Dragon Wall Z (Arcades Wall Tribal)

Commander / EDH* Defender GWU (Bant) Wall

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Wall (26)

• 1x Amaranthine Wall
• 1x Carven Caryatid
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Fortified Rampart
• 1x Gatecreeper Vine
• 1x Jeskai Barricade
• 1x Jungle Barrier
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Orator of Ojutai
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Perimeter Captain
• 1x Plumeveil
• 1x Stalwart Shield-Bearers
• 1x Steel Wall
• 1x Sunscape Familiar
• 1x Traproot Kami
• 1x Tree of Redemption
• 1x Vine Trellis
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Denial
• 1x Wall of Junk
• 1x Wall of Mist
• 1x Wall of Mulch
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Wall of Tanglecord

Removal (6)

• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Jungle Barrier
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Sylvan Reclamation
• 1x Wall of Junk

Arcades Effect (4)

• 1x Assault Formation
• 1x High Alert
• 1x Huatli, the Sun's Heart
• 1x Wakestone Gargoyle

Counters (1)

• 1x Negate

Land (37)

• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Blossoming Sands
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 7x Forest
• 5x Island
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 7x Plains
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Tranquil Cove
• 1x Woodland Stream

Draw (7)

• 1x Carven Caryatid
• 1x Displace
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Mulch
• 1x Wall of Omens

Buff (5)

• 1x Eland Umbra
• 1x Oathsworn Giant
• 1x Sight of the Scalelords
• 1x Slagwurm Armor
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Stax (2)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Marble Titan

Commander (1)

Ramp (13)

• 1x Axebane Guardian
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Gatecreeper Vine
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sunscape Familiar
• 1x Vine Trellis
• 1x Wall of Roots

Recursion (7)

• 1x Colfenor's Urn
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Faith's Reward
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Nature's Spiral
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Seeds of Renewal

Board Wipe (4)

• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Fell the Mighty
• 1x Slaughter the Strong
• 1x Wave of Reckoning

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This deck is a very straightforward budget deck. It is cheap both in card price and mana cost, it plays very well, and it is genuinely the most fun to play deck I have.

Here's the gameplan:

1. Play Arcades, the Strategist.

2. Play as many Walls as possible, triggering Arcades' card draw ability.

3. Attack with Walls to win.

I don't usually play tribal decks with combat wincons, but Arcades, the Strategist is such a good value engine and Walls have such low cmc that this deck is fast and furious.

Arcades, the Strategist and More

Arcades has 2 fantastic and fun abilities in addition to his card draw ability:

1. to allow Walls to attack and

2. to assign combat damage equal to it's toughness.

This allows a 3 cmc card like Wall of Denial from go from useful to brutal.

Because of these abilities (and his obvious card draw value engine), Arcades is a frequent target for counters and removal. Many Walls also provide ramp that will allow you to play Arcades from the command zone a few times, but if he starts getting too expensive, there are other cards that provide the same or similar effects. Cards like:

• High Alert: High Alert provides both attacking ability and combat with toughness.

• Assault Formation: Assault Formation provides combat with toughness, but the attacking ability will cost {G} per Wall you want to attack.

• Huatli, the Sun's Heart: This Huatli only provides combat by toughness.

• Wakestone Gargoyle: Wakestone Gargoyle provides attacking ability to all Walls you control for {1}{W} but not combat by toughness. Most useful along with Assault Formation or Huatli, the Sun's Heart.

Board Wipes and Board Wipe Protection

This deck runs some great options for board wipes that take away the risk of wiping our own board. Using the low attack power of our Walls to our advantage, we can cast board wipes that don't affect our boardstate at all. Cards like:

• Slaughter the Strong

• Fell the Mighty

• Dusk / Dawn

• Wave of Reckoning

In addition to these board wipes that don't affect our board, there are a number of options for protecting from board wipes, or easily recovering from them. Most can also be useful for Commander protection/recursion as well. Cards like:

• Eerie Interlude

• Faith's Reward

• Colfenor's Urn

• Reveillark

• Seeds of Renewal

• Eland Umbra

Notable Cards

• Axebane Guardian and Overgrown Battlement are both Walls that tap for as much mana as the number of Walls you control. Fantastic ramp.

• Sunscape Familiar is a cost reducer for all blue and green spells. It only removes {1} from Arcades' cost, but still very useful.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	8 months
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 12 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 33 - 0 Commons
Cards	99
Avg. CMC	2.89