mtg arcades the strategist commander deck What cards to include in an Arcades, deck? Each creature you control with defender assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power and can attack as though it didnt have defender. Arcades, the Strategist

However, the best choice of commander deck is whichever one suits a strategy that the player is interested in

Transcendent Dragon might be the coolest Mystic Snake ever printed

Although Etched Champion was a card we picked up as a reprint in Modern Masters packs, its legacy in the game is actually through the Modern format, where it saw and continues to see play, in the Affinity archetype

Somehow, they managed it, although Id guess that the set only featuring 85 cards might have made the burden of designing within these constraints a bit easier

As for playgroups, sometimes you just need a bundle that has cards that were meant to play together and the Bloomburrow precon bundle is full of powerful tribes that offer a unique tabletop game