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WALLS DECK WIN!!!!!!

Hi all, this is a work in progress, I'm very much into tribal decks, and after playing almost all type of tribes be it in Commander, Legacy, Modern and Standard formats, I have decided to try the creature type walls - hence Walls deck win!

I'm not too familiar with playing walls though, I choose Esper Walls because:

W - There are a few number of animation walls spells and creatures so white is definitely the first choice.
U - I notice there are a few "attackable" walls so blue is in.
B - Old school walls and very cute walls so they will make the 3rd color.

I might just play 2 color walls in future, anyway this is a work in progress list so I'll continue to update when I have new card ideas and interaction.

This deck objectives is just to have a good laugh and play cards I will never play with - I also hope to have a slight impact on the board here and there.

Add these perhaps?
Warmonger's Chariot
Illusionary Wall
Perimeter Captain

Honestly I think Vent Sentinel is a reason to run Red. Maybe go with a 5 color general. Overgrown Battlement is pretty sweet too.

EDIT: And you need to add Wall of Omens at any rate

Quote from Schutzwald »

Honestly I think Vent Sentinel is a reason to run Red. Maybe go with a 5 color general. Overgrown Battlement is pretty sweet too.

EDIT: And you need to add Wall of Omens at any rate

Johan would be a flavourful defender commander. I'd also include Lobber Crew and Rage Nimbus (maybe Flamewright, too).

I completely forgot about the Nimbus. I definitely think this deck should run red. Good call

I'd think that Doran, the siege tower would be the premier wall commander.

Quote from ShiroeTheEnchanter »

Add these perhaps?
Warmonger's Chariot
Illusionary Wall
Perimeter Captain

Warmonger's Chariot is a great suggestion! Just what I was looking for - equipments, enchantments which can allow the walls to attack.
I considered Illusionary Wall, even though it is quite a beater but felt it was quite difficult to pay for the cumulative upkeep and attack effectively with it.
Perimeter Captain is fun, I actually completely missed out on defenders. Anyway it is a wall deck, so it will be walls first as a creature type!

Quote from Schutzwald »

Honestly I think Vent Sentinel is a reason to run Red. Maybe go with a 5 color general. Overgrown Battlement is pretty sweet too.

EDIT: And you need to add Wall of Omens at any rate

I should definitely add Wall of Omens. Initially I wanted to play a 5 color deck, it's just personally I didn't feel like going with a 5 color decks with all those green ramp spells etc, which is so overplayed. Thus decided against playing green - so that means I only have 3 colors walls to play with, a white/blue/read American Jeskai deck is possible too, there are some interesting walls with red but I'll got with black since I need the tutors to get those Rolling stones and Animate Wall cards out. There are also very cute walls such as Wall of Tombstone, Cemetery Gate and Wall of Putrid Flesh which I must most definitely play.

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Quote from Schutzwald »

Honestly I think Vent Sentinel is a reason to run Red. Maybe go with a 5 color general. Overgrown Battlement is pretty sweet too.

EDIT: And you need to add Wall of Omens at any rate

Johan would be a flavourful defender commander. I'd also include Lobber Crew and Rage Nimbus (maybe Flamewright, too).

I intend to stick to black first, however I can see Rage Nimbus as a useful card to force opponent creatures to walk/attack into my walls lol.

Quote from Burntgerbil »

I'd think that Doran, the siege tower would be the premier wall commander.

Now Doran would really be nasty with Walls....that would mean replacing blue with green, definitely a very good choice for wall commander!

Wall of Mulch seems like the best reason to play walls. Wall is about to die? Draw a card! Wrath of God? Draw a LOT of cards.

As for the current list, you have a LOT of ways to bring back enchantments...with very few enchantments at all. I know you are REALLY paranoid about losing Rolling Stones, but I think you overkilled the enchantment Resurrection. And on top of that, Rolling Stones doesn't help when most of your walls have 0 power. I would replace a lot of those recursion effects with attack pumps. OR....go red for Vent Sentinel and Lobber Crew.

Playing tribal with black and no Patriarch's Bidding? You can also recur Bidding with Mnemonic Wall for value and staying power.

looking through Green's walls, I've found the following considerations:

• Archer's Parapet
  
• Axebane Guardian
  
• Carven Caryatid
  
• Gatecreeper Vine
  
• Hornet Nest
  
• Mindbender Spores
  
• Overgrown Battlement
  
• Sprouting Phytohydra
  
• Sylvan Caryatid
  
• Traproot Kami
  
• Tree of Redemption
  
• Vine Trellis
  
• Wall of Blossoms
  
• Wall of Mulch
  
• Wall of Roots
  
• Whip Vine

Some of these have some pretty cool and unique abilities.

There is only one wall commander, his name is Doran

Yea seriously scrap blue and got for Doran. He also makes cards like Indomitable Ancients, Slagwurm Armor and Solidarity amazing.

If you do use Doran, Tree of Redemption often becomes a finisher if it connects.

~Lil Kalki

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Wall of Mulch seems like the best reason to play walls. Wall is about to die? Draw a card! Wrath of God? Draw a LOT of cards.

As for the current list, you have a LOT of ways to bring back enchantments...with very few enchantments at all. I know you are REALLY paranoid about losing Rolling Stones, but I think you overkilled the enchantment Resurrection. And on top of that, Rolling Stones doesn't help when most of your walls have 0 power. I would replace a lot of those recursion effects with attack pumps. OR....go red for Vent Sentinel and Lobber Crew.

Your are right haha, I'm paranoid about losing Rolling Stones because it seems to be one of the only card which can let the walls go on the offensive. Yup I agree there is way too many enchantment Recursion - I will streamline them later on, currently I'm just adding into the list whatever enchantment recursion I could think off.

I also just searched out Wakestone Gargoyle - - another card which definitely will make the deck.

Quote from jakalova »

Playing tribal with black and no Patriarch's Bidding? You can also recur Bidding with Mnemonic Wall for value and staying power.

Patriarch's Bidding is a good one - my friend play it in its Scion Ur Dragon deck and destroy us all the time lol.

Looks like Blue might be eventually removed for Green, I'm still deliberating over green or red to replace blue.

Quote from Michealmas »

You should really consider splashing Red into this. I had a R/W wall deck in vintage for a while and although it wasn't that strong (it was still walls after all) red has some huge cards for playing around with the Defender mechanic Vent Sentinel, Æther Membrane, Flamewright, Glyph of Destruction, Total War and Lobber Crew. Plus you can run cards like Boros Charm, Assemble the Legion etc. to pad out your roster. Without Red, you're going to struggle to deal damage but with it, you can hide behind your cheap and effecient defenders, sling spells for damage to whittle people down until you reach a point where you can turn them aggressive and beat face.

There's so many suggestion to splash red and green for walls deck win - I reckon we can almost have a [mana]RG[mana]deck lists, there are really good useful wall though as suggested Wall of Mulch and Wall of Blossoms by Burntgerbil, I immediately thought of Carnivorous Plant, it used to be a card I played back when I was having 80 cards standard decks.

To throw it open to another colour combination - RWB - Alesha, Who Smiles at Death allows you to cheat any dead walls with power <2 back into play attacking

Quote from PhroX »

To throw it open to another colour combination - RWB - Alesha, Who Smiles at Death allows you to cheat any dead walls with power <2 back into play attacking

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death is really good choice as commander - cheap, free and consistent recursion is very very welcome!

If you can convince your playgroup, you might also be able to run Yore-Tiller Nephilim, which is hilariously gimmicky with walls.

There's not a ton of stuff for Wall tribal, but there are some build-your-own-tribe cards:

• Brass Herald
  
• Adaptive Automaton
  
• Coat of Arms
  
• Door of Destinies
  
• Volrath's Laboratory
  
• Riptide Replicator
  

Quote from osieorb18 »

If you can convince your playgroup, you might also be able to run Yore-Tiller Nephilim, which is hilariously gimmicky with walls.

Thanks for the suggestions, I was hoping they would eventually change the rule to allow Nephilim as a Commander - house rules are difficult when you have people who might just join the playgroup from time to time.

Quote from Hunding Gjornersen »

There's not a ton of stuff for Wall tribal, but there are some build-your-own-tribe cards:

• Brass Herald
  
• Adaptive Automaton
  
• Coat of Arms
  
• Door of Destinies
  
• Volrath's Laboratory
  
• Riptide Replicator
  

Excellent suggestions, good to give the walls some anthem effects .

The five-color suggestion is strong and still allows Doran and Alesha in the 99.

Phenax, God of Deception is the general of my (awful) wall/defender deck.

Proper Burial, perhaps?

Cheers!