[Budget EDH] why are there so many walls

Commander / EDH Aggro Budget Defender GWU (Bant) Tempo Theme/Gimmick Wall

Azeure

Land (35)

• 1x Access Tunnel
• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 2x Forest
• 1x Fortified Village
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 3x Island
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 3x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Tranquil Landscape
• 1x Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Boardwipe (3)

• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Expel the Interlopers
• 1x Slaughter the Strong

Wall (Buff) (3)

• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Stalwart Shield-Bearers
• 1x Suspicious Bookcase

Wall (Vanilla) (9)

• 1x Fortified Rampart
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x Perimeter Captain
• 1x Riptide Turtle
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Wall of Denial
• 1x Wall of Glare
• 1x Wall of Shards
• 1x Wall of Tanglecord

Counterspells (7)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Long River's Pull
• 1x Negate
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Voidslime

Support (5)

• 1x Chulane, Teller of Tales
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Nissa, Steward of Elements
• 1x Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Buff (4)

• 1x Akroma's Will
• 1x Bar the Door
• 1x Brave the Sands
• 1x Tower Defense

Removal (4)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Wall (Utility) (4)

• 1x The Pride of Hull Clade
• 1x Wall of Junk
• 1x Wall of Kelp
• 1x Wall of Nets

Redundancy (2)

• 1x Assault Formation
• 1x High Alert

Commander (1)

Survivability (7)

• 1x Crystal Barricade
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Ghostway
• 1x Jeskai Barricade
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Resolute Watchdog
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Wall (Ramp) (5)

• 1x Axebane Guardian
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Sunscape Familiar
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Wall of Roots

Ramp (4)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Sol Ring

Wall (ETB) (4)

• 1x Orator of Ojutai
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Wall of Runes

Tutor (3)

• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Muddle the Mixture

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Sideboard

Bought (1)

• 1x Weathered Sentinels

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Maybeboard

Defenders (33)

• 1x Academy Wall
• 1x Amaranthine Wall
• 2x Angelic Wall
• 1x Carven Caryatid
• 1x Corrupted Shapeshifter
• 1x Crystal Barricade
• 1x Errant, Street Artist
• 1x Faithbound Judge  ^Flip
• 1x Fortified Rampart
• 1x Gatecreeper Vine
• 1x Geist of the Archives
• 1x Glacial Wall
• 1x Gleaming Barrier
• 1x Guardians of Meletis
• 1x Jungle Barrier
• 1x Junktroller
• 1x Overgrown Arch
• 1x Portcullis Vine
• 1x Rasaad yn Bashir
• 1x Saruli Caretaker
• 1x Shire Scarecrow
• 1x Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
• 1x Thallid Shell-Dweller
• 1x Tree of Redemption
• 1x Vine Trellis
• 1x Wall of Essence
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wall of Ice
• 1x Wall of Mulch
• 1x Wall of Reverence
• 1x Weathered Sentinels
• 1x Wingmantle Chaplain

Creatures (Utility) (7)

• 1x Abzan Beastmaster
• 1x Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1x Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
• 1x Fecund Greenshell
• 1x Plagon, Lord of the Beach
• 1x Rigo, Streetwise Mentor
• 1x Vesperlark

Boardwipe (4)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Expel the Interlopers
• 1x Fell the Mighty

Battlebond Lands (3)

• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Sea of Clouds

Odyssey Filter Lands (3)

• 1x Overflowing Basin
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Sungrass Prairie

Slow Lands (3)

• 1x Deserted Beach
• 1x Dreamroot Cascade
• 1x Overgrown Farmland

MDFC (2)

• 1x Sejiri Shelter  ^Flip
• 1x Strength of the Harvest  ^Flip

Return from Graveyard (2)

• 1x Ascend from Avernus
• 1x Court of Ardenvale

Survivability (14)

• 1x Collective Resistance
• 1x Emerge Unscathed
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Loran's Escape
• 1x Mask of Avacyn
• 1x Mirror Shield
• 1x Mizzium Skin
• 1x Robe of Stars
• 1x Saryth, the Viper's Fang
• 1x Semester's End
• 1x Teyo, the Shieldmage

Counterspells (11)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Clash of Wills
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Essence Scatter
• 1x Flare of Denial
• 1x Hindering Light
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Soulsworn Jury
• 1x Spell Pierce

Buff (8)

• 1x Ajani, the Greathearted
• 1x High Ground
• 1x Primal Rage
• 1x Sacred Rites
• 1x Steadfastness
• 1x Stoneskin
• 1x Treefolk Umbra
• 1x Triton Tactics

Ramp (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Planar Genesis
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x The Birth of Meletis

Flicker (4)

• 1x Another Round
• 1x Clever Concealment
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Lae'zel's Acrobatics

Fetch Lands (3)

• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Windswept Heath

Shock Lands (3)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Temple Garden

Double Draws (2)

• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight

Mana/Ramp (2)

• 1x Decanter of Endless Water
• 1x Three Visits

Removal (13)

• 1x Bovine Intervention
• 1x Celestial Flare
• 1x Condemn
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Naturalize
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Return to Nature
• 1x Soul Snare
• 1x Stroke of Midnight
• 1x Tranquility

Land (12)

• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Brokers Hideout
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Tangled Islet
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Thriving Grove
• 1x Thriving Heath
• 1x Thriving Isle

Combo Pieces (8)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Crab Umbra
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Galvanic Alchemist
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Quicksilver Wall

Stax (5)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Alternative Win Conditions (4)

• 1x Akroma's Will
• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Last March of the Ents
• 1x Towering Titan

Mill (4)

• 1x Coral Colony
• 1x Doorkeeper
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage
• 1x Teferi's Tutelage

Redundancy (3)

• 1x Belligerent Brontodon
• 1x Huatli, the Sun's Heart
• 1x Rolling Stones

Tutor (3)

• 1x Congregation at Dawn
• 1x Shield-Wall Sentinel
• 1x Wargate

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Teyo, Geometric Tactician

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Background

my first edh deck! i love bant colors! a lot of card ideas came from "Nobody has the intention of building a Wall" by K4m4r0 and their discussions on the thread! i want to keep the deck in a budget and within $100 ^^

would like to make detailed explanations here soon after i get to test my current deck with other players! im still looking for a local group to play with since i just came back since 2016 where i played a budget Assault Formation deck with the cute walls! so i was happy when i discovered Arcades, the Strategist and the edh format!

Sideboards category is currently used for cards that I just bought but not currently on-hand and the Maybeboards category is currently used as a list of cards that could be placed in the 99. The foiled cards in the Maybeboard is used to mark the cards that I currently have on-hand. Feel free to look through the list in case you see something that would work for your list!

Main Combo

The main combo that's possible for this deck consists of Axebane Guardian, High Alert, and Chulane, Teller of Tales. However, this is not the main goal of the deck, it's just an added bonus. This is still just a beatdown deck. The combo sequence would be as follows:

1. Prerequisites: There should be at least five (5) defenders on the field for Axebane Guardian.
2. Infinite Mana - Let's first generate infinite mana by tapping Axebane Guardian, to produce {W}{U} and three (3) generic colors. Then, we can use High Alert to untap Axebane Guardian for {2}{W}{U} so there would be a surplus of one (1) mana of any color. Repeating this process provides us infinite mana of any colors that we want.
3. Infinite Draws - Now that we have infinite mana, we can use Chulane, Teller of Tales to draw most of our deck (make sure that we don't mill ourselves to death) by tapping him and returning one of the creatures and casting it repeatedly.
4. Win Conditions - Now that we have access to infinite draws, what we're looking for are Crashing Drawbridge to provide us haste (we can also give it haste through Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots to use its activated immediately if it's not on board yet), Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa, Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive or Suspicious Bookcase (which can be untapped with High Alert) to make our walls unblockable, otherwise we can use Primal Rage (swap with Assault Formation in the decklist depending on the pod) to give our walls trample, Assault Formation, Tower Defense, Bar the Door, and Sacred Rites to buff our walls significantly (by discarding all of the drawn cards except the counterspells) or using Akroma's Will, The Pride of Hull Clade as our biggest defender, and just enough defenders on the field to swing at everyone all at the same time for fatal damage. Funnily enough, it is also possible to use the Infinite Mana combo and then casting Nissa, Steward of Elements for a bunch of loyalty counters and then immediately use her ult.

Otherwise, we just play as usual throwing down our cute walls and slapping at everyone with our butts. Make sure that our Arcades, the Strategist is well-protected by saving our interaction and protection spells properly!

Tutor Priorities

For this deck, we currently have three (3) budget tutor options: Drift of Phantasms which can tutor for 3CMC cards, Muddle the Mixture which can tutor for 2CMC, and Shield-Wall Sentinel which can tutor for any defender cards. We can enumerate our key pieces right below:

2CMC (Muddle the Mixture):

1. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive - wincon to make our walls unblockable.
2. Nissa, Steward of Elements - since X is considered 0, this would become a 2CMC card which could be fetched in case we have already fetched Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive mid-game and would be a good value piece to cast creatures for free and smoothen our turns.
3. Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots - yep. give the dragon some shoes.
4. Assault Formation - redundancy and allows our commander to swing for 5!
5. Wall of Shards - a large evasive flyer in case we really need to swing 8 for a win.
6. Overgrown Battlement - a much cheaper Axebane Guardian when Tetsuko is currently unnecessary and we need mana asap.
7. Tower Defense - largest pump spell for 2CMC if we're going for the win!
8. Brave the Sands - if we're fighting against another go-wide deck and they're starting to become wider than us.

3CMC (Drift of Phantasms):

1. Axebane Guardian - which is a main combo piece that can generate a lot (and perhaps infinite) amounts of mana.
2. High Alert - during the scenarios when our commander is being bullied to death by the other players (we hate them). More redundancy and commander damage!
3. Aura Shards, Slaughter the Strong, or Beast Within - for emergency removal and artifact/enchantment hate.
4. Chromatic Lantern - fixes our manabase.
5. Ghostway or Eerie Interlude - if we're digging for other answers and want to draw a lot through ETB effects (and/or preparing for a known boardwipe).

Other Creatures (Eladamri's Call):

1. Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa - another wincon like Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive but works for Chulane, Teller of Tales and The Pride of Hull Clade.
2. Chulane, Teller of Tales - allows us to snowball real fast! Also a key combo piece.
3. The Pride of Hull Clade - giant beater for 15 that draws us cards!

Priority Upgrades

Since I want to build this deck on a tight budget, hopefully it could stay below $100 or at least less than $150, I'm currently prioritizing the following upgrades to the deck once I can find them locally at a decent price:

1. Dovin's Veto - a much better Negate
2. An Offer You Can't Refuse - budget alternative to Swan Song lol.
3. Heroic Intervention a much better and versatile protection spell. But I think I'm good with Akroma's Will that I currently have.

This deck would most likely not have any fetches or shocklands since they are extremely expensive and would significantly increase the budget for this deck.

Possible Combos

Here are the possible card combos that could fit this deck using other cards that are not present in this decklist. Based on my research on various Arcades decks.

1. Infinite Mana: Axebane Guardian + High Alert or Crab Umbra/Freed from the Real/Galvanic Alchemist/Pemmin's Aura with enough Defenders on board. Might prefer Freed from the Real since it can be tutored using Drift of Phantasms
2. Infinite Mill: Infinite Mana Combo + Doorkeeper or Coral Colony
3. Infinite Toughness: Infinite Mana Combo + Assault Formation
4. Infinite Walls: Infinite Mana Combo + Wall of Kelp
5. Alternative Win Condition: Infinite Mana Combo + Approach of the Second Sun + Quicksilver Wall + Arcades, the Strategist

Date added	3 months
Last updated	2 hours
Key combos	Axebane Guardian + High Alert
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 1 Rares 34 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.51
Tokens	0/1 U Creature Plant Wall, Beast 3/3 G, Treasure
Based on	Nobody has the intention of building a Wall K4m4r0 EDH