New Untitled Deck by kgardner2775

Format: Commander

Commander: Arcades, the Strategist

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Arcades, the Strategist leads a defender tribal deck that turns high-toughness Walls into card draw and lethal attackers. The primary plan is to cast Arcades, flood the board with 0/X defenders that replace themselves, and attack for toughness-based damage, often made unblockable by Tetsuko Umezawa. High Alert and Plagon, Lord of the Beach serve as backup commanders that preserve the damage and attack permission if Arcades is removed. Secondary paths include an Axebane Guardian plus High Alert infinite mana engine that needs a separate outlet, and overrun finishes with Unnatural Growth, Tower Defense, or Akroma's Will. The deck controls the board with toughness-friendly wipes and Aura Shards while drawing heavily off defenders.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Angelic Wall
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arcades, the Strategist
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Carven Caryatid
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chulane, Teller of Tales
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 High Alert
  • 1 Hover Barrier
  • 1 Jeskai Barricade
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meekstone
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Orator of Ojutai
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Plagon, Lord of the Beach
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resolute Watchdog
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riptide Turtle
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shield Sphere
  • 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
  • 1 Steel Wall
  • 1 Sunscape Familiar
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 The Aetherspark
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Pride of Hull Clade
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Towering Titan
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vine Trellis
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Denial
  • 1 Wall of Junk
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wall of Runes
  • 1 Wall of Shards
  • 1 Wave of Reckoning
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast