[2025] Big Booty Bros - Arcades: Primer 1.0

Commander / EDH Aggro Bracket 1 Casual Defender GWU (Bant) Multiplayer Stompy Wall

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Creature (28)

• 1x Axebane Guardian
• 1x Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Crystal Barricade
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Perimeter Captain
• 1x Plagon, Lord of the Beach
• 1x Resolute Watchdog
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Shield-Wall Sentinel
• 1x Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
• 1x Stalwart Shield-Bearers
• 1x Sunscape Familiar
• 1x Suspicious Bookcase
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x The Pride of Hull Clade
• 1x Tree of Redemption
• 1x Walking Bulwark
• 1x Wall of Denial
• 1x Wall of Glare
• 1x Wall of Junk
• 1x Wall of Mulch
• 1x Wall of Nets
• 1x Wall of Runes
• 1x Wall of Shards
• 1x Weathered Sentinels
• 1x Wingmantle Chaplain

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Ascend from Avernus
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Expel the Interlopers
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Nissa's Pilgrimage
• 1x Slaughter the Strong
• 1x Three Visits

Land (34)

• 1x Access Tunnel
• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 5x Forest
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 4x Island
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x Opal Palace
• 4x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Instant (9)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tower Defense

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grappling Hook
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Assault Formation
• 1x Aura ShardsGC
• 1x Brave the Sands
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x High Alert
• 1x Restricted Office / Lecture Hall
• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

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Sideboard

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Propaganda
• 1x True Conviction

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Raise the Past

Artifact (2)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Instant (1)

• 1x Heroic Intervention

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Wall Supremacy!

I attended the magic 2019 prerelease a while back and it was a ton of fun with my friends. Arcades was a card I’d been interested in and quickly built an EDH deck around him afterwards, it was just too funny. The idea of smacking people in the face with 0/4s made me laugh and as I played it, my friends and I built some janky lore around the deck.

So the idea behind the deck is that walls have been subjugated for millenia and are now putting their metaphorical foot down. With Arcades leading the way, our brick and mortar friends are looking to recruit as many allies to their cause as they can find.

Good ol’ honest creature damage.

Deck Lore

These additions cracked me up as I built the deck. They’re the biggest reason I find this deck fun to pilot as I always look forward to drawing them.

• Mystifying Maze, Maze of Ith - What are mazes but a congregation of walls? (These cards are legitimately terrible in this deck, but I keep them for humor’s sake)
• Access Tunnel, Rogue's Passage - Walls are sick and tired of being undermined and taken advantage of. No longer will the underhanded tactics and abuse be tolerated! From here on forth, secret tunnels will only ever be accessed by the walls themselves!
• Grappling Hook - In this deck, the walls grapple you lol
• Tree of Redemption, The Pride of Hull Clade, Charix, the Raging Isle - Probably the funniest wincons in this deck
• Sokrates, Athenian Teacher - The leader of our revolution and founder of wall supremacy theory
• Crashing Drawbridge - The idea of one wall opening up and speed-boosting a bunch of smaller walls made me laugh
• Propaganda - I liked imagining that, before striking a military base. The walls would send messengers Hiroshima-style like the Americans did with propaganda papers dropped from airplanes flying over
• True Conviction - In-line for the theme of insurgency lol
• Glacial Fortress, Hallowed Fountain - The art I chose had towering walls that made me smile
• Man-lands would have been funny, but in my head, lands like Seaside Citadel are just elderly walls that can’t fight. So they provide resources to their friends

Ramp

The least interesting part about this deck lol

• Chulane, Teller of Tales - Can ramp a TON with engines like Guardian Project or Panharmonicon online
• Overgrown Battlement, Axebane Guardian - Mana dorks that scale up with boardstate
• Zendikar Resurgent - Mainly for card draw but the mana + card draw can make late-game plays
• Sol Ring, Azorius Signet, Selesnya Signet, Simic Signet, Arcane Signet, Thought Vessel - The essentials ;)
• Nissa's Pilgrimage, Cultivate, Nature's Lore, Three Visits, Blighted Woodland - Land ramp
• Sunscape Familiar - Help string together late-game plays

Removal/Interaction

• Nature's Claim, Path to Exile, Nature's Claim, Generous Gift, Beast Within, Swords to Plowshares - Targeted Removal
• Aura Shards - Huge over-performer in the deck
• Swan Song, Render Silent
• Restricted Office / Lecture Hall, Expel the Interlopers, Slaughter the Strong, Dusk / Dawn - One-sided board wipes

Protection + Recursion

Having a bunch of big walls is kinda already enough protection but I left some extra just in case :)

• Resolute Watchdog, - A good boi <3
• Sokrates, Athenian Teacher - Can really hose down a voltron commander and other big attackers
• Crystal Barricade - Neuters red decks
• Eerie Interlude - Board wipe protection
• Ascend from Avernus, Dusk / Dawn - Graveyard recursion. I like to imagine our walls just reassembling themselves lol
• Restricted Office / Lecture Hall - Mana-intensive hexproof

Card Advantage + Tutors

• Bident of Thassa - Love this card, can force opponents’ creatures to fight our big booty bros
• Chulane, Teller of Tales, Arcades, the Strategist, Guardian Project, Teferi's Ageless Insight, Zendikar Resurgent, Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield - Draw engines
• Drift of Phantasms, Shield-Wall Sentinel - Tutors
• Plagon, Lord of the Beach - Burst Draw
• Sokrates, Athenian Teacher - Doubles as protection, can be used as a political piece
• The Pride of Hull Clade - Very cool draw spell, synergizes well with our unblockable theme
• Wall of Mulch - Doubles as a sac outlet

Deck Enablers + Value Pieces:

• Suspicious Bookcase, Rogue's Passage, Access Tunnel, Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive - Unblockable
• Alchemist's Refuge
• Stalwart Shield-Bearers, Tower Defense - Big Booty Supremacy
• Crashing Drawbridge, Concordant Crossroads - Haste enablers
• Plagon, Lord of the Beach, Walking Bulwark, High Alert, Assault Formation, The Pride of Hull Clade - Backup commanders
• Wingmantle Chaplain, Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield - Token generators
• Meekstone - Very powerful in this deck
• Tree of Redemption, Charix, the Raging Isle, The Pride of Hull Clade - Need finessing but are funny after one-shotting another player
• Brave the Sands - On the cutting block but keeps us healthy after a big swing

Thanks for checking out my primer! I hope you enjoy the deck as much as I did brewing it:)

Date added	9 months
Last updated	8 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 4 Rares 27 - 2 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.85
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 1/1 W, Bird 2/2 U, Elephant 3/3 G, Wall 0/3 W