Arcades • (Bant Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Arcades, the Strategist

Flying, vigilance
Whenever a creature you control with defender enters, draw a card.
Each creature you control with defender assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon

$3.49 $2.75 $1.39

Commander

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Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery

$3.49 $4.22 $2.58

2X2

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Glacial Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

7ED

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Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$1.29 $0.44 $0.42

AFC

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Shield Sphere

Defender
Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$13.99 $8.37 $6.41

ALL

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Forest

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Basic Land - Forest

$0.49 $0.22 $0.15

Island

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Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.14 $0.15

Jaddi Offshoot

Defender
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature - Plant

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Plains

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Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.18 $0.15

BFZ

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Burnished Hart

, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact - Elk

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

BRR

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Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Enchantment - Aura

$1.79 $1.36 $0.91

C13

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Sunpetal Grove

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.

: Add

Land

$1.29 $0.51 $0.30

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Sorcery

$5.99 $6.89 $0.95

C16

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Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

$0.79 $0.26 $0.18

Wall of Stolen Identity

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Wall in addition to its other types and has defender. When you do, tap the copied creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.

Creature - Shapeshifter Wall

$3.49 $3.90 $2.50

C19

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Prairie Stream

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This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Plains Island

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

C20

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Temple of the False God

: Add

. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

CM2

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Commander's Sphere

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Return to Dust

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Instant

$0.35 $0.36 $0.15

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$3.49 $1.35 $1.42

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and

no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$3.99 $2.61 $1.87

CMA

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Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant

$2.49 $1.34 $1.21

Wall of Denial

Defender, flying
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature - Wall

$0.69 $0.52 $0.32

CMD

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Crashing Drawbridge

Defender

: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$2.29 $2.89 $0.80

Mirari's Wake

Creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced.

Enchantment

$6.99 $5.33 $3.61

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.86 $4.11

CMM

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Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant

$2.49 $1.31 $1.23

CNS

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Wall of Shards

Defender, flying
Cumulative upkeep—An opponent gains 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Snow Creature - Wall

$---- $---- $----

CSP

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Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Add

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.79 $1.17 $0.68

DDD

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Steel Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$1.29 $0.38 $0.31

DDF

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Wall of Junk

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature blocks, return it to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.69 $0.30 $0.15

DMR

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Clockwork Drawbridge

Defender

: Tap target creature.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Coral Colony

Defender

: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Idyllic Beachfront

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This land enters tapped.

Land - Plains Island

$0.59 $0.24 $0.15

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Radiant Grove

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This land enters tapped.

Land - Plains Forest

$0.39 $0.25 $0.15

Walking Bulwark

Defender

: Until end of turn, target creature with defender gains haste, can attack as though it didn't have defender, and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature Artifact - Golem

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Wingmantle Chaplain

Defender
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying for each creature with defender you control.
Whenever another creature you control with defender enters, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

DMU

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Restricted Office

When you unlock this door, destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

Enchantment - Room

Restricted Office // Lecture Hall (dsk) 227

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

DSK

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Assault Formation

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.

: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment

$0.79 $0.56 $0.15

DTK

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Tome of Legends

This artifact enters with a page counter on it.
Whenever your commander enters or attacks, put a page counter on this artifact.

, Remove a page counter from this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact - Book

$0.49 $0.69 $0.31

ELD

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Crystal Barricade

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$3.49 $1.75 $0.94

Rune-Sealed Wall

Defender

: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

FDN

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Jeskai Barricade

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Defender
When this creature enters, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature - Wall

$0.99 $0.30 $0.15

FRF

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Portcullis Vine

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

GRN

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Breeding Pool

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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Forest

$16.99 $11.02 $10.09

GTC

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Jungle Barrier

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Star Compass

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

Artifact

$0.59 $0.33 $0.23

IMA

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Cryptolith Rite

Creatures you control have "

: Add one mana of any color."

Enchantment

$17.99 $12.63 $10.87

INR

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Gavony Township

: Add

: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Land

$5.49 $5.21 $4.19

Hinterland Harbor

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.32 $0.18

Tree of Redemption

Defender

: Exchange your life total with this creature's toughness.

Creature - Plant

$1.99 $1.74 $1.22

ISD

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Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Flooded Strand

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$20.99 $15.84 $14.49

Windswept Heath

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$16.99 $12.29 $10.15

KTK

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Slaughter the Strong

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Teyo, the Shieldmage

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
−2: Create a 0/3 white Wall creature token with defender.

Legendary Planeswalker - Teyo

$0.59 $0.19 $0.15

Wargate

Search your library for a permanent card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$4.49 $4.30 $3.43

LIST

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Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.26 $0.16

M11

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Wall of Frost

Defender
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

M14

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Chord of Calling

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for

or one mana of that creature's color.)
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant

$9.49 $7.37 $5.99

M15

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Wall of Mist

Defender

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

M19

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Fabled Passage

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land

$2.29 $1.60 $0.93

M21

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Corrupted Shapeshifter

Devoid (This card has no color.)
As this creature enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 creature with flying, a 2/5 creature with vigilance, or a 0/12 creature with defender.

Creature - Shapeshifter Eldrazi

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

MH3

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Wall of Roots

Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add

. Activate only once each turn.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.59 $0.39 $0.15

MIR

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The Pride of Hull Clade

This spell costs

less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control.
Defender

: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Legendary Creature - Turtle Crocodile Elk

$3.99 $2.54 $1.26

MKM

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Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.59 $0.38 $0.18

MM3

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Temple of Mystery

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

MOC

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Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.48 $0.39

MPRP

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Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$1.29 $0.44 $0.19

PC2

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Sunscape Familiar

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Green spells and blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Creature - Wall

$2.99 $1.27 $0.91

PLS

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Drift of Phantasms

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Transmute

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature - Spirit

$0.39 $0.25 $0.15

RAV

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Tower Defense

Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

RNA

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Overgrown Battlement

Defender

: Add

for each creature you control with defender.

Creature - Wall

$0.49 $0.34 $0.22

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

Defender
Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.

Creature - Human Soldier

$2.29 $0.98 $0.45

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.39 $0.39 $0.19

ROE

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Axebane Guardian

Defender

: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

Creature - Human Druid

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Detention Sphere

When this enchantment enters, you may exile target nonland permanent not named Detention Sphere and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.20 $0.15

Doorkeeper

Defender

: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

Creature - Homunculus

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Hallowed Fountain

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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Island

$13.99 $9.13 $8.85

Temple Garden

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: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Forest

$10.99 $8.76 $7.86

RTR

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Wall of Tanglecord

Defender

: This creature gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.41 $0.15

SOM

(Ctrl to add secondary)

The Birth of Meletis

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
II — Create a 0/4 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender.
III — You gain 2 life.

Enchantment - Saga

$0.59 $0.25 $0.15

THB

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Guardians of Meletis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact - Golem

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof

: Add one mana of any color.

Creature - Plant

$2.29 $1.41 $0.94

THS

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Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant

$1.29 $1.61 $0.69

TSP

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Temple of Enlightenment

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

VOC

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $234.51

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.68Total Mana Value: 177.00

Quantity of

2X2

7ED

AFC

ALL

BFZ

BRR

C13

C16

C19

C20

CM2

CMA

CMD

CMM

CNS

CSP

Commander

DDD

DDF

DMR

DMU

DSK

DTK

ELD

FDN

FRF

GRN

GTC

IMA

INR

ISD

KTK

LIST

M11

M14

M15

M19

M21

MH3

MIR

MKM

MM3

MOC

MPRP

PC2

PLS

RAV

RNA

ROE

RTR

SOM

THB

THS

TSP

VOC

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Deck stats

Cost

Production

Cost

27 pips - 23 cards

Production

22 mana - 22 cards

Cost

21 pips - 19 cards

Production

22 mana - 22 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 8 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 8 cards

Cost

22 pips - 20 cards

Production

23 mana - 23 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

6 mana - 4 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.68Total Mana Value: 177.00

Mana curve by

White Spells

Blue Spells

Black Spells

Red Spells

Green Spells

Colorless Spells

Probability of draw

card(s) by

having drawn

card(s)

CategoriesQtyOdds

Quantity of

2X2

7ED

AFC

ALL

BFZ

BRR

C13

C16

C19

C20

CM2

CMA

CMD

CMM

CNS

CSP

Commander

DDD

DDF

DMR

DMU

DSK

DTK

ELD

FDN

FRF

GRN

GTC

IMA

INR

ISD

KTK

LIST

M11

M14

M15

M19

M21

MH3

MIR

MKM

MM3

MOC

MPRP

PC2

PLS

RAV

RNA

ROE

RTR

SOM

THB

THS

TSP

VOC

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