If These Walls Could Walk

Commander / EDH Bracket 3 Budget Card Draw Matters Casual Control Defender GU (Simic) Lab Man/Thoracle Toughness Matters Unblockable Wall

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Land (38)

• 1x Access Tunnel
• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Cactus Preserve
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Escape Tunnel
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 2x Forest
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 3x Island
• 1x Lush Oasis
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Overflowing Basin
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Restless Vinestalk
• 1x Rimewood Falls
• 1x Rivendell
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Shire Terrace
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Sink into Stupor  ^Flip
• 1x Tangled Islet
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x The Surgical Bay
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Thriving Grove
• 1x Thriving Isle
• 1x Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1x Willowrush Verge
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Removal (10)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Fierce GuardianshipGC
• 1x Flood of Tears
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Kellan, Inquisitive Prodigy
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Scrapshooter
• 1x Sink into Stupor  ^Flip
• 1x Utter Insignificance

Toughness (26)

• 1x Aegis Turtle
• 1x Axebane Guardian
• 1x Bedrock Tortoise
• 1x Body of Knowledge
• 1x Cactus Preserve
• 1x Caelorna, Coral Tyrant
• 1x Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1x Clammy Prowler
• 1x Corrupted Shapeshifter
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Excavated Wall
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Pit Automaton
• 1x Scrapshooter
• 1x Slagwurm Armor
• 1x Suspicious Bookcase
• 1x Towering Titan
• 1x Vine Trellis
• 1x Vnwxt, Verbose Host
• 1x Walking Bulwark
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Junk
• 1x Wall of Runes
• 1x Wall of Tanglecord

Card Draw (10)

• 1x Body of Knowledge
• 1x Brainsurge
• 1x Kellan, Inquisitive Prodigy
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rush of Knowledge
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1x The Key to the Vault
• 1x Vnwxt, Verbose Host
• 1x Wall of Blossoms

Utility and Protection (9)

• 1x Bedrock Tortoise
• 1x Biomancer's Familiar
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Slagwurm Armor
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Training Grounds
• 1x Treefolk Umbra
• 1x Unnatural Growth

Commander (1)

Evasion (13)

• 1x Access Tunnel
• 1x Artful Dodge
• 1x Clammy Prowler
• 1x Escape Tunnel
• 1x Gossip's Talent
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x Inherited Envelope
• 1x Prowler's Helm
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Suspicious Bookcase
• 1x Sword Coast Sailor
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x Trailblazer's Boots

Ramp (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Axebane Guardian
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Decanter of Endless Water
• 1x Inherited Envelope
• 1x Kellan, Inquisitive Prodigy
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Pit Automaton
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Vine Trellis

Win Conditions (10)

• 1x Assault Formation
• 1x Bedrock Tortoise
• 1x Body of Knowledge
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Ominous Seas
• 1x Ormos, Archive Keeper
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Towering Titan
• 1x Treefolk Umbra
• 1x Walking Bulwark

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Maybeboard

Toughness (9)

• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Embodiment of Spring
• 1x Living Armor
• 1x Living Lectern
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Sage of the Unknowable
• 1x Steel Wall
• 1x Stormsurge Kraken
• 1x Tromokratis

Utility and Protection (3)

• 1x Ivory Tower
• 1x Shore Up
• 1x Venser's Journal

Win Conditions (5)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Living Conundrum
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage
• 1x Thassa's OracleGC
• 1x Wizard Class

Evasion (4)

• 1x Neurok Hoversail
• 1x Slip Through Space
• 1x Taunting Elf
• 1x Tromokratis

Removal (2)

• 1x River's Rebuke
• 1x Unstable Obelisk

Card Draw (4)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Loyal Drake
• 1x Stormsurge Kraken
• 1x Wizard Class

Ramp (4)

• 1x Embodiment of Spring
• 1x Omen Hawker
• 1x Sage of the Unknowable
• 1x Unstable Obelisk

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The Best Offense is a Good Defense

I loved The Pride of Hull Clade as soon as I saw it previewed--the abilities, the stats, the picture, it's just so weird. When I opened one in a prize booster after the MKM prerelease, I knew I had to make this deck.

The basic idea is:

1. Play some high-toughness creatures to make The Pride of Hull Clade cheap to cast.
2. Use The Pride's ability + evasion to draw a ton of cards.
3. Sort through the dozens of cards in your hand and find a win condition.

This deck has a lot of creatures with high toughness and low power, which tend to be very cheap, and essentially function as ramp for the commander. It's not at all unreasonable to have The Pride out by turn three, maybe even turn two if you're lucky. Once it's there, you can start using its ability on attackers and begin drawing a truly obscene number of cards.

The Pride itself is usually the best target for its ability (drawing you fifteen cards if it connects), though not always. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive makes many of the other creatures in the deck unblockable, and it's also possible to attack with multiple non-Defender creatures and use the ability after blockers are declared, so you can target whatever got through. With enough mana (and/or the reduction from Biomancer's Familiar and Training Grounds, you can even use it multiple times per turn to draw even more.

Finding a win condition isn't that hard once you're drawing most of your deck. Assault Formation, Walking Bulwark, etc. let you go for a straightforward win through attacking with your suddenly-powerful creatures, including via commander damage. Psychosis Crawler turns card draw directly into damage, and you can always aim to just draw everything and win with Laboratory Maniac or (with a little more work) Ormos, Archive Keeper.

Improvements

I've had some decent success with this deck so far, but it's still in the early stages, and there are some changes I hope to make as I find the cards for it. I want to get a bit more strong evasion, notably a Prowler's Helm. Ominous Seas should be good here, and if Laboratory Maniac works out well (and doesn't make me too many enemies), there's always Thassa's OracleGC and Jace, Wielder of Mysteries. Sphinx's Tutelage might be another way to turn card draw into a win, though I worry that it won't be enough if I draw it too late. Other than that, it's really about shoring up the fundamentals--Simic isn't great at removal, for example, so I'll have to see if that becomes a problem as I go.

Date added	10 months
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 32 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.86
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Clue, Kraken 8/8 U, On an Adventure, Start Your Engines!, The Ring, The Ring Tempts You
Folders	My Commander Decks, EDH Decks