Doran with his Rat Traps by Jonnyreco26

Format: Commander

Commander: Doran, Besieged by Time

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck executes an aggressive tribal swarm strategy built on 25 copies of Rat Colony within Abzan colors. The commander, Doran, Besieged by Time, serves as color access and an efficient blocker rather than an engine requirement. The deck accelerates in the opening turns with land ramp and cost reducers before deploying waves of Rats that scale each other's power. By Turn 4, the board presents multiple high-power threats. On Turn 5, tribal lords such as Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm and Marrow-Gnawer or mass ripple via Thrumming Stone turn the swarm into a game-ending combat wave. If opponents sweep the board, dedicated low-mana mass recursion spells like Raise the Past, Bloodbond March, and Fix What's Broken immediately rebuild the entire army from the graveyard.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adagia, Windswept Bastion
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bloodbond March
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Echoing Return
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fix What's Broken
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Marrow-Gnawer
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Piper of the Swarm
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Raise the Past
  • 25 Rat Colony
  • 1 Rat King, Verminister
  • 1 Remembrance
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Secret Salvage
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smile at Death
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sovereign Okinec Ahau
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swarmyard Massacre
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thrumming Stone
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth