WALLS by Sizzle

Format: Commander

Commander: Arcades, the Strategist

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This Bant deck turns low-cost, high-toughness defender creatures into efficient beatsticks and draw engines led by Arcades, the Strategist. The core strategy deploys resilient walls on turns 1 through 3, establishes Arcades on turn 4, and uses his static abilities to draw cards on creature entry while converting high toughness directly into combat damage. The deck exerts rapid combat pressure by turn 5, presenting massive attackers like Wall of Denial and Hover Barrier for negligible mana costs. Asymmetric board sweepers like Slaughter the Strong, Fell the Mighty, and Dusk // Dawn decimate opposing creature boards while leaving your zero-power defenders completely intact. Protection spells such as Ghostway, Eerie Interlude, and Cosmic Intervention shield your army from sweepers and mass exile while re-triggering Arcades for explosive hand refills. Redundant toughness-combat enablers like High Alert and Assault Formation ensure the deck functions smoothly even when Arcades is removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Angelic Shield
• 1 Angelic Wall
• 1 Arcades, the Strategist
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assault Formation
• 1 Axebane Guardian
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Carven Caryatid
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cosmic Intervention
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crashing Drawbridge
• 1 Crystal Barricade
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Drift of Phantasms
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Eerie Interlude
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fecund Greenshell
• 1 Fell the Mighty
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 7 Forest
• 1 Fortified Rampart
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Ghostway
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Gleaming Barrier
• 1 High Alert
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Hover Barrier
• 1 Huatli, the Sun's Heart
• 7 Island
• 1 Jeskai Barricade
• 1 Jungle Barrier
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Orator of Ojutai
• 1 Overgrown Battlement
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Perimeter Captain
• 9 Plains
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Portcullis Vine
• 1 Rampart Architect
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Rasaad yn Bashir
• 1 Resolute Watchdog
• 1 Seaside Citadel
• 1 Shield Sphere
• 1 Slaughter the Strong
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
• 1 Steel Wall
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Sunscape Familiar
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sylvan Caryatid
• 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1 The Pride of Hull Clade
• 1 Tower Defense
• 1 Vine Trellis
• 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1 Walking Bulwark
• 1 Wall of Blossoms
• 1 Wall of Denial
• 1 Wall of Essence
• 1 Wall of Glare
• 1 Wall of Mulch
• 1 Wall of Omens
• 1 Wall of Roots
• 1 Wall of Runes
• 1 Wall of Shards
• 1 Wall of Tanglecord
• 1 Wall of Vines
• 1 Weathered Sentinels
• 1 Yavimaya Coast