City Walls by WaywardHex

Format: Commander

Commander: Arcades, the Strategist

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Arcades, the Strategist leads a defender tribal deck that turns walls into card draw and attackers. The primary plan is to deploy Arcades, play cheap 0/4+ defenders, and attack with toughness-based damage while drawing into more walls and interaction. Secondary paths include the Axebane Guardian + High Alert infinite mana combo, a Maze's End Gate win, and toughness-matters beatdown via Assault Formation, Huatli, or Walking Bulwark. The commander is the main draw engine and combat enabler; the deck still functions without it through redundant toughness-matters effects, but loses significant velocity. The deck is built to use Arcades' front face, with no double-faced commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Aftermath Analyst
• 1 Amaranthine Wall
• 1 Arcades, the Strategist
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ascend from Avernus
• 1 Assault Formation
• 1 Auroral Procession
• 1 Axebane Guardian
• 1 Azorius Chancery
• 1 Azorius Guildgate
• 1 Baldur's Gate
• 1 Bark of Doran
• 1 Basilisk Gate
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Captain America's Shield
• 1 Cathedral Membrane
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Citadel Gate
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crashing Drawbridge
• 1 Crystal Barricade
• 1 Dawn Charm
• 1 Dormant Grove // Gnarled Grovestrider
• 1 Dragon Throne of Tarkir
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Flood Plain
• 1 Flumph
• 1 Gatecreeper Vine
• 1 Gateway Plaza
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Gond Gate
• 1 Grasslands
• 1 Heap Gate
• 1 High Alert
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Hold the Gates
• 1 Huatli, the Sun's Heart
• 1 Idyllic Beachfront
• 1 Irrigated Farmland
• 1 Jaddi Offshoot
• 1 Living Wall
• 1 Manor Gate
• 1 Maze's End
• 1 Nimbus Maze
• 1 Open the Gates
• 1 Overgrown Battlement
• 1 Perimeter Captain
• 1 Radiant Grove
• 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
• 1 Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rolling Stones
• 1 Saruli Caretaker
• 1 Scattered Groves
• 1 Sea Gate
• 1 Seaside Citadel
• 1 Selesnya Guildgate
• 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
• 1 Shifting Wall
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Simic Guildgate
• 1 Slagwurm Armor
• 1 Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spara's Headquarters
• 1 Splendid Reclamation
• 1 Stoneskin
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Sunscape Familiar
• 1 Suspicious Bookcase
• 1 Sylvan Caryatid
• 1 Talisman of Curiosity
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Talisman of Unity
• 1 Tangled Islet
• 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 Testament of Faith
• 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• 1 Thran Portal
• 1 Tree of Redemption
• 1 Treva's Ruins
• 1 Urban Retreat
• 1 Vine Trellis
• 1 Walking Bulwark
• 1 Wall of Blossoms
• 1 Wall of Caltrops
• 1 Wall of Denial
• 1 Wall of Frost
• 1 Wall of Junk
• 1 Wall of Kelp
• 1 Wall of Omens
• 1 Wall of Roots
• 1 Wall of Tears
• 1 Weathered Sentinels
• 1 Willowrush Verge
• 1 Worn Powerstone