Arca de Noé B3 by user7680411

Format: Commander

Commander: Arcades, the Strategist

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This Bant deck is an aggressive combat-midrange engine built around Arcades, the Strategist. The strategy leverages low-mana, high-toughness defender creatures that function as hyper-efficient beaters and cantrips under Arcades's static abilities. Early turns focus on establishing mana dorks like Overgrown Battlement and Axebane Guardian alongside resilient walls. Once Arcades enters on Turn 4, every subsequent defender draws a card and attacks for damage equal to its toughness. The deck turns high-stat defensive staples like Wall of Denial (8 damage for 3 mana) and The Pride of Hull Clade (15 damage for minimal mana) into lethal threats. It supports this aggro engine with asymmetric sweepers such as Slaughter the Strong and Wave of Reckoning, which wipe opposing boards while sparing 0-power defenders. With robust protection like Eerie Interlude and redundant enablers like High Alert, the deck maintains consistent pressure to close out multiplayer pods by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Alchemist's Refuge
• 1 Angelic Wall
• 1 Arcades, the Strategist
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assault Formation
• 1 Axebane Guardian
• 1 Azorius Chancery
• 1 Azorius Guildgate
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Bar the Door
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Blossoming Sands
• 1 Body of Research
• 1 Brave the Sands
• 1 Carven Caryatid
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crashing Drawbridge
• 1 Crystal Barricade
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dive Down
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Drift of Phantasms
• 1 Eerie Interlude
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Expel the Interlopers
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fog Bank
• 7 Forest
• 1 Fortified Rampart
• 1 Gatecreeper Vine
• 1 High Alert
• 1 Hover Barrier
• 1 Huatli, the Sun's Heart
• 6 Island
• 1 Jeskai Barricade
• 1 Meticulous Excavation
• 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1 Negate
• 1 Overgrown Battlement
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Perimeter Captain
• 5 Plains
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Resolute Watchdog
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Seaside Citadel
• 1 Selesnya Guildgate
• 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
• 1 Simic Guildgate
• 1 Slaughter the Strong
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 1 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
• 1 Stoneskin
• 1 Sunscape Familiar
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sylvan Caryatid
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1 Teyo, the Shieldmage
• 1 The Pride of Hull Clade
• 1 Thornwood Falls
• 1 Tower Defense
• 1 Towering Titan
• 1 Tranquil Cove
• 1 Tyvar's Stand
• 1 Vine Trellis
• 1 Walking Bulwark
• 1 Wall of Blossoms
• 1 Wall of Denial
• 1 Wall of Glare
• 1 Wall of Omens
• 1 Wall of Roots
• 1 Wall of Runes
• 1 Wall of Stolen Identity
• 1 Wall of Tanglecord
• 1 Wave of Reckoning
• 1 Weathered Sentinels
• 1 Wingmantle Chaplain