Arcades Storm

Commander / EDH

Slivortal

Creature (38)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Axebane Guardian
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Carven Caryatid
• 1x Cathedral Membrane
• 1x Consulate Skygate
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Gatecreeper Vine
• 1x Gleaming Barrier
• 1x Jeskai Barricade
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Orator of Ojutai
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Quicksilver Wall
• 1x Razorgrass Screen
• 1x Reinforced Bulwark
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Shifting Wall
• 1x Shimmering Barrier
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Steel Wall
• 1x Sunscape Familiar
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Ulvenwald Captive  ^Flip
• 1x Vine Trellis
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Forgotten Pharaohs
• 1x Wall of Junk
• 1x Wall of Mulch
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Wall of Shields
• 1x Wall of Spears
• 1x Wall of Tanglecord
• 1x Wall of Vines
• 1x Wall of Wood

Land (36)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 3x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Instant (1)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor

Commander (1)

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Song of Freyalise
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Artifact (10)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Urza's Incubator
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Collective Unconscious
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Glimpse of Nature
• 1x Shamanic Revelation

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I tried building Arcades Storm, and it feels explosive but fragile. From my limited testing, I think that the walls that cost 1-3 generic mana are pretty powerful with effects like Urza's Incubator, Herald's Horn, and Cloud Key. With Earthcraft or Cryptolith/Song+haste, it really churns through the deck. After the strictly colorless walls, I think the green ones are the next-best. Both the green and blue walls cost less off of Sunscape Familiar (which is helpfully also a wall), but the green ones are easier to chain with Gaea's Cradle and Overgrown Battlement. This is also helpful given that some of the best defenders (Axebane Guardian, Overgrown Battlement, Wall of Roots, Wall of Mulch, Carven Caryatid, Wall of Blossoms, Vine Trellis, Ulvenwald Captive, Sylvan Caryatid) and the best engine cards (Earthcraft, Cryptolith/Song, Concordant, Glimpse, Shamanic, Collective) are green as well. While the deck has some explosive hands that can win on turns 3-5, the deck suffers from a lot of consistency issues and generally needs to stick Arcades for a full turn cycle before it can go off (untapping with Arcades + Vanquisher's Banner is almost a guaranteed win, but that's asking for quite a lot). Between needing to stick a vulnerable creature and potentially 1-2 vulnerable artifacts, I think the deck's quite fragile. But if you're still interested, here you go (manabase is proof-of-concept and Suspicious Bookcase should be in the deck when TappedOut gets it added).

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.47
Tokens	Treasure