Arcades, the Strategist

Arcades, the Strategist Commander Deck

Arcades, the Strategist enables an army of high-toughness defender creatures to attack freely, dealing combat damage based on toughness rather than power, turning walls into threatening offensive beaters. Every defender that enters the battlefield draws a card, creating a self-sustaining engine of card advantage that rapidly floods the board with massive blockers-turned-attackers. The deck wins by overwhelming opponents with wide swings from high-toughness walls, using trample enablers, evasion tools like Rogue's Passage and Access Tunnel, and protection spells to push through lethal damage.

Decklist

Access Tunnel
Amaranthine Wall
Arcane Denial
Arcane Signet
Aura Shards
Axebane Guardian
Azorius Signet
Bant Charm
Cancel
Chromatic Lantern
Clockwork Drawbridge
Command Tower
Commander's Sphere
Corrupted Shapeshifter
Counterspell
Crashing Drawbridge
Crystal Barricade
Cultivate
Decanter of Endless Water
Dusk
Evolving Wilds
Farewell
Fog Bank
8× Forest
Fortified Rampart
Glacial Fortress
Glacial Wall
Growth Spiral
Guardian Project
Heroic Intervention
Hinterland Harbor
8× Island
Jeskai Barricade
Kodama's Reach
Krosan Grip
Last March of the Ents
Meekstone
Naturalize
Overgrown Battlement
Perimeter Captain
Plagon, Lord of the Beach
8× Plains
Primal Rage
Propaganda
Reliquary Tower
Rogue's Passage
Seaside Citadel
Secluded Courtyard
Selesnya Signet
Shield-Wall Sentinel
Simic Signet
Stalwart Shield-Bearers
Steel Wall
Stoneskin
Sunpetal Grove
Sunscape Familiar
Suspicious Bookcase
Swords to Plowshares
Teferi's Ageless Insight
Terramorphic Expanse
The Walls of Ba Sing Se
Thought Vessel
Towering Viewpoint
Tranquil Landscape
Tree of Redemption
Urban Retreat
Vibrant Cityscape
Vine Trellis
Wall of Blossoms
Wall of Denial
Wall of Essence
Wall of Frost
Wall of Glare
Wall of Mulch
Wall of Omens
Wall of Stolen Identity
Wall of Tears
Weathered Sentinels