, the deck erects an early defensive perimeter before casting Felothar on Turn 4 to unlock defender attacks and toughness-based combat damage. Felothar's activated ability sacrifices 0-power walls to draw substantial hands without discarding, maintaining card velocity into the midgame. The deck reaches critical onset on Turn 5 by pairing wide defender attacks with stat multipliers such as Tower Defense, Doran, Besieged by Time, and Akroma's Will. Asymmetric sweepers like Slaughter the Strong and persistent combat hate such as Meekstone suppress opposing boards while leaving 0-power defenders untouched. With dense redundancy across toughness enablers and robust protection spells, the deck reliably closes games across two combat cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Akroma's Will
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Assault Formation
• 1 Assemble the Players
• 1 Axebane Guardian
• 1 Bedrock Tortoise
• 1 Behind the Scenes
• 1 Betor, Kin to All
• 1 Blight Pile
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Bountiful Promenade
• 1 Brave the Sands
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Catapult Fodder // Catapult Captain
• 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crashing Drawbridge
• 1 Crawlspace
• 1 Crystal Barricade
• 1 Deceptive Landscape
• 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
• 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
• 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Ensnaring Bridge
• 1 Everybody Lives!
• 1 Expel the Interlopers
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fecund Greenshell
• 1 Felothar the Steadfast
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 5 Forest
• 1 Ghalta the Immovable
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Huatli, the Sun's Heart
• 1 Indatha Triome
• 1 Jaws of Defeat
• 1 Krosan Grip
• 1 Last March of the Ents
• 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Meekstone
• 1 Nethroi, Apex of Death
• 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1 Ohran Frostfang
• 1 Overgrown Battlement
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Overkill
• 1 Palantír of Orthanc
• 5 Plains
• 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
• 1 Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield
• 1 Rasaad yn Bashir
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
• 1 Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker
• 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
• 1 Slaughter the Strong
• 1 Souls of the Faultless
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sylvan Caryatid
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 The Kingpin of Crime
• 1 The Mind Stone
• 1 Tower Defense
• 1 Tree of Perdition
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Vesuva
• 1 Wall of Blossoms
• 1 Wall of Mulch
• 1 Wall of Omens
• 1 Wall of Roots
• 1 Warlock Class
• 1 Winds of Abandon
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth