Make Abzan Great Again by Thiqqmeister

Format: Commander

Commander: Felothar the Steadfast

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Abzan "toughness-matters" deck built around the commander Felothar the Steadfast. The primary game plan is to assemble a board of high-toughness defender creatures, then use Felothar's ability to let them ignore defender and attack with damage assigned by toughness. The commander also serves as a flexible draw engine, turning excess toughness into cards while discarding based on power. The deck is heavily synergized around the defender creature type, with multiple payoffs like Betor, Kin to All (drain/tempo triggers based on total toughness), Doran, the Siege Tower (universal toughness combat), and Unnatural Growth (doubling power and toughness each combat). Wins are achieved through combat damage, often accelerated by Betor's life-drain end step or Unnatural Growth doubling the already-large toughness values. The deck lacks fast combo lines and relies on incremental value, recursion via Colfenor's Urn and Reunion of the House, and a moderate density of removal and protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Ancient Adamantoise
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arbor Adherent
• 1 Arboreal Grazer
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Axebane Guardian
• 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Bedrock Tortoise
• 1 Behind the Scenes
• 1 Betor, Kin to All
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brave the Sands
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Carven Caryatid
• 1 Colfenor's Urn
• 1 Colfenor, the Last Yew
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crashing Drawbridge
• 1 Crystal Barricade
• 1 Deceptive Landscape
• 1 Despark
• 1 Destined Confrontation
• 1 Dina's Guidance
• 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
• 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
• 1 Eclipsed Steppe
• 1 Essence of Antiquity
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Expel the Interlopers
• 1 Fecund Greenshell
• 1 Felothar the Steadfast
• 1 Flumph
• 6 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
• 1 Indomitable Ancients
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jaddi Offshoot
• 1 Jaws of Defeat
• 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
• 1 Ohran Frostfang
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Overgrown Battlement
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Overkill
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 5 Plains
• 1 Radiant Grove
• 1 Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield
• 1 Rampart Architect
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Reunion of the House
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Seedborn Muse
• 1 Selesnya Signet
• 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
• 1 Slaughter the Strong
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
• 1 Sungrass Prairie
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sylvan Caryatid
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Temple of Plenty
• 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Tip the Scales
• 1 Tower Defense
• 1 Towering Titan
• 1 Tree of Perdition
• 1 Tree of Redemption
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Umbral Expanse
• 1 Unnatural Growth
• 1 Walking Bulwark
• 1 Wall of Blossoms
• 1 Wall of Omens
• 1 Weathered Sentinels
• 1 Wingmantle Chaplain
• 1 Woodland Cemetery