Arcades • (Bant Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $2.99

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

$2.99 $3.10 $1.29

Commander

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Anthem

Qty: 1 Price: $1.99

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.99 $1.44 $0.87

Anthem

(CTRL to add secondary)

Bounce

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29

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

$1.29 $0.33 $0.15

Bounce

(CTRL to add secondary)

Counters

Qty: 1 Price: $6.99

Canopy Gargantuan

Flying, ward

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a number of +1/+1 counters on each other creature you control equal to that creature's toughness.

Creature - Dragon

$6.99 $4.40 $4.72

Counters

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Draw

Qty: 8 Price: $9.30

Carven Caryatid

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

Creature - Spirit

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Flumph

Defender, flying
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature - Jellyfish

$3.49 $2.33 $1.99

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

$2.99 $2.30 $1.14

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

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

$0.79 $0.26 $0.15

Wall of Mulch

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Wall of Runes

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 2 Price: $0.70

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.20 $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 $0.26 $0.15

Evasion

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Land

Qty: 35 Price: $26.87

Adarkar Wastes

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.99 $0.57 $0.33

Canopy Vista

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Forest

$0.59 $0.35 $0.16

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.69 $0.36 $0.19

Dreamroot Cascade

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

: Add

Land

$2.29 $1.26 $1.04

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

$0.59 $0.36 $0.15

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$0.49 $0.17 $0.15

Glacial Fortress

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

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.32 $0.15

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.22 $0.15

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.92 $4.41

Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.69 $0.37 $0.20

Selesnya Sanctuary

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.35 $0.19

Sunpetal Grove

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

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.42 $0.29

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 $0.30 $0.15

Temple of Plenty

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 $0.43 $0.15

Tranquil Landscape

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Yavimaya Coast

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$1.29 $0.43 $0.29

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 3 Price: $3.37

Huatli, the Sun's Heart

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
−3: You gain life equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control.

Legendary Planeswalker - Huatli

$0.59 $0.39 $0.15

Perimeter Captain

Defender
Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.49 $0.57 $0.19

Tree of Redemption

Defender

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

Creature - Plant

$1.29 $0.71 $0.41

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 16 Price: $73.92

Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn.
• Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Instant

$16.99 $16.86 $15.22

Brave the Sands

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

Enchantment

$5.99 $6.13 $4.64

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 $0.21 $0.15

Crashing Drawbridge

Defender

: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$1.29 $1.11 $0.66

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

$2.99 $2.03 $0.92

Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant

$8.99 $6.88 $5.83

Fortified Rampart

Defender

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Heroic Intervention

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

Instant

$16.99 $15.51 $12.36

Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature - Illusion Wall

$0.59 $0.26 $0.15

Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$6.99 $3.91 $4.11

Stoneskin

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

Enchantment - Aura

$4.49 $1.38 $1.06

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

$4.49 $2.84 $1.90

Wall of Denial

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

Creature - Wall

$0.69 $0.51 $0.33

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 $0.32 $0.15

Wall of Tanglecord

Defender

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

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.39 $0.40 $0.15

Weathered Sentinels

Defender, reach, vigilance, 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 - Wall

$1.99 $1.06 $0.52

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 2 Price: $1.14

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 $0.34 $0.20

Tower Defense

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Pump

(CTRL to add secondary)

Ramp

Qty: 16 Price: $38.30

Arbor Adherent

: Add one mana of any color.

: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the greatest toughness among other creatures you control.

Creature - Druid Dog

$5.49 $3.21 $3.12

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.77 $0.45

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 $0.30 $0.15

Azorius Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.59 $0.33 $0.15

Farseek

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

Sorcery

$1.79 $1.55 $0.47

Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery - Arcane

$2.99 $2.56 $1.51

Overgrown Battlement

Defender

: Add

for each creature you control with defender.

Creature - Wall

$0.59 $0.34 $0.21

Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery

$0.79 $1.20 $0.41

Rampart Architect

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create a 1/3 white Wall creature token with defender.
Whenever a creature you control with defender dies, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature - Advisor Elephant

$0.59 $0.27 $0.15

Selesnya Signet

: Add

Artifact

$1.29 $0.51 $0.27

Shield Sphere

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

Creature Artifact - Wall

$12.99 $8.68 $5.64

Simic Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.69 $0.36 $0.20

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $1.80 $1.44

Sunscape Familiar

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

less to cast.

Creature - Wall

$3.49 $1.30 $1.02

Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof

: Add one mana of any color.

Creature - Plant

$1.99 $0.97 $1.08

Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Add

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.69 $1.18 $0.69

Ramp

(CTRL to add secondary)

Recursion

Qty: 3 Price: $5.43

Mnemonic Wall

Defender
When this creature enters, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Reunion of the House

Return any number of target creature cards with total power 10 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile Reunion of the House.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.39 $0.15

Smile at Death

At the beginning of your upkeep, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures.

Enchantment

$4.49 $3.34 $2.31

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 9 Price: $11.97

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $4.42 $2.87

Dusk

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.64 $0.15

Expel the Interlopers

Choose a number between 0 and 10. Destroy all creatures with power greater than or equal to the chosen number.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

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 $1.73 $1.13

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 $0.27 $0.15

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

$0.39 $0.33 $0.15

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.79 $1.73 $1.22

Wall of Tears

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.

Creature - Wall

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Removal

(CTRL to add secondary)

Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

Shield-Wall Sentinel

Defender
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with defender, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact - Golem

$0.59 $0.37 $0.15

Tutor

(CTRL to add secondary)

Untap

Qty: 1 Price: $0.39

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.

: Untap target creature.

Enchantment

$0.39 $0.45 $0.37

Untap

(CTRL to add secondary)

Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $185.24

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.97Total Mana Value: 193.00

Quantity of

Anthem

Bounce

Commander

Counters

Draw

Evasion

Land

Lifegain

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Tutor

Untap

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Production

Cost

33 pips - 25 cards

Production

33 mana - 32 cards

Cost

16 pips - 13 cards

Production

18 mana - 17 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 7 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 7 cards

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22 pips - 20 cards

Production

22 mana - 21 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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6 mana - 5 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.97Total Mana Value: 193.00

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Anthem

Bounce

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Draw

Evasion

Land

Lifegain

Protection

Pump

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Recursion

Removal

Tutor

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