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Pro Tour Champion Craig Wescoe is known for playing white cards, but sometimes he splashes other colors. For Pro Tour Fate Reforged, he decided to go the Abzan route like many others, but his deck was anything but orthodox.

Doran, the Siege Tower pairs well with Spellskite, allowing you to attack for four with your maindeck Burn and Splinter Twin hate card. Lingering Souls helps fight Infect, Affinity, and the mirror match. Copies of Sorin, Solemn Visitor, Vault of the Archangel, and Timely Reinforcements out of the sideboard do good work against Burn. Overall, it looked like Craig was well prepared for the Pro Tour field.

With no disruption, Craig’s deck appears to be weak against most combo decks, and I wouldn’t be surprised if traditional Abzan was a slight favorite, but this treefolk deck looks pretty good for an unknown Modern metagame.

Doran, the Siege Tower

Craig Wescoe

138th Place at Pro Tour on 02-08-2015

Modern

Creatures (20)

• 4 Birds of Paradise
• 4 Tarmogoyf
• 4 Doran, the Siege Tower
• 4 Spellskite
• 4 Siege Rhino

Planeswalkers (4)

• 4 Sorin, Solemn Visitor

Lands (24)

• 1 Forest
• 1 Plains
• 2 Treetop Village
• 1 Swamp
• 4 Windswept Heath
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Murmuring Bosk
• 4 Marsh Flats
• 4 Verdant Catacombs
• 2 Stirring Wildwood
• 1 Vault of the Archangel

Spells (12)

• 4 Path to Exile
• 4 Lingering Souls
• 4 Abrupt Decay

Sideboard

• 1 Cranial Extraction
• 2 Darkblast
• 1 Harmonize
• 2 Baneslayer Angel
• 1 Back to Nature
• 2 Memoricide
• 3 Timely Reinforcements
• 3 Stony Silence