Defense is Not Needed by Yontii

Format: Commander

Commander: The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This colorless Commander deck converts high-density artifact acceleration into fast combo finishes and resilient board states. Led by The Walls of Ba Sing Se, the deck uses its commander primarily as a defensive fortress that grants universal indestructible to all other permanents you control. The primary game plan accelerates into Mystic Forge alongside a cost-reducing artifact creature and Sensei's Divining Top. This interaction draws the entire library and wins in the same turn via Aetherflux Reservoir or Glaring Fleshraker. Backup win conditions include infinite colorless mana through Basalt Monolith and Forsaken Monument, Marit Lage production via Dark Depths and Thespian's Stage, and unblockable 30-damage wall strikes with Walking Bulwark. The deck controls opposing tempo using asymmetric disruption like Karn, the Great Creator, Meekstone, and All Is Dust, while maintaining strong recovery through artifact recursion and redundant combo pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 All Is Dust
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blasted Landscape
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Champion's Helm
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cryptothrall
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deserted Temple
  • 1 Echoes of Eternity
  • 1 Echoing Deeps
  • 1 Eldrazi Confluence
  • 1 Eldrazi Conscription
  • 1 Eldritch Immunity
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Glaring Fleshraker
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 It That Heralds the End
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Karn, the Great Creator
  • 1 Kozilek's Command
  • 1 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Meekstone
  • 1 Metalworker
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Miren, the Moaning Well
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Mycosynth Golem
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
  • 1 Null Elemental Blast
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Pariah's Shield
  • 1 Plague Myr
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Selective Obliteration
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
  • 1 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Suspicious Bookcase
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 The Ten Rings
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Ugin, Eye of the Storms
  • 1 Ugin, the Ineffable
  • 1 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Urza's Workshop
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Voltaic Construct
  • 1 Walking Atlas
  • 1 Walking Bulwark
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Warping Wail
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 9 Wastes
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Zuko's Exile