Doran, the Sneeze Tower

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Multiplayer

Tartaras

Land (34)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 7x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (9)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Slagwurm Armor
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte

Instant (20)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Deglamer
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Natural State
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Wrath of God

Commander (1)

Creature (18)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Marble Titan
• 1x Monastery Mentor
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Skinshifter
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Wood Elves

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Behind the Scenes
• 1x Crackdown
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Sylvan Library

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Creature (2)

• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Chameleon Colossus

Instant (1)

• 1x Slaughter Pact

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The plan is simple: Stick an early Doran onto what should hopefully be an empty board. From there, back it up with a whack ton of removal spells to keep your opponents' creatures at bay. Behind the Scenes , Meekstone , Marble Titan and Crackdown all serve as ways to ensure a clear path to the face.

I tend to like to bounce around between decks regularly, and I hadn't built Doran in 6 years or more. I thought that while other players at the table are posturing and trying to set up combos and whatnot, I would just slam a 5/5 on turn 2 or 3 and put the early pressure on. Turns out it works, and I'm able to inflict heavy damage on people in the opening of the game. That can also serve to make spells like Ad Nauseam and Necropotence harder to use, since they care so much about your life total.

In addition to the early pressure, he's also inexpensive to cast, which allows you to replay him multiple times in the game if he gets killed. The only problem that can come from my self-imposed restriction of a hard cap at 4CMC is that in the later stages, you're wanting to hold up mana for removal spells to help prevent you from dying.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.23
Tokens	Monk 1/1 W