ARCADES #1 (B3) by 2SIDI

Format: Commander

Commander: Arcades, the Strategist

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Arcades, the Strategist heads an aggressive toughness-matters deck that transforms inexpensive defenders into lethal, card-drawing beaters. The game plan relies on deploying high-toughness walls early to draw cards, build massive board presence, and push large amounts of combat damage through toughness-to-power assignment. Backups like High Alert and Assault Formation ensure the team can attack even without the commander. The deck finishes games through explosive alpha strikes supported by unblockable effects, overwhelming overrun pumps such as Tower Defense or Unnatural Growth, or an infinite-mana combo pairing Axebane Guardian with High Alert to pump the team using Finale of Devastation.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Akroma's Will
• 1 Arbor Adherent
• 1 Arcades, the Strategist
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assault Formation
• 1 Axebane Guardian
• 1 Bountiful Promenade
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Continue?
• 1 Crashing Drawbridge
• 1 Crystal Barricade
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Deserted Beach
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Drift of Phantasms
• 1 Eladamri's Call
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Ensnaring Bridge
• 1 Everybody Lives!
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 8 Forest
• 1 Gathering Place
• 1 Ghostway
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Gleaming Bastion
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Green Sun's Zenith
• 1 Growth Spiral
• 1 High Alert
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Jeskai Barricade
• 1 Last March of the Ents
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Mind into Matter
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Nature's Claim
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Overgrown Battlement
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Path to Exile
• 8 Plains
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Reverse the Polarity
• 1 Shield Sphere
• 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
• 1 Slaughter the Strong
• 1 Sodden Verdure
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spellseeker
• 1 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
• 1 Sterling Grove
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Sunscape Familiar
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sylvan Caryatid
• 1 Talisman of Curiosity
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Talisman of Unity
• 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1 The Pride of Hull Clade
• 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Tooth and Nail
• 1 Tower Defense
• 1 Towering Titan
• 1 Unnatural Growth
• 1 Utopia Sprawl
• 1 Vine Trellis
• 1 Walking Bulwark
• 1 Wall of Blossoms
• 1 Wall of Denial
• 1 Wall of Frost
• 1 Wall of Omens
• 1 Wall of Stolen Identity
• 1 Wave of Reckoning
• 1 Wingmantle Chaplain