251
4/27/2024
Arcades, the impenetrable wall
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
Legal
Est deck cost: $352.76
Salt sum: 45.95
Playgroup dot gg logoPower level:N/A
No deck tags
251
4/27/2024
Compare
Deck filters

Choose your preferred layout. You can change this at any time using the Deck filters / View as options above.

Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $29.99
Arcades, the Strategist

Flying, vigilance Whenever a creature you control with defender enters, draw a card. Each creature you control with defender assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature
Arcades, the Strategist (m19) 212

Commander

(CTRL to add secondary)

Creature

Quantity: 4Price: $7.83
Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) Creatures your opponents control without flying or reach can't block creatures with power 2 or less. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa (pz2) 54
Sun Titan

Vigilance Whenever Sun Titan enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Sun Titan (c20) 101
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (dom) 69
Towering Titan

Towering Titan enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total toughness of other creatures you control. Sacrifice a creature with defender: All creatures gain trample until end of turn.

Creature
Towering Titan (jmp) 31

Creature

(CTRL to add secondary)

Land

Quantity: 36Price: $31.42
Azorius Chancery

Azorius Chancery enters tapped. When Azorius Chancery enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Azorius Chancery (c20) 256
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (c20) 264
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (iko) 247
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (c20) 273
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (und) 95
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (iko) 265
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (iko) 260
Sea of Clouds

Sea of Clouds enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Sea of Clouds (zne) 16
Seaside Citadel

Seaside Citadel enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Land
Seaside Citadel (c18) 277
Selesnya Sanctuary

Selesnya Sanctuary enters tapped. When Selesnya Sanctuary enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}{W}.

Land
Selesnya Sanctuary (c20) 308
Simic Growth Chamber

Simic Growth Chamber enters tapped. When Simic Growth Chamber enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (c20) 311
Temple of Enlightenment

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Enlightenment (thb) 246
Temple of Mystery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (m21) 389
Temple of Plenty

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Temple of Plenty (pthb) 248p
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (c20) 319

Land

(CTRL to add secondary)

buff

Quantity: 8Price: $36.42
Always Watching

Nontoken creatures you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance.

Enchantment
Always Watching (gnt) 7
Brave the Sands

Creatures you control have vigilance. Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.

Enchantment
Brave the Sands (cm2) 19
Darksteel Plate

Indestructible Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {2}

Artifact
Darksteel Plate (ddu) 52
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (2xm) 267
Stalwart Shield-Bearers

Defender Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.

Creature
Stalwart Shield-Bearers (roe) 46
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (c20) 254
Tower Defense

Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.

Instant
Tower Defense (rna) 147
Trophy Mage

When Trophy Mage enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 3, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Trophy Mage (ddu) 42

buff

(CTRL to add secondary)

Artifact

Quantity: 3Price: $36.97
Ensnaring Bridge

Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack.

Artifact
Ensnaring Bridge (2xm) 253
Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Artifact
Meekstone (6ed) 299
Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Artifact
Panharmonicon (kld) 226

Artifact

(CTRL to add secondary)

Defender

Quantity: 14Price: $33.50
Fortified Rampart

Defender

Creature
Fortified Rampart (bfz) 27
Geist of the Archives

Defender At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Geist of the Archives (emn) 62
Hornet Nest

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever Hornet Nest is dealt damage, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Hornet Nest (plst) M15-177
Plumeveil

Flash Defender, flying

Creature
Plumeveil (uma) 218
Shield Sphere

Defender Whenever Shield Sphere blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Shield Sphere (all) 129
Tree of Redemption

Defender {T}: Exchange your life total with Tree of Redemption's toughness.

Creature
Tree of Redemption (a25) 191
Wall of Denial

Defender, flying Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Wall of Denial (mm3) 201
Wall of Frost

Defender Whenever Wall of Frost blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Wall of Frost (plst) MM3-56
Wall of Junk

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When Wall of Junk blocks, return it to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Creature Artifact
Wall of Junk (usg) 315
Wall of Nets

Defender (This creature can't attack.) At end of combat, exile all creatures blocked by Wall of Nets. When Wall of Nets leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with Wall of Nets to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Creature
Wall of Nets (exo) 24
Wall of Shards

Defender, flying Cumulative upkeep—An opponent gains 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Creature
Wall of Shards (csp) 23
Wall of Stolen Identity

You may have Wall of Stolen Identity enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Wall in addition to its other types and has defender. When you do, tap the copied creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control Wall of Stolen Identity.

Creature
Wall of Stolen Identity (c19) 13
Wall of Tanglecord

Defender {G}: Wall of Tanglecord gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Creature Artifact
Wall of Tanglecord (som) 222
Wall of Tears

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever Wall of Tears blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.

Creature
Wall of Tears (sth) 50

Defender

(CTRL to add secondary)

Ramp

Quantity: 9Price: $30.23
Axebane Guardian

Defender {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

Creature
Axebane Guardian (rtr) 115
Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (dmr) 151
Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (cm2) 189
Gatecreeper Vine

Defender When Gatecreeper Vine enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Gatecreeper Vine (ddm) 48
Karametra, God of Harvests

Indestructible As long as your devotion to green and white is less than seven, Karametra isn't a creature. Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Enchantment
Karametra, God of Harvests (c20) 218
Noble Hierarch

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Creature
Noble Hierarch (2xm) 177
Overgrown Battlement

Defender {T}: Add {G} for each creature you control with defender.

Creature
Overgrown Battlement (jmp) 417
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (c20) 252
The Birth of Meletis

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. II — Create a 0/4 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender. III — You gain 2 life.

Enchantment
The Birth of Meletis (thb) 5

Ramp

(CTRL to add secondary)

card draw

Quantity: 3Price: $8.37
Chulane, Teller of Tales

Vigilance Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. {3}, {T}: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Chulane, Teller of Tales (eld) 326
Flumph

Defender, flying Whenever Flumph is dealt damage, you and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature
Flumph (afr) 15
Wall of Omens

Defender When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Omens (plst) EMA-34

card draw

(CTRL to add secondary)

Board wipe

Quantity: 4Price: $55.76
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 47
Slash the Ranks

Destroy all creatures and planeswalkers except for commanders.

Sorcery
Slash the Ranks (cmr) 47
Slaughter the Strong

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

Sorcery
Slaughter the Strong (rix) 22
Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Sorcery
Wave of Reckoning (c16) 79

Board wipe

(CTRL to add secondary)

Enchantment

Quantity: 2Price: $7.28
Primal Rage

Creatures you control have trample. (A creature with trample can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Enchantment
Primal Rage (10e) 286
Wild Pair

Whenever a creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, you may search your library for a creature card with the same total power and toughness, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Wild Pair (cn2) 196

Enchantment

(CTRL to add secondary)

Removel

Quantity: 7Price: $18.99
Aura Shards

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment
Aura Shards (plst) CMD-182
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (c20) 168
Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (ths) 46
Dismantling Wave

For each opponent, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment that player controls. Cycling {6}{W}{W} ({6}{W}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Dismantling Wave, destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Sorcery
Dismantling Wave (c20) 25
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (2xm) 25
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (plst) C19-92
Return to Nature

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard.

Instant
Return to Nature (m21) 200

Removel

(CTRL to add secondary)

life gain

Quantity: 3Price: $5.33
Perimeter Captain

Defender Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.

Creature
Perimeter Captain (wwk) 16
Trostani, Selesnya's Voice

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. {1}{G}{W}, {T}: Populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Creature
Trostani, Selesnya's Voice (c19) 204
Wall of Hope

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever Wall of Hope is dealt damage, you gain that much life.

Creature
Wall of Hope (lgn) 24

life gain

(CTRL to add secondary)

Counter

Quantity: 1Price: $2.99
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (plst) A25-50

Counter

(CTRL to add secondary)

Instant

Quantity: 1Price: $13.99
Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn. • Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Instant
Akroma's Will (cmr) 3

Instant

(CTRL to add secondary)

Sorcery

Quantity: 2Price: $1.99
Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Fabricate (plst) M10-52
Return to the Ranks

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Return X target creature cards with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Return to the Ranks (m15) 29

Sorcery

(CTRL to add secondary)

win con

Quantity: 2Price: $2.48
Assault Formation

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. {G}: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. {2}{G}: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Assault Formation (jmp) 378
High Alert

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Creatures you control can attack as though they didn't have defender. {2}{W}{U}: Untap target creature.

Enchantment
High Alert (rna) 182

win con

(CTRL to add secondary)

Sideboard

Quantity: 8Price: $29.22
Ajani, the Greathearted

Creatures you control have vigilance. +1: You gain 3 life. −2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and a loyalty counter on each other planeswalker you control.

Planeswalker
Ajani, the Greathearted (war) 184
Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Enchantment
Angelic Chorus (bbd) 87
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (afc) 197
Colfenor's Urn

Whenever a creature with toughness 4 or greater is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may exile it. At the beginning of the end step, if three or more cards have been exiled with Colfenor's Urn, sacrifice it. If you do, return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Artifact
Colfenor's Urn (lrw) 254
Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Eerie Interlude (soi) 16
Marble Titan

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Creature
Marble Titan (9ed) 26
Sunscape Familiar

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Green spells and blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Sunscape Familiar (pls) 17
Thalia, Heretic Cathar

First strike Creatures and nonbasic lands your opponents control enter tapped.

Creature
Thalia, Heretic Cathar (emn) 46

Sideboard

(CTRL to add secondary)

Maybeboard

Quantity: 16Price: $17.87
Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Creature
Beast Whisperer (c20) 167
Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix, the Raging Isle cost {2} more to cast. {3}: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Creature
Charix, the Raging Isle (znr) 325
Colossus of Akros

Defender, indestructible {10}: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) As long as Colossus of Akros is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature Artifact
Colossus of Akros (ths) 214
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (m21) 177
Drift of Phantasms

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Drift of Phantasms (rav) 46
Fell the Mighty

Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.

Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (c17) 60
Mnemonic Wall

Defender When Mnemonic Wall enters, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Mnemonic Wall (plst) IMA-67
Neurok Stealthsuit

Equipped creature has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {U}{U}: Attach Neurok Stealthsuit to target creature you control. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Neurok Stealthsuit (5dn) 140
Reveillark

Flying When Reveillark leaves the battlefield, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Evoke {5}{W} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Reveillark (c20) 97
Selesnya Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

Artifact
Selesnya Signet (gk1) 123
Sight of the Scalelords

At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with toughness 4 or greater get +2/+2 and gain vigilance until end of turn.

Enchantment
Sight of the Scalelords (dtk) 207
Simic Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Artifact
Simic Signet (gk2) 130
Thallid Shell-Dweller

Defender At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Thallid Shell-Dweller. Remove three spore counters from Thallid Shell-Dweller: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Creature
Thallid Shell-Dweller (mma) 169
Wall of Blossoms

Defender When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Blossoms (jmp) 442
Wall of Glare

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Wall of Glare can block any number of creatures.

Creature
Wall of Glare (uds) 25
Wall of Ice

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature
Wall of Ice (4bb) 283

Maybeboard

(CTRL to add secondary)

Deck Info

Deck stats

37 pips - 28 cards
22 mana - 22 cards
21 pips - 16 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
23 pips - 20 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 2 cards
CategoriesQtyOdds
Click charts to focus on cards

Deck Tokens & Extras (5)

Description

No description yet.

Leave a comment

{"ops":[]}
AutoNew CategoryMaybeboardSideboard