Arcades' Best Defense

Commander / EDH Defender GWU (Bant) Theme/Gimmick

Romer

Creature (33)

• 1x Axebane Guardian
• 1x Carven Caryatid
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Faithbound Judge  ^Flip
• 1x Jeskai Barricade
• 1x Jungle Barrier
• 1x Orator of Ojutai
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Perimeter Captain
• 1x Riptide Turtle
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Shield-Wall Sentinel
• 1x Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
• 1x Stalwart Shield-Bearers
• 1x Sunscape Familiar
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x The Pride of Hull Clade
• 1x Tree of Redemption
• 1x Vine Trellis
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Denial
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wall of Junk
• 1x Wall of Mulch
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Wall of Stolen Identity
• 1x Weathered Sentinels
• 1x Wingmantle Chaplain
• 1x Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus

Artifact (5)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield
• 1x Sol Ring

Land (32)

• 1x Access Tunnel
• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures P
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deserted Beach
• 1x Dreamroot Cascade
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 2x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Overgrown Farmland
• 3x Plains
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sea of Clouds P
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Spara's Headquarters
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth P

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Assault Formation
• 1x High Alert
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Stoneskin

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Akroma's Will
• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Bar the Door
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Clever Concealment P
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Endless Detour
• 1x Heliod's Intervention
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Sejiri Shelter  ^Flip
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tower Defense
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Expel the Interlopers
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Slaughter the Strong
• 1x The Battle of Bywater
• 1x Three Visits

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Arcades wants us to play Defenders, draw cards and then attack with our Walls, so this deck is packed with Defenders to do just that.

Most Defenders are low-costed, allowing us to get them out quickly, triggering Arcades' card draw ability and drawing into more to fill our board.

Board sweepers focus on removing high-power creatures, leaving my low-power creatures unharmed.

Highlights

• A bunch of low power, high toughness Defenders I can get out quickly, triggering Arcades' card draw ability.
• Board sweepers that remove high-power creatures, leaving my low-power creatures unharmed.
• Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive, Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa and Venser, the Sojourner to keep the team unblockable.
• Assault Formation and High Alert to provide backup if Arcades gets stolen or prohibitively expensive to recast.
• Axebane Guardian, High Alert and 4 other Defenders gives infinite mana.
• Flicker effects like Eerie Interlude and Venser, the Sojourner help protect the team against wrath effects and let me double up on Arcades' ETB trigger.
• Heroic Intervention, Clever Concealment and Akroma's Will to protect Arcades and the team.
• Meekstone to punish opponents' creatures with no impact to my low-power creatures.

Thanks to neinbit's advice and experience with Arcades, over on Defenders, Attack!.

Suggestions and comments welcome.

Top Ranked	Achieved #19 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 33 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.76
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 1/1 W, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Food, Treasure, Wall 0/3 W
Folders	Commander / EDH, EDH, Ideas, Great decks, Maybe, Arcades, the Strategist decks, EDH, Arcades, the Strategist, Commander, commander de3cks