Doran, Tree Man by user6881227

Format: Commander

Commander: Doran, Besieged by Time

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This deck is a Treefolk tribal build helmed by Doran, Besieged by Time, leveraging the tribal theme to exploit toughness-based combat damage. The core strategy revolves around playing high-toughness, low-power Treefolk and using effects like Assault Formation, Ancient Lumberknot, Bedrock Tortoise, and Bark of Doran to have those creatures deal damage equal to their toughness. The commander reduces the cost of such creatures and provides a massive power/toughness buff each time they attack or block, accelerating the clock. The deck aims to overwhelm opponents with a board of huge butts, supported by ramp, a few board wipes, and a recursion package via Colfenor, the Last Yew and Colfenor's Urn. Primary win conditions are combat damage with trample from Primal Rage and the life-halving end-step trigger of Betor, Kin to All.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Charm
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Ancient Lumberknot
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
  • 1 Bark of Doran
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Black Poplar Shaman
  • 1 Blighted Blackthorn
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bosk Banneret
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Colfenor's Urn
  • 1 Colfenor, the Last Yew
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
  • 1 Dormant Grove // Gnarled Grovestrider
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Fangorn, Tree Shepherd
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Indomitable Ancients
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Leaf-Crowned Elder
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Moonlit Lamenter
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nyx-Fleece Ram
  • 1 Orchard Warden
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Primal Rage
  • 1 Quickbeam, Upstart Ent
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reaping Willow
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sapling Nursery
  • 1 Sapling of Colfenor
  • 1 Sinister Gnarlbark
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stoneskin
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tend the Sprigs
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Timber Protector
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Treefolk Harbinger
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth