Defenders

Format: Commander

Commander: Felothar the Steadfast

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This Abzan deck transforms high-toughness, low-cost defenders into formidable offensive threats under the leadership of Felothar the Steadfast. The strategy revolves around playing early 0-power walls that double as mana ramp and card draw engines, then deploying Felothar or redundant enablers like Doran, the Siege Tower to assign combat damage equal to toughness. Because the creature suite consists of low-power creatures with massive defensive stats, the deck breaks parity on asymmetric sweepers such as Slaughter the Strong, Wave of Reckoning, and Dusk // Dawn, wiping away opposing boards while leaving its own attackers intact. Evasion pieces like Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa and Behind the Scenes ensure that 0-power behemoths like Indomitable Ancients and Tree of Perdition bypass blockers, while Tower Defense delivers explosive team-wide damage spikes. A robust package of targeted interaction, mass graveyard reanimation, and protection spells ensures smooth, resilient gameplay across mid-power multiplayer tables.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arbor Adherent
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assault Formation
• 1 Assemble the Players
• 1 Axebane Guardian
• 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
• 1 Baxter Building
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Bedrock Tortoise
• 1 Behind the Scenes
• 1 Betor, Kin to All
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crystal Barricade
• 1 Defense of the Heart
• 1 Dina's Guidance
• 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
• 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
• 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1 Drumbellower
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faeburrow Elder
• 1 Fecund Greenshell
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Felothar the Steadfast
• 8 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Fracture
• 1 Ghalta the Immovable
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Huatli, the Sun's Heart
• 1 Indomitable Ancients
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jaws of Defeat
• 1 Kabira Takedown // Kabira Plateau
• 1 Krosan Grip
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Meekstone
• 1 Murmuring Bosk
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Nethroi, Apex of Death
• 1 Overgrown Battlement
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 4 Plains
• 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Ready // Willing
• 1 Regrowth
• 1 Restless Fortress
• 1 Reunion of the House
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Seedborn Muse
• 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1 Shared Summons
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
• 1 Slaughter the Strong
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sylvan Caryatid
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Temple of Plenty
• 1 Tower Defense
• 1 Tree of Perdition
• 1 Tree of Redemption
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Tyvar's Stand
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Veil of Summer
• 1 Wall of Blossoms
• 1 Wall of Omens
• 1 Wall of Roots
• 1 Wave of Reckoning
• 1 Woodland Cemetery