[Budget EDH] why are there so many walls

Commander / EDH Aggro Budget Defender GWU (Bant) Tempo Theme/Gimmick Wall

Azeure

Creature (32)

• 1x Axebane Guardian
• 1x Chulane, Teller of Tales
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Crystal Barricade
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Fortified Rampart
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x Jeskai Barricade
• 1x Orator of Ojutai
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Perimeter Captain
• 1x Resolute Watchdog
• 1x Riptide Turtle
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
• 1x Stalwart Shield-Bearers
• 1x Sunscape Familiar
• 1x Suspicious Bookcase
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x The Pride of Hull Clade
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Denial
• 1x Wall of Glare
• 1x Wall of Junk
• 1x Wall of Kelp
• 1x Wall of Nets
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Wall of Runes
• 1x Wall of Shards
• 1x Wall of Tanglecord

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Assault Formation
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Brave the Sands
• 1x High Alert

Land (35)

• 1x Access Tunnel
• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 2x Forest
• 1x Fortified Village
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 3x Island
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 3x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Tranquil Landscape
• 1x Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Expel the Interlopers
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Slaughter the Strong

Commander (1)

Instant (17)

• 1x Akroma's Will
• 1x Bar the Door
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Ghostway
• 1x Long River's Pull
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Negate
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tower Defense
• 1x Voidslime

Artifact (5)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Steward of Elements

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Rune-Sealed Wall
• 1x Weathered Sentinels

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Maybeboard

Creature (49)

• 1x Abzan Beastmaster
• 1x Academy Wall
• 1x Amaranthine Wall
• 2x Angelic Wall
• 1x Belligerent Brontodon
• 1x Carven Caryatid
• 1x Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1x Coral Colony
• 1x Corrupted Shapeshifter
• 1x Crystal Barricade
• 1x Doorkeeper
• 1x Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
• 1x Errant, Street Artist
• 1x Faithbound Judge  ^Flip
• 1x Fecund Greenshell
• 1x Fortified Rampart
• 1x Galvanic Alchemist
• 1x Gatecreeper Vine
• 1x Geist of the Archives
• 1x Glacial Wall
• 1x Gleaming Barrier
• 1x Guardians of Meletis
• 1x Jungle Barrier
• 1x Junktroller
• 1x Overgrown Arch
• 1x Plagon, Lord of the Beach
• 1x Portcullis Vine
• 1x Quicksilver Wall
• 1x Rasaad yn Bashir
• 1x Rigo, Streetwise Mentor
• 1x Saruli Caretaker
• 1x Saryth, the Viper's Fang
• 1x Shield-Wall Sentinel
• 1x Shire Scarecrow
• 1x Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
• 1x Soulsworn Jury
• 1x Thallid Shell-Dweller
• 1x Towering Titan
• 1x Tree of Redemption
• 1x Vesperlark
• 1x Vine Trellis
• 1x Wall of Essence
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wall of Ice
• 1x Wall of Mulch
• 1x Wall of Reverence
• 1x Weathered Sentinels
• 1x Wingmantle Chaplain

Artifact (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Decanter of Endless Water
• 1x Mask of Avacyn
• 1x Mirror Shield
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Robe of Stars

Instant (39)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Akroma's Will
• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Bovine Intervention
• 1x Celestial Flare
• 1x Clash of Wills
• 1x Clever Concealment
• 1x Collective Resistance
• 1x Condemn
• 1x Congregation at Dawn
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Emerge Unscathed
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Essence Scatter
• 1x Flare of Denial
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Hindering Light
• 1x Lae'zel's Acrobatics
• 1x Loran's Escape
• 1x Mizzium Skin
• 1x Naturalize
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Planar Genesis
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Return to Nature
• 1x Sacred Rites
• 1x Sejiri Shelter  ^Flip
• 1x Semester's End
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Stroke of Midnight
• 1x Triton Tactics

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Another Round
• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Ascend from Avernus
• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Expel the Interlopers
• 1x Fell the Mighty
• 1x Last March of the Ents
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Steadfastness
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Tranquility
• 1x Wargate

Land (27)

• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brokers Hideout
• 1x Deserted Beach
• 1x Dreamroot Cascade
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overflowing Basin
• 1x Overgrown Farmland
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Tangled Islet
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Thriving Grove
• 1x Thriving Heath
• 1x Thriving Isle
• 1x Windswept Heath

Enchantment (22)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Court of Ardenvale
• 1x Crab Umbra
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x High Ground
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Primal Rage
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rolling Stones
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Soul Snare
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage
• 1x Stoneskin
• 1x Strength of the Harvest  ^Flip
• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1x Teferi's Tutelage
• 1x The Birth of Meletis
• 1x Treefolk Umbra

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Ajani, the Greathearted
• 1x Huatli, the Sun's Heart
• 1x Teyo, Geometric Tactician
• 1x Teyo, the Shieldmage

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{G}{W}{U} Archidekt Link

Background

my first edh deck! i love bant colors! a lot of card ideas came from "Nobody has the intention of building a Wall" by K4m4r0 and their discussions on the thread! i want to keep the deck in a budget and within $100 ^^

would like to make detailed explanations here soon after i get to test my current deck with other players! im still looking for a local group to play with since i just came back since 2016 where i played a budget Assault Formation deck with the cute walls! so i was happy when i discovered Arcades, the Strategist and the edh format!

Sideboards category is currently used for cards that I just bought but not currently on-hand and the Maybeboards category is currently used as a list of cards that could be placed in the 99. The foiled cards in the Maybeboard is used to mark the cards that I currently have on-hand. Feel free to look through the list in case you see something that would work for your list!

Main Combo

The main combo that's possible for this deck consists of Axebane Guardian, High Alert, and Chulane, Teller of Tales. However, this is not the main goal of the deck, it's just an added bonus. This is still just a beatdown deck. The combo sequence would be as follows:

1. Prerequisites: There should be at least five (5) defenders on the field for Axebane Guardian.
2. Infinite Mana - Let's first generate infinite mana by tapping Axebane Guardian, to produce {W}{U} and three (3) generic colors. Then, we can use High Alert to untap Axebane Guardian for {2}{W}{U} so there would be a surplus of one (1) mana of any color. Repeating this process provides us infinite mana of any colors that we want.
3. Infinite Draws - Now that we have infinite mana, we can use Chulane, Teller of Tales to draw most of our deck (make sure that we don't mill ourselves to death) by tapping him and returning one of the creatures and casting it repeatedly.
4. Win Conditions - Now that we have access to infinite draws, what we're looking for are Crashing Drawbridge to provide us haste (we can also give it haste through Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots to use its activated immediately if it's not on board yet), Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa, Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive or Suspicious Bookcase (which can be untapped with High Alert) to make our walls unblockable, otherwise we can use Primal Rage (swap with Assault Formation in the decklist depending on the pod) to give our walls trample, Assault Formation, Tower Defense, Bar the Door, and Sacred Rites to buff our walls significantly (by discarding all of the drawn cards except the counterspells) or using Akroma's Will, The Pride of Hull Clade as our biggest defender, and just enough defenders on the field to swing at everyone all at the same time for fatal damage. Funnily enough, it is also possible to use the Infinite Mana combo and then casting Nissa, Steward of Elements for a bunch of loyalty counters and then immediately use her ult.

Otherwise, we just play as usual throwing down our cute walls and slapping at everyone with our butts. Make sure that our Arcades, the Strategist is well-protected by saving our interaction and protection spells properly!

Tutor Priorities

For this deck, we currently have three (3) budget tutor options: Drift of Phantasms which can tutor for 3CMC cards, Muddle the Mixture which can tutor for 2CMC, and Shield-Wall Sentinel which can tutor for any defender cards. We can enumerate our key pieces right below:

2CMC (Muddle the Mixture):

1. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive - wincon to make our walls unblockable.
2. Nissa, Steward of Elements - since X is considered 0, this would become a 2CMC card which could be fetched in case we have already fetched Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive mid-game and would be a good value piece to cast creatures for free and smoothen our turns.
3. Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots - yep. give the dragon some shoes.
4. Assault Formation - redundancy and allows our commander to swing for 5!
5. Wall of Shards - a large evasive flyer in case we really need to swing 8 for a win.
6. Overgrown Battlement - a much cheaper Axebane Guardian when Tetsuko is currently unnecessary and we need mana asap.
7. Tower Defense - largest pump spell for 2CMC if we're going for the win!
8. Brave the Sands - if we're fighting against another go-wide deck and they're starting to become wider than us.

3CMC (Drift of Phantasms):

1. Axebane Guardian - which is a main combo piece that can generate a lot (and perhaps infinite) amounts of mana.
2. High Alert - during the scenarios when our commander is being bullied to death by the other players (we hate them). More redundancy and commander damage!
3. Aura Shards, Slaughter the Strong, or Beast Within - for emergency removal and artifact/enchantment hate.
4. Chromatic Lantern - fixes our manabase.
5. Ghostway or Eerie Interlude - if we're digging for other answers and want to draw a lot through ETB effects (and/or preparing for a known boardwipe).

Other Creatures (Eladamri's Call):

1. Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa - another wincon like Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive but works for Chulane, Teller of Tales and The Pride of Hull Clade.
2. Chulane, Teller of Tales - allows us to snowball real fast! Also a key combo piece.
3. The Pride of Hull Clade - giant beater for 15 that draws us cards!

Priority Upgrades

Since I want to build this deck on a tight budget, hopefully it could stay below $100 or at least less than $150, I'm currently prioritizing the following upgrades to the deck once I can find them locally at a decent price:

1. Dovin's Veto - a much better Negate
2. An Offer You Can't Refuse - budget alternative to Swan Song lol.
3. Heroic Intervention a much better and versatile protection spell. But I think I'm good with Akroma's Will that I currently have.

This deck would most likely not have any fetches or shocklands since they are extremely expensive and would significantly increase the budget for this deck.

Possible Combos

Here are the possible card combos that could fit this deck using other cards that are not present in this decklist. Based on my research on various Arcades decks.

1. Infinite Mana: Axebane Guardian + High Alert or Crab Umbra/Freed from the Real/Galvanic Alchemist/Pemmin's Aura with enough Defenders on board. Might prefer Freed from the Real since it can be tutored using Drift of Phantasms
2. Infinite Mill: Infinite Mana Combo + Doorkeeper or Coral Colony
3. Infinite Toughness: Infinite Mana Combo + Assault Formation
4. Infinite Walls: Infinite Mana Combo + Wall of Kelp
5. Alternative Win Condition: Infinite Mana Combo + Approach of the Second Sun + Quicksilver Wall + Arcades, the Strategist

Date added	3 months
Last updated	3 days
Key combos	Axebane Guardian + High Alert
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 1 Rares 33 - 1 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.52
Tokens	0/1 U Creature Plant Wall, Beast 3/3 G
Based on	Nobody has the intention of building a Wall K4m4r0 EDH