Arcades Duple

Arcades, the Strategist Commander Deck

Arcades, the Strategist turns an army of high-toughness defender creatures into an aggressive fighting force that deals combat damage based on toughness rather than power, while drawing a card whenever each new wall enters the battlefield. The deck floods the board with defenders to generate mana through untap effects, card advantage, and token production, then swings in with massive toughness-based attackers supported by redundant enablers like High Alert and Assault Formation. Win conditions include overwhelming combat damage from a wide board of beefy walls, Last March of the Ents to deploy an entire hand of creatures at once, or Towering Titan scaling to enormous size off the collective toughness of the battlefield.

Decklist

• 8× Plains
• 8× Forest
• Arcane Signet
• Crashing Drawbridge
• Command Tower
• Fabled Passage
• Return to Nature
• Arcane Denial
• Farseek
• Lightning Greaves
• Nature's Lore
• Nature's Claim
• Overgrown Battlement
• Path to Exile
• Reliquary Tower
• Sol Ring
• Suspicious Bookcase
• Swords to Plowshares
• Wall of Omens
• Wild Growth
• Heroic Intervention
• Wall of Runes
• Brave the Sands
• Stalwart Shield-Bearers
• Green Sun's Zenith
• Wall of Blossoms
• Bountiful Promenade
• Sea of Clouds
• Canopy Vista
• Enlightened Tutor
• Port Town
• Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination
• High Alert
• Smothering Tithe
• Cyclonic Rift
• Wall of Denial
• Tooth and Nail
• Talisman of Progress
• Genesis Wave
• Glacial Fortress
• Sunpetal Grove
• Vine Trellis
• Wall of Roots
• Utopia Sprawl
• Ensnaring Bridge
• Eladamri's Call
• Sunscape Familiar
• Wave of Reckoning
• Dovin's Veto
• The Wanderer
• Talisman of Curiosity
• Flawless Maneuver
• Exotic Orchard
• Prairie Stream
• Sterling Grove
• Shield Sphere
• Jeskai Barricade
• Sylvan Caryatid
• Axebane Guardian
• Three Visits
• Assault Formation
• Towering Titan
• Slaughter the Strong
• Hinterland Harbor
• Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• Wall of Kelp
• Ghostway
• Talisman of Unity
• Rejuvenating Springs
• Akroma's Will
• Access Tunnel
• Archaeomancer's Map
• Overgrown Farmland
• Deserted Beach
• Unnatural Growth
• Dreamroot Cascade
• Ascend from Avernus
• Walking Bulwark
• Wingmantle Chaplain
• Shield-Wall Sentinel
• Floriferous Vinewall
• Everybody Lives!
• Reverse the Polarity
• The Pride of Hull Clade
• Towering Viewpoint
• Crystal Barricade
• Plagon, Lord of the Beach
• Arbor Adherent
• Rampart Architect
• Destined Confrontation
• The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• Sodden Verdure
• Gathering Place
• Gleaming Bastion
• Last March of the Ents
• Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield