Combo-Cades: The Wallmaster | EDH

Commander / EDH GWU (Bant)

DeltaMoth

Creature (35)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Axebane Guardian
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Brago, King Eternal
• 1x Carven Caryatid
• 1x Consecrated SphinxGC
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Jeskai Barricade
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Orator of Ojutai
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Portcullis Vine
• 1x Profaner of the Dead
• 1x Quicksilver Wall
• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Shrieking Drake
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Sunscape Familiar
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x Ulvenwald Captive  ^Flip
• 1x Vine Trellis
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Kelp
• 1x Wall of Lost Thoughts
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Wall of Stolen Identity

Land (32)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 6x Forest
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 5x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 4x Plains
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Aura ShardsGC
• 1x High Alert
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC
• 1x Sylvan Library MP

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Wargate

Commander (1)

Instant (13)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened TutorGC
• 1x Fierce GuardianshipGC
• 1x Ghostway
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical TutorGC
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Shared Summons
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Artifact (6)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sol Ring

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Maybeboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Doorkeeper
• 1x Noble Hierarch

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight

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The watchful eye of Arcades looms over his legions of bricks and mortar.

This is my Combo build of Arcades, the Strategist - based on the build by Pufflex, ChocoDude and Benjameenbear in the MTGNexus Forums.

Arcades is a pretty straightforward commander, lacking the symmetry of Doran, the Siege Tower and replacing it with a nice cantrip effect and a one-sided beatdown option in the right build. We can use this! By jamming the deck full of defenders the cantrip becomes immensely powerful at the same time as our boardstate growing and being extremely defensive. This basically covers creature based attacking all by itself, and our opponents will think twice before smashing into our walls. On the other hand, with Arcades in play our walls become giant beatsticks of which to whack our opponents with! This is fantastic as our highly defensive board state can swap to a highly aggressive one quickly, meaning we commonly have the upperhand when it comes to lifepoint-based politics.

However, this build is far more than any commonplace "wall turn sideways Tower Defense you go to 16" build, there is a heavy combo strategy utilising infinite mana and the many flicker effects of Bant colours in order to draw out your entire deck using Arcades or Wall of Blossoms or any other cantrip walls and win with a game ending Shaman of Forgotten Ways or flickering Wall of Lost Thoughts until your opponents are all shredded away.

For example, the deck runs the very powerful combo of Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal in conjunction with an utterly massive amount of mana dorks, as well as Spellseeker and Muddle the Mixture to find the pieces.

Another combo is the fated Aluren + Cloudstone Curio amalgam, allowing you to flicker your creatures at instant speed and finish off games immediately once the pieces are assembled. We run a Wargate, Drift of Phantasms and Enlightened TutorGC to grab these choice pieces from our giant pile given you didn't draw them already from the massive card advantage Arcades gives you. Drift of Phantasms is even a defender by itself, which is just straight cash money to me.

Yet another combo is easily fueled by our most powerful mana dork, Axebane Guardian. Able to create absolutely ridiculous amounts of mana extremely quickly for an early rush of walls and then blow the game out by using a High Alert to untap itself and cantrip off infinite Quicksilver Wall bouncing or Wall of Kelp tapping.

What I'm trying to get at here is that there's a lot of ways to go off, the build works well as I own it in paper and it comes out on top commonly. Arcades is also quite sneaky. People expect you to be the little normal wall tribal guy playing casually, so they absolutely are not prepared for you dropping an Intruder Alarm and making infinite W and G mana using a Faeburrow Elder and a Shrieking Drake targeting itself over and over on turn 4.

There is more that this deck can offer, and I'd like to see what everyone thinks, as well as how it can be improved! Help requested to increase consistency and combo potential!

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH GWU (Bant) 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.62
Tokens	0/1 U Creature Plant Wall, Beast 3/3 G
Folders	Copys, aaa, Maybe, Other People's fun looking EDH decks