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Doran, the Siege Tower

Legendary Creature — Treefolk Shaman

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

CMC
3
Mana cost
{W}{B}{G}
Color identity
BGW
Rarity
rare
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#5365
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Doran, the Siege Tower card art
Doran, the Siege Tower turns every high-toughness creature into a beatdown threat, and a 5/5 for three mana that also buffs your whole board is an absurd rate. The cost is symmetry — opponents' walls and defenders get the same treatment, and Doran, Besieged by Time aside, the card rewards you most when your deck is explicitly built around toughness-matters payoffs like Angelic Protector.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Doran, Besieged by Time

Doran, Besieged by Time

63.6% of decks · synergy 0.55

Doran, Besieged by Time is the definitive home for Doran, the Siege Tower — the commander's entire game plan is built around toughness-based attacks, so the Siege Tower isn't a synergy piece, it's a core engine piece that shows up in nearly two-thirds of all lists.

02
Betor, Kin to All

Betor, Kin to All

54.3% of decks · synergy 0.45

Betor, Kin to All leans on high-toughness creatures across multiple creature types, and Doran, the Siege Tower converts that defensive bulk into a legitimate offense without requiring any additional setup.

03
Felothar the Steadfast

Felothar the Steadfast

40.0% of decks · synergy 0.31

Felothar the Steadfast rewards creatures that survive combat, and Doran, the Siege Tower flips the math so Felothar's sturdy bodies are trading up — or connecting cleanly — instead of sitting back on defense.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is by far the primary home for Doran, the Siege Tower, either leading a dedicated toughness deck or slotting into the 99 of any Abzan shell that wants a three-mana 5/5 with upside. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but sees virtually no play — the formats are too fast and too hostile to a three-color legend that does nothing on resolution. Modern is where the most plausible non-Commander case exists: toughness-matters archetypes like Assault Formation decks have experimented with it, though it never broke through as a tier staple. Oathbreaker is legal and mirrors the Commander dynamic closely, rewarding the same toughness-synergy build.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for Doran, the Siege Tower isn't available in this context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the most accurate figure. It has been reprinted and tends to sit in the $3–8 range historically, which is reasonable given its unique effect and the fact that nothing else on three mana does exactly what it does.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.