Card
Doran, Besieged by Time
Mana cost {1}{W}{B}{G}
Legendary Creature — Treefolk Druid 0/5
Each creature spell you cast with toughness greater than its power costs {1} less to cast. Whenever a creature you control attacks or blocks, it gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the difference between its power and toughness.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · ECL · #215
- Cheapest printing
- €0.50
- EDHREC salt
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- Color identity
- Black, Green, White
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast
The value of X is calculated only once, as Doran's last ability resolves. - 2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast
Doran's first ability applies only to generic mana in the total cost of creature spells you cast with toughness greater than their power. - 2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as a flashback cost), add any cost increases (such as kicker costs), then apply any cost reductions (such as that of this ability). The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was. - 2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast
To find the difference between a creature's power and its toughness, subtract the smaller of those two numbers from the larger one. For example, the difference between the power and toughness of a 3/5 creature is 2. The difference between the power and toughness of a 5/3 creature is also 2.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast