The Strategist's Defenders

Commander / EDH Defender GWU (Bant)

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Creature (33)

• 1x Angelic Wall
• 1x Axebane Guardian
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Flumph
• 1x Fortified Rampart
• 1x Glorious Protector
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x Jeskai Barricade
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Monastery Flock
• 1x Orator of Ojutai
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Perimeter Captain
• 1x Riptide Turtle
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
• 1x Stalwart Shield-Bearers
• 1x Sunscape Familiar
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x Traproot Kami
• 1x Vine Trellis
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Denial
• 1x Wall of Glare
• 1x Wall of Junk
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Wall of Runes
• 1x Wall of Shards
• 1x Wall of Tanglecord

Land (37)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 2x Forest
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 2x Island
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 9x Plains
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Assault Formation
• 1x High Alert

Artifact (2)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Commander (1)

Instant (13)

• 1x Bar the Door
• 1x Cosmic Intervention
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Faith's Reward
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Ghostway
• 1x Gods Willing
• 1x Mizzium Skin
• 1x Return to Nature
• 1x Saw it Coming
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Tower Defense

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Fell the Mighty
• 1x Hour of Revelation
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Ravenform
• 1x Retribution of the Meek
• 1x Return to the Ranks
• 1x Slaughter the Strong
• 1x Wave of Reckoning

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Instant (4)

• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Lae'zel's Acrobatics
• 1x Semester's End
• 1x Solidarity

Creature (2)

• 1x Resolute Watchdog
• 1x Walking Bulwark

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Brave the Sands

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{G}{W}{U} WRATH ME BRO! {G}{W}{U}
In this simple defenders deck, our opponents will definitely want to Wrath the board seeing our cheap defenders (several of them with flying) bash them down relatively early in the game, possibly with unblockability from Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive and Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa, but we have some surprises for them: Faith's Reward, Glorious Protector, Cosmic Intervention, Ghostway and Eerie Interlude . Casting any of these cards while having Arcades in play plus 4 or 5 defenders, our board will emerge unscathed PLUS we'll draw A BUNCH OF CARDS!

Morevover, our own sweepers are pretty much one-sided. Because our creatures either have low CMC or low power, so cards like Austere Command and Dusk / Dawn are great! (just don't have Arcades out when playing Dusk / Dawn, we have Retribution of the Meek for that)

The simple winning condition: Attacking with a lot of creatures by either having Arcades or High Alert (or Assault Formation with lots of {G} ) on the battlefield and some of the following: Tower Defense, Bar the Door or the unblockability as mentioned above. Assault Formation can also be a mini-buff to all of our board if we have nowhere else to spend our {2}{G}.

A nice synergy I accidentally found out while playing : If you have Eternal Witness and Ghostway / Eerie Interlude and some defenders out with Arcades, the Strategist, you can always leave 3 mana open and keep blinking them to draw some cards in your opponent's end step. (Eternal Witness keeps returning Ghostway to our hand)

Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 year
Exclude colors	BR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 24 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.75
Tokens	Bird 1/1 U, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Morph 2/2 C, Soldier 1/1 W
Folders	Defensive