Felothar the Steadfast

Gameplan

Felothar turns toughness into both your offense and your card advantage, so you build a wall of high-toughness creatures and Walls-with-defender that suddenly become lethal attackers. You ramp into beefy defensive bodies, swing for damage equal to their toughness, and use the activated ability to sacrifice low-power/high-toughness blockers for a flood of cards. Close games by attacking with enormous toughness, going wide, or assembling toughness-payoff combos.

Key Cards

• Doran, the Siege Tower — Redundant toughness-as-damage anchor that stacks perfectly with Felothar's combat rule for an unstoppable wall army.
• Assault Formation — Backup for toughness-deals-damage plus an anthem that pumps toughness, boosting both offense and card draw.
• Tree of Perdition — Massive toughness body that hits like a truck and draws a huge hand when sacrificed to Felothar.
• High Alert — Another toughness-damage redundancy that also lets your defenders attack and untaps for surprise blocks.
• Wall of Roots — Cheap ramp body with strong toughness that fuels both early defense and later card draw.
• Indrik Stomphowler — Representative of toughness-matters payoffs; the deck wants creatures whose toughness vastly exceeds power.

Upgrade Path

Lean harder into toughness payoffs like Doran, Arcades, the Strategist effects, and counter-based toughness boosters (Branching Evolution, Hardened Scales) to amplify both combat and draws. Add cheap, recurring sacrifice fodder and reanimation (Reassembling Skeleton, Glissa Sunslayer, Eternal Witness) to keep the engine humming, plus protection like Heroic Intervention and Teferi's Protection against the board wipes that threaten your whole army. Tighten the mana with fast rocks and dual lands so you can reliably deploy a four-drop commander and immediately use the draw ability.