New Untitled Deck by user7675549

Format: Commander

Commander: Arcades, the Strategist

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 69

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered, highly optimized Bant aggro-combo engine centered on Arcades, the Strategist. By converting low-cost defenders into efficient cantrips and high-power attackers that assign combat damage equal to their toughness, the deck generates exceptional card velocity and board presence at negligible mana costs. Dense fast mana (Mox Diamond, Chrome Mox, Mana Vault, Sol Ring) guarantees Arcades arrives on Turn 2 or 3. Once active, defenders like Shield Sphere, Wall of Shards, and Wall of Blossoms supply explosive offense while keeping the hand fully stocked. The deck protects its proactive game plan using a premier suite of free countermagic, silence effects (Grand Abolisher, Teferi, Time Raveler, Silence), and board protection (Flare of Fortitude). Should combat stall, redundant enablers like High Alert and Plagon, Lord of the Beach or combo lines via Axebane Guardian and Displacer Kitten close games decisively by Turn 5 or 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Arcades, the Strategist
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterbalance
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 High Alert
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jeskai Barricade
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Orator of Ojutai
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Plagon, Lord of the Beach
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resolute Watchdog
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Secret Door
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shield Sphere
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulsworn Jury
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Steel Wall
  • 1 Sunscape Familiar
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 The Pride of Hull Clade
  • 1 Trickbind
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Vine Trellis
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wall of Roots
  • 1 Wall of Shards
  • 1 Wargate
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Worldly Tutor