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Arcades
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $852.00
Salt sum: 45.92
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Commander

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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.

Creature
Arcades, the Strategist (m19) 212

Commander

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Bounce

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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
Jeskai Barricade (frf) 15

Bounce

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Creature

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Wall of Ice

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature
Wall of Ice (4ed) 283

Creature

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Draw

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Last March of the Ents

This spell can't be countered. Draw cards equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control, then put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Last March of the Ents (ltr) 172
Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Mentor of the Meek (onc) 81
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (pcy) 45
Rigo, Streetwise Mentor

Rigo enters with a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.) Whenever you attack a player or planeswalker with one or more creatures with power 1 or less, draw a card.

Creature
Rigo, Streetwise Mentor (snc) 329
The Pride of Hull Clade

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control. Defender {2}{U}{U}: 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.

Creature
The Pride of Hull Clade (mkm) 172
Tocasia's Welcome

Whenever one or more creatures you control with mana value 3 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Tocasia's Welcome (bro) 30
Wall of Blossoms

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Blossoms (jmp) 442
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 of Junk (dmr) 240
Wall of Omens

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Omens (2x2) 33

Draw

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Evasion

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Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Creature
Angelic Wall (m14) 4
Primal Rage

Creatures you control have trample. (A creature with trample can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Enchantment
Primal Rage (10e) 286
Suspicious Bookcase

Defender {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact
Suspicious Bookcase (plst) M19-246
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (mul) 12

Evasion

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Finisher

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Towering Titan

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total toughness of other creatures you control. Sacrifice a creature with defender: All creatures gain trample until end of turn.

Creature
Towering Titan (jmp) 31
Triumph of the Hordes

Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample and infect. (Creatures with infect deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Sorcery
Triumph of the Hordes (plst) NPH-123

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 33 Price: $273.15
Branchloft Pathway

Land
Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (plst) ZNR-258Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (plst) ZNR-258
Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Canopy Vista (ncc) 389
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (cmr) 350
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

{T}: Add {W}. Channel — {2}{W}, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (pneo) 268s
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (mic) 173
Flooded Strand

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

Land
Flooded Strand (ktk) 233
Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you tap this land for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Land
Forbidden Orchard (c16) 296
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (m21) 272
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (ltc) 315
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rtr) 241
Hengegate Pathway

Land
Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (plst) KHM-260Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (plst) KHM-260
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (m21) 264
Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (j22) 99
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (moc) 420
Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Prismatic Vista (mh1) 244
Rejuvenating Springs

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (ltc) 325
Sea of Clouds

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Sea of Clouds (zne) 16
Spara's Headquarters

({T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Spara's Headquarters (snc) 355
Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Temple Garden (pgrn) 258p
Windswept Heath

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

Land
Windswept Heath (ktk) 248
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Land
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth (pmh2) 261s

Land

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Lifegain

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Tree of Redemption

Defender {T}: Exchange your life total with this creature's toughness.

Creature
Tree of Redemption (a25) 191

Lifegain

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Protection

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Brave the Sands

Creatures you control have vigilance. Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.

Enchantment
Brave the Sands (ktk) 5
Crashing Drawbridge

Defender {T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
Flawless Maneuver

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Flawless Maneuver (c20) 26
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (pm21) 188s
Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (mrd) 199
Resolute Watchdog

Defender {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature
Resolute Watchdog (rna) 19
Riptide Turtle

Flash Defender

Creature
Riptide Turtle (thb) 61
Slagwurm Armor

Equipped creature gets +0/+6. Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Artifact
Slagwurm Armor (mrd) 243
Stoneskin

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+10.

Enchantment
Stoneskin (clb) 45
Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.) Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 32
Wall of Denial

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

Creature
Wall of Denial (arb) 16
Wall of Frost

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

Creature
Wall of Frost (m14) 78
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.)

Creature
Wall of Shards (plst) CSP-23
Weathered Sentinels

Defender, vigilance, reach, trample This creature can attack players who attacked you during their last turn as though it didn't have defender. Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +3/+3 and gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Weathered Sentinels (ncc) 85

Protection

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Pump

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Bar the Door

Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.

Instant
Bar the Door (dka) 2
Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus

Reach At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn. {G/P}{G/P}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Zopandrel. ({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)

Creature
Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus (one) 315

Pump

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (ltc) 273
Axebane Guardian

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

Creature
Axebane Guardian (rtr) 115
Azorius Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Artifact
Azorius Signet (voc) 161
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (ltc) 244
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
Mirari's Wake (cns) 189
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (clb) 244
Overgrown Battlement

Defender {T}: Add {G} for each creature you control with defender.

Creature
Overgrown Battlement (ncc) 303
Selesnya Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

Artifact
Selesnya Signet (c13) 257
Shield Sphere

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

Creature Artifact
Shield Sphere (all) 129
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (pf19) 7
Sunscape Familiar

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Green spells and blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Sunscape Familiar (pls) 17
Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Sylvan Caryatid (ths) 180
Talisman of Curiosity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (mh1) 232
Talisman of Unity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Unity (mic) 165
Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Three Visits (clb) 837
Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Vine Trellis (8ed) 287

Ramp

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Removal

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Aura Shards

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment
Aura Shards (inv) 233
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (plst) NPH-103
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (c14) 104
Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Instant
Generous Gift (mh1) 11
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (cmr) 80
Retribution of the Meek

Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Retribution of the Meek (vis) 19
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
Slaughter the Strong (clb) 43
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (ltc) 178

Removal

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Stax

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Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

Vigilance If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. Permanents entering don't cause abilities of permanents your opponents control to trigger.

Creature
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines (pone) 10p
Marble Titan

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Creature
Marble Titan (tmp) 28
Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Artifact
Meekstone (5ed) 389

Stax

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Tutor

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Eladamri's Call

Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Instant
Eladamri's Call (mh1) 197

Tutor

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Untap

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High Alert

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Creatures you control can attack as though they didn't have defender. {2}{W}{U}: Untap target creature.

Enchantment
High Alert (rna) 182

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck stats

30 pips - 27 cards
26 mana - 26 cards
14 pips - 12 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 8 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 8 cards
27 pips - 23 cards
23 mana - 23 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 4 cards
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