Wall by user1825603

Format: Commander

Commander: Arcades, the Strategist

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated Arcades, the Strategist defender/wall tribal build that transforms a field of high-toughness blockers into an aggressive, card-advantage engine. The primary game plan is to deploy Arcades as early as possible, then chain defend creatures onto the battlefield-each one triggers Arcades's draw ability-while mana dorks like Overgrown Battlement and Axebane Guardian accelerate the board. Win conditions revolve around overwhelming combat damage: Unnatural Growth doubles toughness each combat, Primal Rage gives trample, and The Pride of Hull Clade can draw an enormous number of cards when it connects. Last March of the Ents provides a massive burst of draw and deployment, while The Walls of Ba Sing Se grants indestructible to the entire board. The deck has no infinite combos; it wins through sheer toughness-based combat attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aegis of the Heavens
• 1 Arcades, the Strategist
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Axebane Guardian
• 1 Azorius Chancery
• 1 Bar the Door
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Brave the Sands
• 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1 Clinging Anemones
• 1 Colfenor's Urn
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corrupted Shapeshifter
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crashing Drawbridge
• 1 Dazzling Ramparts
• 1 Doorkeeper
• 1 Drift of Phantasms
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fell the Mighty
• 6 Forest
• 1 Gathering Place
• 1 Gilded Lotus
• 1 Glacial Wall
• 1 Gleaming Bastion
• 1 Growth Spiral
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 High Alert
• 1 Hover Barrier
• 9 Island
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Krosan Grip
• 1 Last March of the Ents
• 1 Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination
• 1 Meekstone
• 1 Mnemonic Wall
• 1 Monastery Flock
• 1 Murmuring Phantasm
• 1 Negate
• 1 Overgrown Battlement
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Perimeter Captain
• 7 Plains
• 1 Primal Rage
• 1 Raise the Past
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1 Shadowbringers
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Slagwurm Armor
• 1 Slaughter the Strong
• 1 Smile at Death
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solidarity
• 1 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
• 1 Stoneskin
• 1 Sunscape Familiar
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 The Pride of Hull Clade
• 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Three Steps Ahead
• 1 Tower Defense
• 1 Tree of Redemption
• 1 Unnatural Growth
• 1 Vibranium Dynamo
• 1 Vine Trellis
• 1 Wall Off
• 1 Wall of Blossoms
• 1 Wall of Denial
• 1 Wall of Frost
• 1 Wall of Junk
• 1 Wall of Mist
• 1 Wall of Omens
• 1 Wall of Reverence
• 1 Wall of Stolen Identity
• 1 Wall of Tears
• 1 Wingmantle Chaplain