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.

Arcades, the Strategist 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