We're going to build a wall and the opponents are going to pay for it. by user1424427

Format: Commander

Commander: Arcades, the Strategist

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

Led by Arcades, the Strategist, this Bant deck turns low-cost, high-toughness defenders into aggressive attackers and efficient card-draw engines. The deck curve focuses on 1- to 3-mana creatures such as Wall of Omens, Wall of Denial, and Overgrown Battlement. Once Arcades enters the battlefield, these defensive walls immediately attack using their toughness for damage while cantripping on entry. The deck secures card advantage and mana velocity through scaling mana dorks like Axebane Guardian and explosive draw bursts from mass flicker spells like Eerie Interlude and Clever Concealment. It breaks parity using asymmetric board wipes like Slaughter the Strong and Wave of Reckoning, which wipe opposing boards while sparing its zero-power army. Unblockable enablers like Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive and massive stat-boosters like Tower Defense close out games by turn 7. If Arcades is removed, redundant enablers like High Alert and Assault Formation keep the offensive pressure active.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aegis Turtle
  • 1 Angelic Chorus
  • 1 Arcades, the Strategist
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Bant Charm
  • 1 Bar the Door
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Captain America's Shield
  • 1 Carven Caryatid
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Collected Company
  • 1 Colossus of Akros
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Expel the Interlopers
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fog Bank
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Ghostway
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 High Alert
  • 1 Hover Barrier
  • 1 Huatli, the Sun's Heart
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lae'zel's Acrobatics
  • 1 Mnemonic Wall
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perimeter Captain
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rampart Architect
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rolling Stones
  • 1 Saruli Caretaker
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
  • 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Sunscape Familiar
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 The Pride of Hull Clade
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Walking Bulwark
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Denial
  • 1 Wall of Frost
  • 1 Wall of Hope
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wall of Reverence
  • 1 Wall of Roots
  • 1 Wall of Stolen Identity
  • 1 Wall of Tanglecord
  • 1 Wave of Reckoning
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels