New Untitled Deck by user5207715

Format: Commander

Commander: Arcades, the Strategist

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Bant defender deck is built around Arcades, the Strategist, converting high-toughness walls into card draw and attackers. The primary plan is to ramp into Arcades, chain cheap wall enters triggers, then close with a toughness-based swing. Secondary paths use High Alert, Assault Formation, or Bedrock Tortoise as replacements, and the Axebane Guardian/Overgrown Battlement + Staff of Domination loop for infinite draw and mana. There is no double-faced commander; the deck's hidden commander is The Pride of Hull Clade, a legendary toughness-matters threat that can finish when the wall count spikes. With redundant enablers and removal, the deck keeps its plan alive even if Arcades is answered.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcades, the Strategist
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Ghostway
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Alert
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hover Barrier
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jeskai Barricade
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mnemonic Wall
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Perimeter Captain
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resolute Watchdog
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Shield Sphere
  • 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Sunscape Familiar
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Teyo, the Shieldmage
  • 1 The Pride of Hull Clade
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Vine Trellis
  • 1 Walking Bulwark
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Denial
  • 1 Wall of Frost
  • 1 Wall of Junk
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wall of Roots
  • 1 Wall of Stolen Identity
  • 1 Wave of Reckoning
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Worldly Tutor