Hey Moth,

I have been super busy with work lately but the deck new list looks like a definite upgrade. Good to see others are enjoying Arcades as much as I have in the past. I was thinking of adding scroll rack into the deck and cutting Sylvan Library. Just wondered what you thoughts were on this.

You could but it would be super greedy IMO. Granted people wouldn't see it coming at all. I added your combos and explainations in my second "community input" post. Thanks again for being a contributing part of the arcades community

If you guys want I can roll those into the Primer as contributed by the arcades community.

Those are some nice combos moth. Sorry for the late reply moth, I found that finale of devastation was mana drain fodder and caused me to tap down my a decent amount of lands in my deck. As you can tell my deck is more control heavy so I value the Instant speed chord over the finale.

He is definately going to be a great Bant commander but I don't think it would fit the arcades theme. Best case it could be a win more card, assuming it isn't wiped out right away or stolen. I think if you were going to run him it would be as the commander of a different deck. That and you would pro...

Crashing Drawbridge is a great card to get your activate the new defenders or dorks when they come in. I updated my list a few days ago adding the Bridge and cutting the tangle cord wall. I like Winds of Abandon as it exiles and doesn't destroy. In my play group there is a lot of GY recursion and in...

Cards I still want to try in the deck Faeburrow Elder Return to the Ranks. Also I think we might have a place for some of the new Castle cards.

That card does seem decent, I mean you when X=4 you could pull out all of the most relevant cards from the Gy right to the BF. The only issue with making them 4/4's is that they are targetable as creatures. If you had the correct pieces in hand you could just return the combo to the board and go off...

Looks like your wish has been answered. They are printing a bloom tender like creature in the new set it costs 1 CMC more, but it has the same effect. Faeburrow Elder, I might try to find this card a home as well.

My bad I forgot the CMC of the Steel Wall was 1. The only reason why I don't like the artifact walls is that they don't work with curio. Everything being equal the faster that your mana base becomes streamlined the better the deck should perform.

That is a fair comment, in a perfect world I would run all the dual lands and a Gaea's Cradle . Instead of them I run the check lands and Growing Rites of Itlimoc which is the poor mans cradle. I would cut a signet for Incubation Druid as it works with the alarm and it can be grown and tap for 3 man...

One of the obvious pieces that I think your missing is Winds of Abandon its a white Cyc rift that exiles creatures instead of bounce them. Granted depending on who you are playing is important especially if they have a lot of basics. I also found that I would run into some "Life" issues wh...

@benjameenbear I had tried Freed from the Real in the past but I found the card didn't really work out. I also found that it called attention to the creature you were casting it on so it was insta removed. Also most of your flicker spells / abilities Ghostly Flicker / Eerie Interlude cause your the ...

I feel like I need to add Tetsuko back into the deck, if going the hastey defender route proves decent.

Any suggestion on which cards you would cut to include the Grove and the crossroads? Once I procure these cards, I will slot them in and give them a try. Trying to figure out cuts is alays hard.

The primer quite prominently mentions Paradox Engine , which is unfortunate. Agreed. I need to kill all of the references to the forbidden card lol. That being said I have found in the past that Hall of the Bandit Lord was a good card, but other than Axebane I haven't found a card that I would want...

NVM I read it wrong, I forgot you needed a copy to populate lol

The wall of stolen identity definately looks pretty good.

Sevinne's Reclamation Looks pretty good, its Sun Titan for 3CMC. I guess the question is do you think Eternal Witness / Sun Titan / Reveillark provide more value

Any thoughts on the new CMDR 2019 spoilers? I am interested in Growing Ranks I feel like this would give us additional card draw or make get other value in your upkeep. Granted the card isn't new but I had never considered it before.

NVM I read it wrong, I forgot you needed a copy to populate lol

Yea I will need to pick it up and give it a try. With the loss of paradox engine, intruder alarm became more important. I do like that it is flash speed. Currently I replaced it with Genesis which allows for better graveyard recursion. Once mid august comes around I will be able to play CMDR again m...

Here is input from the community. Thanks to moth for the combos KelpScepter Bane Combo Type: Infinite Mana and Defender Tokens. Control an Axebane Guardian , Wall of Kelp and Isochron Scepter , imprinted on the Scepter should be a Dramatic Reversal , and at least 2 other defenders. 1: Tap Axebane Gu...

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