DEFENDER - Felothar the Steadfast by DottorDOG

Format: Commander

Commander: Felothar the Steadfast

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a toughness-matters / defenders deck helmed by Felothar the Steadfast. The commander grants every creature toughness-based combat damage and lets defenders attack, while its activated ability sacrifices a creature to draw cards equal to its toughness (discarding equal to its power) - a powerful draw engine when fed 0-power walls. The deck deploys a swarm of high-toughness walls and toughness payoffs - Doran, the Siege Tower, Assault Formation, Huatli, the Sun's Heart, Bedrock Tortoise - to swing for large combat damage. Primary win conditions are combat damage from walls dealing toughness damage, Betor, Kin to All's end-step half-life drain once total toughness reaches 40, Jaws of Defeat's ETB drains, and Tree of Perdition life exchange. The deck is a slow, grindy midrange value engine with no fast combo, relying on the commander's card advantage and Seedborn Muse to outlast opponents.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Ancient Adamantoise
  • 1 Ancient Lumberknot
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Catapult Fodder // Catapult Captain
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Grizzled Leotau
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Indomitable Ancients
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
  • 1 Meekstone
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shield Sphere
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
  • 1 Steel Wall
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
  • 1 Wakestone Gargoyle
  • 1 Walking Bulwark
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wall of Tanglecord
  • 1 Wall of Vines
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Zero Point Ballad