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

$2.99 $2.69 $1.46

Commander

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Hold the Gates

Creatures you control get +0/+1 for each Gate you control and have vigilance.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$2.29 $0.81 $0.45

Anthem

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Ghostway

Exile each creature you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant

$5.99 $4.74 $2.95

Blink

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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 $0.32 $0.15

Bounce

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Errant, Street Artist

Flash
Defender, haste

: Copy target spell you control that wasn't cast. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

$0.49 $0.39 $0.15

Copy

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Carven Caryatid

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

Creature - Spirit

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Orator of Ojutai

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.
Defender, flying
When this creature enters, if you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, draw a card.

Creature - Bird Monk

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, draw a card, then create a 0/3 white Wall creature token with defender.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with defender gain exalted until end of turn. (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted among permanents you control.)

Legendary Artifact

$11.99 $8.40 $7.28

Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

Defender
Sokrates has hexproof as long as it's untapped.
Sokratic Dialogue —

: Until end of turn, target creature gains "If this creature would deal combat damage to a player, prevent that damage. This creature's controller and that player each draw half that many cards, rounded down."

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$1.49 $0.99 $0.27

Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Legendary Enchantment

$7.49 $5.14 $3.95

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 $2.50 $1.26

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 $0.34 $0.15

Wall of Kelp

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Create a 0/1 blue Plant Wall creature token with defender named Kelp.

Creature - Plant Wall

$2.29 $2.42 $1.03

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Draw

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Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.22 $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 $0.29 $0.15

Towering Viewpoint

Defender, reach
Leap of Faith —

: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Evasion

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Azorius Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Baldur's Gate

: Add

: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.

Legendary Land - Gate

$4.49 $3.75 $2.14

Barkchannel Pathway

: Add

Land

Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251

$7.49 $5.33 $4.01

Basilisk Gate

: Add

: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land - Gate

$0.99 $0.29 $0.17

Breeding Pool

(

: Add

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

Land - Island Forest

$13.99 $10.04 $8.08

Citadel Gate

This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than white.

: Add

or one mana of the chosen color.

Land - Gate

$2.29 $1.19 $1.02

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.69 $0.39 $0.20

Evolving Wilds

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

Land

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$0.79 $0.37 $0.15

Gateway Plaza

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay

: Add one mana of any color.

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Glacial Fortress

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

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Gond Gate

Gates you control enter untapped.

: Add

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

Land - Gate

$2.49 $1.59 $1.35

Hallowed Fountain

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: Add

.)
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

Heap Gate

: Add

: Add one mana of any color.

, Tap an untapped Gate you control: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Land - Gate

$0.79 $0.53 $0.31

Hengegate Pathway

: Add

Land

Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260

$7.49 $5.05 $4.42

Hinterland Harbor

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

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.27 $0.19

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Manor Gate

This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than green.

: Add

or one mana of the chosen color.

Land - Gate

$1.49 $1.03 $0.85

Maze's End

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Return this land to its owner's hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game.

Land

$3.49 $4.10 $2.76

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.99 $0.38 $0.15

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$5.99 $4.96 $4.16

Sea Gate

This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than blue.

: Add

or one mana of the chosen color.

Land - Gate

$1.79 $0.95 $0.71

Selesnya Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Simic Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Sunpetal Grove

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

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.46 $0.15

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

$11.99 $8.77 $7.66

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land

$0.59 $0.24 $0.15

Thran Portal

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
As this land enters, choose a basic land type.
This land is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Mana abilities of this land cost an additional 1 life to activate.

Land - Gate

$0.99 $0.74 $0.15

Land

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Perimeter Captain

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.79 $0.54 $0.15

Lifegain

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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

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

Mill

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Angelic Shield

Creatures you control get +0/+1.
Sacrifice this enchantment: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Crashing Drawbridge

Defender

: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$1.49 $1.00 $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

$3.49 $1.91 $0.96

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

$9.99 $6.86 $5.73

Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature - Illusion Wall

$0.79 $0.31 $0.15

Mirror Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has hexproof and "Whenever a creature with deathtouch blocks or becomes blocked by this creature, destroy that creature."
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$0.99 $0.46 $0.36

Resolute Watchdog

Defender

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

Creature - Dog

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

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

$3.49 $2.57 $1.82

Traproot Kami

Defender; reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Traproot Kami's toughness is equal to the number of Forests on the battlefield.

Creature - Spirit

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Wall of Denial

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

Creature - Wall

$0.69 $0.51 $0.32

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

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

Protection

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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

$0.99 $0.38 $0.21

Tower Defense

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.29 $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

$0.39 $0.31 $0.15

Pump

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.54 $0.39

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 $0.60 $0.15

Exploration

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Enchantment

$29.99 $30.76 $28.65

Explore

You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.34 $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 $0.67 $0.60

Gatecreeper Vine

Defender
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature - Plant

$0.59 $0.26 $0.15

Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant

$0.69 $0.30 $0.18

Navigation Orb

, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact

$0.79 $0.23 $0.15

Overgrown Battlement

Defender

: Add

for each creature you control with defender.

Creature - Wall

$0.59 $0.35 $0.21

Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.89 $0.41

Saruli Caretaker

Defender

, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Creature - Dryad

$0.99 $0.29 $0.15

Shield Sphere

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

Creature Artifact - Wall

$14.99 $8.36 $5.71

Simic Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.69 $0.33 $0.15

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $2.15 $1.44

Sunscape Familiar

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

less to cast.

Creature - Wall

$2.79 $1.18 $0.81

Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof

: Add one mana of any color.

Creature - Plant

$1.99 $1.23 $1.02

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$5.49 $2.92 $2.59

Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Add

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.99 $1.17 $0.68

Wall of Roots

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

. Activate only once each turn.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Ramp

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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

Recursion

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Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant

$42.99 $38.41 $32.14

Dusk

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.27 $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 $0.30 $0.15

Fell the Mighty

Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.33 $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 $0.30 $0.15

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.49 $1.89 $1.34

Removal

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Meekstone

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

Artifact

$8.49 $5.55 $4.63

Stax

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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 $0.29 $0.15

Tokens

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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 $0.30 $0.15

Tutor

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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.

: Untap target creature.

Enchantment

$0.39 $0.45 $0.32

Intruder Alarm

Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.

Enchantment

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

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $287.40

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.52Total Mana Value: 166.00

Quantity of

Anthem

Blink

Bounce

Commander

Copy

Draw

Evasion

Land

Lifegain

Mill

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Stax

Tokens

Tutor

Untap

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Cost

Production

Cost

30 pips - 25 cards

Production

21 mana - 20 cards

Cost

19 pips - 17 cards

Production

23 mana - 22 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 9 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 9 cards

Cost

19 pips - 18 cards

Production

25 mana - 24 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

9 mana - 8 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.52Total Mana Value: 166.00

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Pump

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Recursion

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Tokens

Tutor

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