This is a janky Bant defender tribal deck that I remade from an older Simic version I had back in 2016, back before Arcades, the Strategist, High Alert, and Walking Bulwark were printed, when Assault Formation was really the only good 'defenders can attack' option there was.
The deck is filled with lots of cheap defender creatures with high toughness and great synergy that allow you to quickly fill the board in the early game, and set up a good defense to give you time to find one of the 9 'defenders can attack' cards. To help find one of those 9 aforementioned cards with greater consistency, there’s 4x Wall of Blossoms, 4x Wall of Omens, 4x Incubation / Incongruity, and 2x Thassa's Intervention, all which let you dig deeper into the deck.
This deck has some pretty good combo synergy. Arcades, the Strategist + Wall of Blossoms
and Arcades, the Strategist + Wall of Omens
is an amazing 2 for 1 draw combo that usually ends up chaining into at least 1 more defender to keep the string of casting and drawing more defenders going. Stalwart Shield-Bearers pairs well with every other defender because it's essentially a 2 CMC +2/+2 Anthem. The best combo however is an infinite mana combo that you can achieve by having Axebane Guardian + High Alert
+ 4 or more other defender creatures on the battlefield, and the infinite mana combo enables some very broken plays in this deck. If you also have Assault Formation out then you can use all of that infinite mana to give your creatures infinite toughness (infinite power in this case), and if you also have Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive out then you have infinite, un-blockable damage. Secret Door is a great mana sink for all of that infinite mana, allowing you to draw as many cards as you want. Thassa's Intervention is another great outlet for infinite mana, acting as a protection spell if needed or allowing you to look through the whole deck and tutor out any 2 cards you want (usually best to grab Assault Formation + Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
to end the game on the spot).
This is just supposed to be a casual jank deck, so I'm not looking to make it competitive viable. However, any and all suggestions or recommendations are welcome. Thanks in advance!
(Spoiler cards to try: Chelonian Tackle)
