Felothar, Toughness Matters by forstyrre

Format: Commander

Commander: Felothar the Steadfast

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Abzan deck is a dedicated toughness-matters combat archetype commanded by Felothar the Steadfast. The strategy converts high-toughness, low-power defenders into massive offensive threats while leveraging Felothar's sacrifice ability to turn excess toughness into overwhelming card advantage. The deck breaks parity on asymmetric sweepers such as Slaughter the Strong and Dusk // Dawn, which purge opponents' boards while leaving your high-toughness walls untouched. Supported by scaling defender mana engines like Overgrown Battlement and Axebane Guardian, the deck deploys massive stat monsters including Indomitable Ancients, Tree of Perdition, and The Walls of Ba Sing Se. Evasion tools such as Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa and Behind the Scenes ensure that 0-power attackers bypass opposing blockers. While vulnerable to well-timed spot removal on its commander during combat and lacking stack-based interaction, the deck presents an explosive, resilient combat clock that grinds down pods across turns 6 through 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Akroma's Will
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arbor Adherent
• 1 Arboreal Grazer
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Assault Formation
• 1 Axebane Guardian
• 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
• 1 Beast Within
• 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 Canopy Gargantuan
• 1 Carven Caryatid
• 1 Colfenor's Urn
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crashing Drawbridge
• 1 Crystal Barricade
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Despark
• 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Expel the Interlopers
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fecund Greenshell
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Felothar the Steadfast
• 3 Forest
• 1 Ghalta the Immovable
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
• 1 Indatha Triome
• 1 Indomitable Ancients
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jaws of Defeat
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Ohran Frostfang
• 1 Overgrown Battlement
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Overkill
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 3 Plains
• 1 Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield
• 1 Rampart Architect
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Reunion of the House
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
• 1 Slaughter the Strong
• 1 Smile at Death
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
• 1 Stoneskin
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sylvan Caryatid
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• 1 Tip the Scales
• 1 Tower Defense
• 1 Towering Titan
• 1 Tree of Perdition
• 1 Tree of Redemption
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Wall of Blossoms
• 1 Wall of Omens
• 1 Wall of Roots
• 1 Weathered Sentinels
• 1 Welcoming Vampire
• 1 Will of the Abzan
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth