Arcades, the Strategist

Commander / EDH Defender GWU (Bant) Wall

DavidSP

Creature (35)

• 1x Angelic Wall
• 1x Axebane Guardian
• 1x Consulate Skygate
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Gleaming Barrier
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x Jaddi Offshoot
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Perimeter Captain
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Resolute Watchdog
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Saruli Caretaker
• 1x Stalwart Shield-Bearers
• 1x Sunscape Familiar
• 1x Suspicious Bookcase
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x Vine Trellis
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Denial
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wall of Hope
• 1x Wall of Junk
• 1x Wall of Kelp
• 1x Wall of Mist
• 1x Wall of Mulch
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Wall of Runes
• 1x Wall of Tanglecord
• 1x Wall of Vines

Land (33)

• 1x Arctic Flats
• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 7x Forest
• 1x Grasslands
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 4x Island
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Naya Panorama
• 1x Opal Palace
• 4x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Assault Formation
• 1x High Alert
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Sight of the Scalelords
• 1x Song of Freyalise
• 1x Teferi's Veil

Commander (1)

Artifact (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Marble Diamond
• 1x Neurok Stealthsuit
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Unity
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Fell the Mighty
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Slaughter the Strong

Instant (6)

• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Sejiri Shelter  ^Flip
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tower Defense

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Creature (10)

• 1x Brazen Borrower
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Living Wall
• 1x Steel Wall
• 1x Tree of Redemption
• 1x Wall of Deceit
• 1x Wall of Essence
• 1x Wall of Glare
• 1x Wall of Reverence
• 1x Wall of Tears

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Angelic Chorus
• 1x Sight of the Scalelords
• 1x Vanishing
• 1x Wild Pair

Land (2)

• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x The Wanderer

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Edge of Autumn
• 1x Return to the Ranks
• 1x Wave of Reckoning

Artifact (2)

• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Slagwurm Armor

Instant (1)

• 1x Bar the Door

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The idea of this deck is (the usual) using Arcades, the Strategist card draw engine by playing a lot of cheap defenders and swing with them.

Since Arcades should come out as soon as possible I mainly stuck to 2 CMC ramp. Apart from that I run Neurok Stealthsuit an Swiftfoot Boots to protect Arcades I like the suit since it can be equiped instant speed and can also protect other important creatures.

Attacking with those cheap defenders is fine (there should be enough of them steadily coming) and to come through I also run (of course) Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive , Sight of the Scalelords , Assault Formation and Teferi's Veil (mainly as protection against boardwipes).

So Tetsuko is one win condition, the other I directly thought of was Psychosis Crawler a card that plays well to Arcades abilities I think.

I run 35 Lands and I do not see the need to run more due to the build in card draw; since nearly all my creatures are expendable I did not include any counter magic. I added one copy of Asceticism which I am not super sure about but it may give some additional protection for my key creatures.

Tell me what you think of this; there is always room for improvement so I am excited to hear your suggestions and will especially consider them if they are on budget. I guess Arcades Decks are pretty straight forward but surely I missed some good includes :).

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH GWU (Bant) 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 20 - 0 Rares 31 - 0 Uncommons 32 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.43
Tokens	0/1 U Creature Plant Wall, Elephant 3/3 G, Treasure