New Untitled Deck by user6760475

Format: Commander

Commander: Arcades, the Strategist

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant defender deck led by Arcades, the Strategist. The core strategy turns cheap, high-toughness wall creatures into efficient attackers while maintaining strong card advantage. Arcades enables defenders to assign combat damage equal to their toughness and attack freely, while also drawing a card whenever a creature with defender enters the battlefield. The deck takes advantage of asymmetric board wipes such as Slaughter the Strong, The Battle of Bywater, and Wave of Reckoning to clear opposing boards while keeping its own low-power defenders intact. Mana velocity comes from low-cost mana rocks and scaling defender dorks like Overgrown Battlement and Axebane Guardian. Redundant enablers like High Alert and Assault Formation keep the deck functional if Arcades is removed. The deck closes games with wide toughness-based attacks, amplified by overrun effects like Tower Defense or infinite mana through Axebane Guardian and Gauntlets of Light.

Decklist (102 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Arcades, the Strategist
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assault Formation
• 1 Axebane Guardian
• 1 Bedrock Tortoise
• 1 Botanical Sanctum
• 1 Bountiful Promenade
• 1 Brave the Sands
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 2 Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crashing Drawbridge
• 1 Crystal Barricade
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Enduring Innocence
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Expel the Interlopers
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fecund Greenshell
• 1 Fell the Mighty
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 5 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Gauntlets of Light
• 1 Ghostway
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Guardian Project
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 High Alert
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Horizon Canopy
• 1 Hover Barrier
• 6 Island
• 1 Last March of the Ents
• 1 Negate
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Overgrown Battlement
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Perimeter Captain
• 7 Plains
• 1 Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Razorverge Thicket
• 1 Restricted Office // Lecture Hall
• 1 Reunion of the House
• 1 Rigo, Streetwise Mentor
• 1 Seachrome Coast
• 1 Seaside Citadel
• 1 Selesnya Signet
• 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
• 2 Slaughter the Strong
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spara's Headquarters
• 1 Sporocyst
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sylvan Caryatid
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Talisman of Unity
• 1 Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset
• 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1 The Battle of Bywater
• 1 The Birth of Meletis
• 1 The Pride of Hull Clade
• 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• 1 Tower Defense
• 1 Towering Titan
• 1 Unnatural Growth
• 1 Wakestone Gargoyle
• 1 Walking Bulwark
• 1 Wall of Blossoms
• 1 Wall of Denial
• 1 Wall of Frost
• 1 Wall of Omens
• 1 Wall of Stolen Identity
• 1 Wave of Reckoning