New Untitled Deck by ARA21

Format: Commander

Creator: ARA21

Commander: Arcades, the Strategist

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Arcades, the Strategist turns cheap, high-toughness defenders into undercosted beatsticks while converting every defender cast into fresh card draw. The primary plan develops a broad defensive board, establishes combat damage based on toughness, and crashes through with mass buffs like Tower Defense, evasion via Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive, or a lethal swing backed by Akroma's Will. The deck also features a compact secondary win line using Axebane Guardian and High Alert to generate infinite colored mana, which unlocks infinite untaps and pumps to easily close the game through Finale of Devastation or Walking Bulwark.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Arcades, the Strategist
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chulane, Teller of Tales
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 14 Forest
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 High Alert
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Jeskai Barricade
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Meekstone
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Shield Sphere
  • 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Sunscape Familiar
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Talisman of Unity
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 The Pride of Hull Clade
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Towering Titan
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Vine Trellis
  • 1 Walking Bulwark
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Frost
  • 1 Wall of Junk
  • 1 Wall of Mulch
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wall of Roots
  • 1 Wall of Runes
  • 1 Wall of Shards
  • 1 Wall of Stolen Identity
  • 1 Worldly Tutor