The Strategist's Defenders

Commander / EDH Defender GWU (Bant)

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Creature (32)

• 1x Angelic Wall
• 1x Axebane Guardian
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Flumph
• 1x Fortified Rampart
• 1x Glorious Protector
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x Jeskai Barricade
• 1x Monastery Flock
• 1x Orator of Ojutai
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Perimeter Captain
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 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 Vine Trellis
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Denial
• 1x Wall of Glare
• 1x Wall of Junk
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Wall of Runes
• 1x Wall of Shards
• 1x Wall of Tanglecord
• 1x Weathered Sentinels

Enchantment (2)

• 1x High Alert
• 1x Vault 75: Middle School

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Land (38)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Forest
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hedge Maze
• 1x Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Island
• 1x Lush Portico
• 1x Meticulous Archive
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 7x Plains
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Restless Anchorage
• 1x Restless Prairie
• 1x Restless Vinestalk
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Spara's Headquarters
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (2)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Bar the Door
• 1x Cosmic Intervention
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Fracturing Gust
• 1x Ghostway
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Loran's Escape
• 1x Mizzium Skin
• 1x Return to Nature
• 1x Shore Up
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Thraben Charm
• 1x Tower Defense

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farewell
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Hour of Revelation
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Retribution of the Meek
• 1x Slaughter the Strong

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Sorcery (2)

• 1x Fade from History
• 1x Raise the Past

Creature (1)

• 1x Plagon, Lord of the Beach

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Assault Formation

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{G}{W}{U} Arcades, the Strategist deck {G}{W}{U}

Anti-Wrath: Glorious Protector, Cosmic Intervention, Ghostway, Eerie Interlude . Casting any of these cards in respone to a Wrath while having Arcades in play and 4 or 5 defenders, our board will emerge unscathed PLUS we'll draw A BUNCH OF CARDS!

The simple winning condition: Attack with a lot of creatures by either having Arcades, the Strategist or High Alert and some of the following: Tower Defense, Bar the Door or the unblockability of Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive / Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa. Simple stuff.

A nice synergy I accidentally found out while playing : If you have Eternal Witness and Ghostway / Eerie Interlude and some defenders out with Arcades, the Strategist, you can always leave 3 mana open and keep blinking them to draw some cards in your opponent's end step. (Eternal Witness keeps returning Ghostway to our hand)

Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 day
Exclude colors	BR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 24 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.76
Tokens	Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Foretell, Map, Morph 2/2 C, Soldier 1/1 W
Folders	Defensive