Questions About Your Magic Mindset?

[Buep]

Just recently I’ve come to a point in my (casual) magic career where I have started to question everything I can, and one of the biggest things I have started to question is how I should play my decks. Now, I think it is important to mention how I have been playing my current decks:
Typically, when I play with my favorite decks, I tend to be very defensive, and sense I like to play slower decks I tend to try to go unnoticed until I can win the game from seemingly out of nowhere; which usually works sense I tend to play in medium sized groups.
So, I’m not certain if this is how I should be trying to play my decks or if there is a better was to play them, and sense this is a deck review forum I would like to ask you:
    -    How would you play this deck?
https://deckstats.net/decks/86556/1572060-fortificationsl/en
Also, if it’s not to much to ask:
    -    How would you improve this deck?

[MisterDalek]

A few things

• You are correct in playing this deck defensively. It's a deck full of creatures that can't attack and no combos. Not really any other possible way to play the deck if I'm looking at it correctly.
• You don't need 28 lands In a deck with an average cmc of 2.95. I would recommend going down to 25 lands along with including one or two man lands for purposes listed below (I would recommend Celestial Colonnade if you can afford it and Stirring Wildwood if you're working with a budget, which I assume you are due to the lack of untapped duals).
• To go with the last point, the curve of the deck is somewhat awkward. If I were you, I'd replace some of your lands with mana-dorks like Avacyn's Pilgrim, Birds of Paradise, Llanowar Elves, and their ilk. Additionally, I would replace some of the seemingly redundant parts of the deck with the recommendations below (Angelic Chorus, Brave the Sands, and Tower Defense don't really contribute to you winning the game)
• If you don't draw High Alert, or if your opponent destroys it, you have literally no way to win anymore other than your opponents decking themselves. This is a problem. Adding mana-dorks and man-lands can help by giving some small amount of incremental damage without this, but I would additionally add some card draw (Wall of Blossoms and Wall of Omens are great for this) along with protection in the form of countermagic.
• A really good top-end card that's pretty budget-friendly and would help with a number of the issues listed here is Arcades, the Strategist.

Here's an example list I made based on your deck that's still very budget friendly:


Hope this helps.

[Buep]

Hello, Thank you for your advise, there are several things I will definitely be looking into, and I would like to address some things mentioned by your comment.
    -    While you are correct that none of the creatures can attack on their own, you are incorrect to say that there are no combos, as the majority of the cards play off of each other. In this deck there is a fairly obvious infinite combo which involves Axebane Guardian and High Alert. I actually did see Overgrown Battlement but sense I did not plan on using either at the beginning of the game, and as Axebane Guardian has an infinitely better effect I chose it. Now the combo appears when you have 4 other walls in play and you have High Alert on the field; which should be relatively manageable, so you can tap Axebane Guardian for 5; 1 white; 1 blue; and 3 of any color, you can then untapped Axebane Guardian for 4 and keep 1 of any color mana, and when paired with Dawn can meen the end of your opponent.
    -    You are absolutely correct, and I appreciate you being concerned for my budget.
    -    I will defiantly consider some other creatures that can attack and support the walls without the need for High Alert. I will also consider removing Angelic Chorus because of it’s mana cost; sense the majority of the high defense creatures would probably be in play by the time it is on the field; or perhaps I should add something like Vedalken Mastermind to pair with the infinite mana to lead to infinite health. In regards to Brave the Sands I will probably keep it since it helps with Spam and gives everything Vigilance, Tower Defense however will probably be replaced with a more permanent buff; like Slagwurm Armor.
    -    You are partially correct here, however there are currently 10 equivalents; even though High Alert is the only one that allows for attackers, Drift of Phantasms can search for most cards in the deck, so if I don’t draw one I’m probably having some other problems. But I do acknowledge I definitely need some card advantage as well as some more graveyard retrieval, maybe I’ll add Arcades, the Strategist, also counterspells.
I apresiate the reply, and further replies are definitely welcome.