Baby Got Back by MrBellyRubz

Format: Commander

Commander: Felothar the Steadfast

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Abzan "toughness matters" deck built around Felothar the Steadfast, whose static ability turns every bulky wall into an attacker and whose activated ability converts high-toughness bodies into burst card draw - usually with no discard, since many of the creatures have power 0. The 99 is a defender shell packed with mana dorks, ETB-draw walls, and redundant toughness-damage enablers like Doran, the Siege Tower, Bedrock Tortoise, and Baldin, Century Herdmaster. The deck wins primarily through overwhelming combat, often pivoting to drain/life-loss effects from Blight Pile, Betor, Kin to All, and Jaws of Defeat. Asymmetric board wipes like Expel the Interlopers and Slaughter the Strong spare the 0-power wall core, while Tip the Scales can turn a single giant wall into a one-sided wipe. It is a midrange/grindy strategy that punishes boards that cannot handle huge toughness values.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Behind the Scenes
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Blight Pile
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Canopy Gargantuan
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Carven Caryatid
  • 1 Colfenor's Urn
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expel the Interlopers
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Indomitable Ancients
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Rampart Architect
  • 1 Reunion of the House
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selesnya Signet
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Tip the Scales
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Towering Titan
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Walking Bulwark
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wall of Roots
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery