The Border by user6098123

Format: Commander

Creator: user6098123

Commander: Felothar the Steadfast

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan combat deck built around the toughness-matters mechanic, commanded by Felothar the Steadfast. It turns low-cost, high-toughness defenders into formidable offensive threats by assigning combat damage based on toughness and bypassing defender restrictions. The early turns focus on ramping with mana walls like Overgrown Battlement and Axebane Guardian while establishing cheap blockers. Once Felothar lands on Turn 4, the board immediately transitions into an aggressive stance. Felothar also provides potent mid-game card advantage by sacrificing high-toughness, low-power creatures to refill the hand. The deck breaks parity through asymmetric board wipes such as Slaughter the Strong and Dusk // Dawn, which eliminate standard threats while leaving its 0-power army intact. Games are closed out on Turns 6 to 8 using combat buffs like Tower Defense and evasion from Behind the Scenes and Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Angelic Wall
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 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 Canopy Gargantuan
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cruel Tutor
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expel the Interlopers
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Indomitable Ancients
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Loyal Unicorn
  • 1 Nyx-Fleece Ram
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Rampart Architect
  • 1 Reunion of the House
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selesnya Signet
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
  • 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
  • 1 Skeleton Key
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stoneskin
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Towering Titan
  • 1 Towering Viewpoint
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Walking Bulwark
  • 1 Wall Off
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wall of Resurgence
  • 1 Wall of Reverence
  • 1 Wall of Roots
  • 1 Wall of Tanglecord
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Wild-Field Scarecrow
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Wingmantle Chaplain
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn