Doran, the Siege Tower

Legendary Creature — Treefolk Shaman

Each creature assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Discussion (49)

TriusMalarky on Azorius Testudo

2 months ago

• Doran, the Siege Tower is not Pioneer legal RaidenShogun69

• The Wanderer is bad here. You just don't care about the damage prevention, as common red removal doesn't hurt you anyways.

• Unbreakable Formation is also not great here. It's for playing on turn 3 or 4 to buff your weenies for the kill, or to prevent a wrath from ending the game. You're not white weenie. I don't recommend any copies, but one or possibly two could be valuable.

• Angelic Gift is not worth it at all. Tetsuko does that job for you. Run more big butts like God-Pharaoh's Faithful

• You still have basically no real removal. Portable Hole is good, Settle the Wreckage , Declaration in Stone , Detention Sphere . . . there's a lot to choose from. Or, add countermagic like Absorb , Quench , or Disallow .

• Definitely add two more Dusk / Dawn to the sideboard. It's not great all the time, but in the matchups where it's good you want four.

RaidenShogun69 on Azorius Testudo

2 months ago

Doran, the Siege Tower

skalisty on Defender Tribal

4 months ago

Not to mention, Doran, the Siege Tower alone doesn't allow the creatures with defender to attack.

zapyourtumor on Defender Tribal

4 months ago

Doran, the Siege Tower is a hit off CoCo so I'd replacce high alert with those if you can splash black, then go up to 4 cocos. Not sure if its worth going 4c for though.

Also Perimeter Captain

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5 months ago

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legendofa on None

5 months ago

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RNR_Gaming on Languish Vs. Ritual of Soot

5 months ago

Meta dependent. They both remove things well but in certain scenarios one out performs the other. In a low to the ground metagame they'll both do well. Languish laughs at cards like Heroic Intervention and Wrap in Vigor ; however it may not be a good match for Doran, the Siege Tower or Arcades, the Strategist - Granted, defender decks are niche but it should be a consideration. Basically, if your meta has a loads of low cmc creatures with high toughness run Ritual and if it's just low to the ground creatures with protection/industructable shenanigans run languish.

Unlife on What are your Favorite Commanders?

6 months ago

Ezuri, Claw of Progress has so many cheap value creatures, you can build an insane boardstate quickly. On the more expensive end, I play a Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder deck that's dragon tribal, but running him with a bunch of cascade/free cost spell and effects can turn a modest field into insanity rather rapidly. Doran, the Siege Tower lets you play a lot of defensive creatures that can easily turn around and wreck someone. A more general option is Surrak Dragonclaw who has the colors and support for dropping huge creatures and dealing damage.