This listing is for a complete 100 card custom EDH deck featuring Arcades, the Strategist as its Commander. You will also receive 100 complimentary sleeves to protect the cards! Shipping to the US is FREE and will arrive via USPS Priority Mail.

Walls are one of Magic's most iconic creature types, but Arcades takes their glaring weakness and turns it into a huge advantage. Not only do we get to draw extra cards with every creature we cast, they are all super cheap and essentially act as huge aggressive creatures. Some creatures like Overgrown Battlement, Stalwart Shield-Bearers, and Axebane Guardian give us even more advantages for playing a Defender strategy. We also get to turn some otherwise mediocre cards like Tower Defense, Bar the Door, and Solidarity and turn them into cheap mega-Overruns. Your opponents will underestimate your Wall army and find themselves dying out of nowhere to one of these!

We can also take advantage of the fact that we're built around creatures with no power (and that don't care about power). Cards like Meishin, the Mind Cage, Solar Tide, and Slaughter the Strong give us overpowered one-sided board wipes or lockouts. Creatures like Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa and Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive make it very easy to finish the game.

Finally, we can take even further advantage of Arcades' card draw ability, since it triggers every time a creature enters the battlefield, not just when they are cast. Cards like Eerie Interlude and Semester's End play double duty at protecting our team from an opposing board wipe, and drawing us a ton of extra cards when the creatures come back. Teferi's Ageless Insight does a lot of heavy lifting at letting us "go off" as well.

To round out the deck, we've included several 2-mana ramp cards, since casting Arcades on turn 3 makes the gameplan come online so much faster.

The exact 100 card decklist that you will receive is listed below and displayed in the images. All of the cards will be authentic English Magic: the Gathering cards, with a mix of Near Mint and Lightly Played conditions. Please keep in mind that for cards with multiple printings, you may receive different versions than pictured depending on which versions were available in our inventory when we built this deck.

If you want to consider purchasing some additional cards to upgrade the deck, check out our singles inventory! 

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Arcades, the Strategist Decklist:

Arcades, the Strategist

Bar the Door

Arcane Signet

Portcullis Vine

Wall of Denial

Tower Defense

Simic Signet

Wall of Tanglecord

Saruli Caretaker

Resolute Watchdog

Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa

Growth Spiral

Traproot Kami

Steel Wall

Semester's End

Jungle Barrier

Selesnya Signet

Wall of Omens

Mnemonic Wall

Dusk // Dawn

Jeskai Barricade

Solar Tide

Azorius Signet

Angelic Wall

Return to the Ranks

Drift of Phantasms

Gatecreeper Vine

Eerie Interlude

The Birth of Meletis

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

Wall of Runes

Wall of Blossoms

Axebane Guardian

Overgrown Battlement

Hover Barrier

Wall of Ice

Urban Evolution

Slaughter the Strong

Wall of Vines

Suspicious Bookcase

Meishin, the Mind Cage

Aegis of the Heavens

Sylvan Caryatid

Solidarity

Teferi's Ageless Insight

Wall of Roots

Slagwurm Armor

Wall of Hope

Carven Caryatid

Rampant Growth

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Riptide Turtle

Talisman of Curiosity

Vine Trellis

Jaddi Offshoot

Wall of Mulch

Sunscape Familiar

Glacial Wall

Wall of Frost

Crashing Drawbridge

Thriving Isle

Krosan Verge

Graypelt Refuge

Thriving Heath

Thriving Grove

Thornwood Falls

Azorius Guildgate

Tranquil Cove

Command Tower

Azorius Chancery

Irrigated Farmland

Terramorphic Expanse

Yavimaya Coast

Blossoming Sands

Selesnya Guildgate

Simic Growth Chamber

Selesnya Sanctuary

Evolving Wilds

Woodland Stream

Temple of Mystery

Simic Guildgate

Temple of Enlightenment

Sejiri Refuge