Abzan big butts by CptBstrd

Format: Commander

Commander: Felothar the Steadfast

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan toughness-matters combat engine led by Felothar the Steadfast. It turns low-power, high-toughness defenders into formidable attackers by assigning combat damage equal to toughness and ignoring the defender restriction. During the early turns, the deck develops its mana and deploys durable creatures such as Wall of Blossoms, Overgrown Battlement, and Tree of Redemption. Casting Felothar unlocks both aggressive combat potential and a powerful draw engine that sacrifices high-toughness creatures to refill the hand with minimal discard. The deck maintains battlefield dominance using asymmetric board wipes like Slaughter the Strong and Dusk // Dawn, which destroy opponents' high-power threats while leaving its own resilient army intact. Evasion enablers like Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa and Behind the Scenes, alongside massive pumps from Tower Defense and Baldin, Century Herdmaster, close out the game over two to three combat steps. The strategy offers remarkable physical durability and card flow but remains vulnerable to commander removal and flying blockers.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Ancient Adamantoise
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arbor Adherent
• 1 Arboreal Grazer
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assault Formation
• 1 Axebane Guardian
• 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
• 1 Behind the Scenes
• 1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Buried in the Garden
• 1 Canopy Gargantuan
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Colfenor's Urn
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crashing Drawbridge
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Despark
• 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
• 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Expel the Interlopers
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Felothar the Steadfast
• 7 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Great Forest Druid
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hushwood Verge
• 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
• 1 Indomitable Ancients
• 1 Indulging Patrician
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jaws of Defeat
• 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
• 1 Map the Frontier
• 1 Nyx-Fleece Ram
• 1 Overgrown Battlement
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Overlord of the Hauntwoods
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 6 Plains
• 1 Radiant Grove
• 1 Reach the Horizon
• 1 Reunion of the House
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Seedborn Muse
• 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1 Shared Roots
• 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
• 1 Slaughter the Strong
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Staff of Compleation
• 1 Sungrass Prairie
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Temple of Plenty
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• 1 Tip the Scales
• 1 Tower Defense
• 1 Towering Titan
• 1 Tree of Redemption
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Wakestone Gargoyle
• 1 Walking Bulwark
• 1 Wall of Blossoms
• 1 Wall of Limbs
• 1 Wall of Omens
• 1 Wall of Reverence
• 1 Weathered Sentinels
• 1 Will of the Abzan
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn