B3 ARCADES 2gc 3t by user3596878

Format: Commander

Commander: Arcades, the Strategist

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant (UGW) defender tribal build helmed by Arcades, the Strategist. The primary game plan is to deploy cheap walls and defender creatures, use Arcades's ETB trigger to draw cards, and then attack using toughness as power via the commander or backup enablers Assault Formation, High Alert, and Bedrock Tortoise. The deck generates substantial card advantage from Wall of Omens, Wall of Blossoms, and similar ETB-draw walls, while ramp defenders like Axebane Guardian and Overgrown Battlement accelerate the mana base. Win conditions are combat-oriented: overwhelming the board with huge-toughness creatures (Towering Titan, The Pride of Hull Clade), mass token generation from Wingmantle Chaplain, and finishing with pump effects like True Conviction, Unnatural Growth, or Akroma's Memorial. There is no infinite-combo line; the path to victory is incremental but resilient.

Decklist (107 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arcades, the Strategist
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Ensnaring Bridge
  • 1 Everybody Lives!
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Floriferous Vinewall
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gathering Place
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Ghostway
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Alert
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Jeskai Barricade
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mind into Matter
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Plagon, Lord of the Beach
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield
  • 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 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Sunscape Familiar
  • 1 Suspicious Bookcase
  • 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 The Wanderer
  • 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 Kelp
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wall of Roots
  • 1 Wall of Runes
  • 1 Wave of Reckoning
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Worldly Tutor