Arcades, the fast wincons

Commander / EDH Aggro Combo GWU (Bant)

benbarker607

Creature (36)

• 1x Axebane Guardian
• 1x Carven Caryatid
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Doorkeeper
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Gleaming Barrier
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x Jeskai Barricade
• 1x Jungle Barrier
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Orator of Ojutai
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Perimeter Captain
• 1x Resolute Watchdog
• 1x Riptide Turtle
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Soulsworn Jury
• 1x Stalwart Shield-Bearers
• 1x Steel Wall
• 1x Sunscape Familiar
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x Tree of Redemption
• 1x Wakestone Gargoyle
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Denial
• 1x Wall of Hope
• 1x Wall of Junk
• 1x Wall of Kelp
• 1x Wall of Mulch
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Wall of Reverence
• 1x Wall of Shards
• 1x Wall of Tanglecord

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Ziggurat
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 5x Forest
• 1x Gateway Plaza
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 4x Island
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 5x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Windswept Heath

Instant (6)

• 1x Bant Charm
• 1x Blinding Fog
• 1x Displace
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Thunderheads
• 1x Tower Defense

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Teyo, the Shieldmage

Commander (1)

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Angelic Shield
• 1x Assault Formation
• 1x Celestial Dawn
• 1x Fortified Area
• 1x Gauntlets of Light
• 1x Ground Seal
• 1x High Alert
• 1x Hold the Gates
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Spidersilk Armor

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Circuitous Route
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Fell the Mighty
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Return to the Ranks
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Slaughter the Strong
• 1x Wave of Reckoning

Artifact (3)

• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Umbral Mantle

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This deck will try to win by aggro (or enough unblockable dmg with tetsuko) or combo in two different ways once it has infinite mana with Arcades on the battlefield;

Axebane Guardian + Umbral Mantle / pemmin's aura / gauntlets of light / High Alert Overgrown Battlement + Umbral Mantle / pemmin's aura / gauntlets of light / High Alert (celestial dawn generally helps with mana fixing, but infinite green can do the trick too)

You can draw out the entire deck and either make everything unblockable with tetsuko and give it haste with crashing drawbridge for the kill or use doorkeeper to activate his ability, untap infinite times and mill the opponents to death.

There are two ways to draw out the entire deck/ kill by aggro (without counting on luck to chain enough draw into creatures, which can easily happen but is less reliable);

• Using Ghostly Flicker / Displace on Mnemonic Wall to cast flicker on the wall and keep returning the flicker spell an infinite number of times until the wincons are in hand and the deck is drawn to a necessary point.

• Casting Thunderheads paying its replicate cost X amount of times to draw the necessary cards for the combo in case infinite flying 3/3 heads just don´t cut it

Milling the entire deck can be an alternate wincon, so on the maybe board we could run thassa´s oracle + Jace, Wielder of Mysteries instead of hold the gates and spidersilk armor. I personally decided I didn't want the deck to be absolutely filled with combo alternate wincons, but it's definetely an option I've had fun with as well from time to time depending on the playgroup.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 18 - 0 Rares 41 - 0 Uncommons 25 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.71
Tokens	0/1 U Creature Plant Wall, Treasure, Wall 0/3 W, Weird 3/3 U