Socratic Method • (Azorius Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29

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

$1.29 $0.84 $0.35

Commander

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Draw

Qty: 13 Price: $215.57

Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Creature - Avatar

$0.79 $0.33 $0.15

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant

$2.79 $1.64 $1.53

Insight

Whenever an opponent casts a green spell, you draw a card.

Enchantment

$1.99 $1.76 $0.51

Minds Aglow

Join forces — Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player draws X cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Sorcery

$2.79 $1.68 $0.72

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$5.49 $2.97 $2.25

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$79.99 $67.21 $67.73

Sea Gate Restoration

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand plus one. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

Sorcery

Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76

$47.99 $36.65 $35.84

Teferi, Master of Time

You may activate loyalty abilities of Teferi on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant.
+1: Draw a card, then discard a card.
−3: Target creature you don't control phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)
−10: Take two extra turns after this one.

Legendary Planeswalker - Teferi

$15.99 $8.54 $8.53

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

$6.99 $5.01 $3.95

The Council of Four

Whenever a player draws their second card during their turn, you draw a card.
Whenever a player casts their second spell during their turn, you create a 2/2 white Knight creature token.

Legendary Creature - Human Noble

$2.79 $2.16 $1.51

The Second Doctor

Players have no maximum hand size.
How Civil of You — At the beginning of your end step, each player may draw a card. Each opponent who does can't attack you or permanents you control during their next turn.

Legendary Creature - Doctor Time Lord

$5.99 $2.64 $2.24

Triskaidekaphile

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game.

: Draw a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.99 $1.14 $0.45

Trouble in Pairs

If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.
Whenever an opponent attacks you with two or more creatures, draws their second card each turn, or casts their second spell each turn, you draw a card.

Enchantment

$39.99 $31.45 $29.17

Draw

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $8.49

Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Sorcery

$8.49 $6.44 $6.19

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 32 (35 w/ MDFC)Price: $38.58

Adarkar Wastes

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.99 $0.37 $0.29

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.79 $0.26 $0.21

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

$0.59 $0.30 $0.15

Glacial Fortress

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

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Hallowed Fountain

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Island

$11.99 $7.38 $6.51

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.20 $0.15

Mystic Gate

: Add

, or

Land

$3.99 $4.47 $4.41

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $5.07 $4.16

Remote Farm

This land enters tapped with two depletion counters on it.

, Remove a depletion counter from this land: Add

. If there are no depletion counters on this land, sacrifice it.

Land

$1.49 $1.21 $0.78

Skycloud Expanse

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

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 $0.27 $0.15

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 1 Price: $1.49

Kiyomaro, First to Stand

Kiyomaro's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
As long as you have four or more cards in hand, Kiyomaro has vigilance.
Whenever Kiyomaro deals damage, if you have seven or more cards in hand, you gain 7 life.

Legendary Creature - Spirit

$1.49 $0.44 $0.26

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 13 Price: $113.97

Absolute Virtue

This spell can't be countered.
Flying
You have protection from each of your opponents. (You can't be dealt damage, enchanted, or targeted by anything controlled by your opponents.)

Legendary Creature - Warrior Avatar

$8.49 $6.42 $6.23

Boromir, Warden of the Tower

Vigilance
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.
Sacrifice Boromir: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

$7.99 $4.46 $3.56

Everybody Lives!

All creatures gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Players gain hexproof until end of turn. Players can't lose life this turn and players can't lose the game or win the game this turn.

Instant

$23.99 $20.87 $18.99

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$7.99 $6.64 $5.51

Hydroelectric Specimen

Flash
When this creature enters, you may change the target of target instant or sorcery spell with a single target to this creature.

Creature - Weird

Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240

$2.79 $1.23 $0.83

Orim's Chant

Kicker

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell.)
Target player can't cast spells this turn. If this spell was kicked, creatures can't attack this turn.

Instant

$7.99 $5.28 $4.44

Pippin, Guard of the Citadel

Vigilance, ward

: Another target creature you control gains protection from the card type of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything of that type.)

Legendary Creature - Soldier Halfling

$1.99 $1.76 $0.68

Platinum Angel

Flying
You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

Creature Artifact - Angel

$10.99 $11.50 $10.05

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$3.99 $3.32 $2.91

Sejiri Shelter

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Instant

Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37

$5.49 $2.57 $1.97

Silence

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.

Instant

$15.99 $10.18 $8.31

Silent Arbiter

No more than one creature can attack each combat.
No more than one creature can block each combat.

Creature Artifact - Construct

$14.99 $9.84 $9.75

Windborn Muse

Flying
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Creature - Spirit

$1.29 $0.75 $0.70

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 11 Price: $138.09

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.60 $0.40

Azorius Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.69 $0.36 $0.15

Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$6.49 $3.43 $3.07

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

White spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Spells your opponents cast cost

more to cast.

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$18.99 $18.93 $16.41

Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying

: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact - Thopter

$0.79 $0.40 $0.30

Pearl Medallion

White spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$11.99 $8.36 $8.33

Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$13.99 $8.63 $8.28

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay

. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Enchantment

$74.99 $59.33 $59.00

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $2.09 $1.53

Talisman of Progress

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.46 $0.31

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$5.49 $2.94 $2.64

Ramp

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Removal

Qty: 18 Price: $322.08

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

$3.99 $1.81 $1.90

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery

$0.79 $1.02 $0.33

Council's Judgment

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

Sorcery

$0.99 $1.15 $0.40

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.49 $4.34 $2.91

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

$39.99 $39.11 $38.50

Disenchant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$5.49 $3.43 $2.91

Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$79.99 $65.80 $63.56

Flare of Denial

You may sacrifice a nontoken blue creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Instant

$5.49 $3.59 $2.33

Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant

$59.99 $46.57 $46.89

Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Instant

$99.99 $68.09 $58.25

Hindering Light

Counter target spell that targets you or a permanent you control.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.59 $0.30 $0.15

Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker
Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "

: Add

" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.59 $0.34 $0.15

Louisoix's Sacrifice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a legendary creature or pay

.
Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.59 $0.35 $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 $1.62 $1.18

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.79 $1.76 $1.30

Wrath of God

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$9.49 $9.54 $3.28

Wrath of the Skies

You get X

(energy counters), then you may pay any amount of

. Destroy each artifact, creature, and enchantment with mana value less than or equal to the amount of

paid this way.

Sorcery

$3.99 $2.13 $0.62

Removal

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Stax

Qty: 3 Price: $17.27

Dovescape

(

can be paid with either

.)
Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, counter that spell. That player creates X 1/1 white and blue Bird creature tokens with flying, where X is the spell's mana value.

Enchantment

$4.99 $6.51 $3.43

Rest in Peace

When this enchantment enters, exile all graveyards.
If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Enchantment

$2.79 $1.12 $0.53

Teferi, Time Raveler

Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.
+1: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
−3: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Legendary Planeswalker - Teferi

$9.49 $7.19 $6.25

Stax

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Tutor

Qty: 4 Price: $79.96

Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant

$47.99 $39.30 $34.38

Long-Term Plans

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card third from the top.

Instant

$5.49 $5.59 $5.01

Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant

$21.99 $18.11 $15.71

Solve the Equation

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$4.49 $3.46 $2.96

Tutor

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Untap

Qty: 3 Price: $14.27

Aphetto Alchemist

: Untap target artifact or creature.
Morph

(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for

. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature - Human Wizard

$4.49 $2.58 $2.06

Ioreth of the Healing House

: Untap another target permanent.

: Untap two other target legendary creatures.

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

$1.79 $3.84 $3.63

Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset

+1: Choose up to one target artifact, up to one target creature, and up to one target land. Untap the chosen permanents you control. Tap the chosen permanents you don't control. You gain 2 life.
−2: Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
−7: You get an emblem with "Untap all permanents you control during each opponent's untap step" and "You draw a card during each opponent's draw step."

Legendary Planeswalker - Teferi

$7.99 $5.08 $3.64

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $951.06

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Avg Mana Value: 2.97Total Mana Value: 202.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.97Total Mana Value: 202.00

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