CommanderTestLabor DE
Price
€396.56of €400.00
Overall win rate
38%15 wins in 39 scored games
Games
40 (1)played in 4 tournaments, 1 not scored (time limit)
Rank
11in the rankings up to €400 · Elo 1667 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 34 lands, 12 of them basic
Game Changer
3of at most 3 allowed
Combos
1complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

At most €400 including the commander. If prices rise above that, the shopping list is rebuilt automatically.

grey: role in the deckGame Changer counts for the bracketCombo part of a comboAI can't play replaced in tournamentsAI limited played weakly by the AI

Commander (1)

Creatures (38)

Instants (10)

Sorceries (6)

Artifacts (5)

Enchantments (6)

Lands (34)

Arcades, the Strategist
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

Combos in the deck (1)

Detected from the decklist (Commander Spellbook): theoretically possible, see Spellbook for requirements. Whether a combo actually came together in games is shown above under “What the games show”.

  • Axebane Guardian + High Alert → Infinite colored mana, Infinite mana creatures you control can produce, Infinite untap of creatures you control

Adjusted for the Forge AI

The list above is the best tested version, the way you would play it in real games. The Forge AI can't play a few cards – they were replaced in the tournament (the deck builder also rearranges other slots within the budget). The win rate comes from games with these replacements; the original cards themselves were not tested by the AI.

In the list (original cards)
  • Beast Within: AI can't play it
  • Ghalta the Immovable: not in Forge
  • Slaughter the Strong: AI can't play it
  • Tower Defense: AI can't play it
Played instead in the tournament
  • Fog Bank: replacement
  • Negate: replacement
  • Plagon, Lord of the Beach: replacement
  • Wall of Mulch: replacement

What the games show

From 39 analysed games in 4 tournaments (tournament lists as played by Forge). Games that hit the time limit don't count, just like in the rankings. Values in brackets: average of all decks in the same price class. “logged”: recorded in the game log. “indication”: recurring pattern, but no proof of cause and effect.

Play style: wins through combat – 100% of the damage to opponents is combat damage

Strengths

  • Applies a lot of pressure: avg 43 damage to opponents per game (all-deck avg: 28) logged (39 games)
  • Stable mana: fewer than 3 lands after turn 3 in only 3% of games (all-deck avg: 10%) logged (1 of 39 games)
  • Clears the table: eliminates 0.85 opponents per game on average (all-deck avg: 0.62) logged (39 games)
  • Resilient: even in losses it lasts until its 11th own turn on average (all-deck avg: 10th) logged (24 losses)

Weaknesses

  • Slow to win: wins on average only on its 13th own turn (all-deck avg: 12th) logged (15 wins)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 39 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Arcades, the Strategist avg 7.2hit in 29 of 39 games
  2. Wall of Frost avg 2.8hit in 7 of 39 games
  3. Fortified Rampart avg 1.9hit in 5 of 39 games

Damage when used when it hits

Total damage ÷ games in which the card dealt damage – its strength when used

  1. Wall of Junk avg 17.5hit in 4 of 39 games
  2. Wall of Denial avg 17.2hit in 4 of 39 games
  3. Weathered Sentinels avg 17.0hit in 3 of 39 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

Cards that most often knocked an opposing commander out of the game

  1. Bird Token 5×39 games in deck
  2. Arcades, the Strategist 3×39 games in deck
  3. Drift of Phantasms 3×39 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

Opposing cards destroyed, exiled, bounced or countered when this card resolved (tokens excluded)

  1. Fell the Mighty 66×avg 1.7 per game · 39 games in deck
  2. Dusk 34×avg 0.9 per game · 39 games in deck
  3. Path to Exile 13×avg 0.3 per game · 39 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 19% of 659 attackers blocked in total, 33% of those by flyers or reach

  1. Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 3×blocked in 3 games

Rarely cast candidates to cut

Cards in this list that were cast least often in their games – often too expensive or too slow (lands excluded)

  1. Corrupted Shapeshifter 0%cast in 0 of 39 games
  2. Dusk // Dawn 0%cast in 0 of 39 games
  3. Meekstone 0%cast in 0 of 39 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 15 wins came

  • by turn 70%
  • turns 8–90%
  • turns 10–1127%
  • turns 12–1340%
  • turn 14+33%

Combos in play logged Axebane Guardian + High Alert: all pieces cast in 1 games, 0 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 2.85

1
0
7
1
30
2
14
3
7
4
1
5
1
6
4
7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
10 / 10
Card draw
7 / 6
Removal
7 / 7
Board wipe
3 / 3
Protection
5 / 5
Strategy
33 cards no target

Count / target from the EDHREC average deck (the line), red means clearly below. Strategy: the remaining cards without one of these roles, such as the creatures and effects the deck is built around. 65 non-land cards in total.

Card types

Creatures
38
Instants
10
Sorceries
6
Artifacts
5
Enchantments
6
Lands
34

Most expensive cards

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€24.90
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€23.47
The Walls of Ba Sing Se
€19.96
Sea of Clouds
€19.39
Akroma's Will
€14.98

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Total €396.56 Cardmarket average as of Oct 29, 2026

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Placement in every tournament

Oldest on the left. Green: top 3, blue: top 10.

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Best place 3 · average place 16.2 · 1× top 3 · 2× top 10 out of 4 tournaments

Played by the Forge AI, four players per game. An average deck wins 25%. How are decks tested?