Lumberyard by user9062790

Format: Commander

Commander: Doran, Besieged by Time

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a midrange Abzan toughness-matters deck helmed by Doran, Besieged by Time. The primary game plan is to deploy an enabler like Assault Formation or Bedrock Tortoise that lets creatures assign combat damage equal to their toughness, then swing with an army of high-toughness Treefolk and other defenders. The deck generates incremental value through life gain (Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, Treebeard, Gracious Host), saproling tokens (Nemata, Primeval Warden, Golgari Germination), and graveyard recursion (Eerie Ultimatum, Sigil of the New Dawn). Secondary win conditions include life-exchange effects (Tree of Redemption, Tree of Perdition) and the discard punishment package (Megrim, Painful Quandary, Tinybones, Bauble Burglar). The strategy is combat-focused and resilient, but lacks fast mana or explosive combos, winning through sustained board presence across multiple turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Charm
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Aegis of the Heavens
  • 1 Anafenza, the Foremost
  • 1 Ancient Adamantoise
  • 1 Ancient Lumberknot
  • 1 Arctic Treeline
  • 1 Armadillo Cloak
  • 1 Arrest
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Atraxa's Fall
  • 1 Aura Mutation
  • 1 Aven Mindcensor
  • 1 Ballroom
  • 1 Barrensteppe Siege
  • 1 Battlewand Oak
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Black Poplar Shaman
  • 1 Bosk Banneret
  • 1 Bristlebane Battler
  • 1 Captain America's Shield
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Dawn-Blessed Pennant
  • 1 Dawnglow Infusion
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Druidic Satchel
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Eerie Ultimatum
  • 1 Ferrafor, Young Yew
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Fracturing Gust
  • 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
  • 1 Golgari Germination
  • 1 Gravity Well
  • 1 Indatha Crystal
  • 1 Indomitable Ancients
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Kaya's Guile
  • 1 Kaya's Wrath
  • 1 Lifecrafter's Bestiary
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Moxite Refinery
  • 1 Necrogenesis
  • 1 Nemata, Primeval Warden
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Quickbeam, Upstart Ent
  • 1 Reaping Willow
  • 1 Refuse to Yield
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rush of Dread
  • 1 Safe Passage
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sapling Nursery
  • 1 Selesnya Guildgate
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sigil of the New Dawn
  • 1 Skinshifter
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 1 Stoneskin
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Tend the Sprigs
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
  • 1 Unbury
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Willow Geist
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Witch's Oven
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery